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Do glaciers move faster than Bangalore Metro?
Two years on, and M.G. Road to Byappanahalli is still the only metro link in Bangalore that is up and running. Elsewhere, like here opposite the Vidhana Soudha and High …
Is M.G. Road the world’s longest mausoleum?
Bangalore’s most prominent thoroughfare, Mahatma Gandhi road alias M.G. Road, looks more and more like Bangalore’s longest mausoleum, one iconic establishment after another dropping dead or lying comatose at the …
As they say, ‘Picture abhi baaki hain, dost’
Namma Metro is here, but it is not the full thing; in fact, it is not even ten per cent of the full thing. It was just the trailer. While …
Pujaris, Pudaris & the People on Namma Metro
Four years, six months and five days after work began on it, the first official train of Namma Metro rolls out, to the coconut shells of the priests, the wave …
Certainly won’t be inaugurated by Yediyurappa
Even as Bangaloreans warm up to a new launch date, this time September, a Namma Metro train swerves towards KSCA stadium at Anil Kumble circle on M.G. Road, on a …
In the darkness, a ray of light at 19:12:30 hours
First they said the trial run would begin on Monday, 24 January 2011. Then they said it wouldn’t. But Namma Metro slithered silently along Mahatma Gandhi road, well ahead of …
From the BEML end, right arm over the wicket
As D-day approaches for the launch of metro rail services in Bangalore, a worker takes a breather as the track awaits finishing touches at Anil Kumble circle on M.G. …
It’s still not here, but it’s kind of already here
Even as the excavators pile up debris as tall as the public utility buildings Visvesvaraya Towers for the Namma Metro project, weekend travellers take a trip to nowhere in the …
4 cars, 3 SUVs, 8 bikes and 16 autorickshaws
Devotees throng the ISKCON temple on Chord road in Rajajinagar in Bangalore on Sunday, overlooking the Namma Metro project, as the gopuras of two other temples in Mahalakshmi layout loom …
Saturdays, girlfriends, popcorn & other memories
An iconic movie house on an iconic road in Bangalore presents a picture-perfect view to passers-by at the front as machines rip through its innards at the rear. Plaza Talkies …
When coffee tasting gets a whole new meaning
India Coffee House, the pokey little hole on M.G. Road, next to the offices of Deccan Herald, has been shifted to Church Street. But addicts and aficionados of caffeine still …
The unsung heroes in the dreams of Bangaloreans
Unknown and unacknowledged, soldiers from strange lands speaking strange tongues, toil away on the metro rail project on M.G. Road in Bangalore on Wednesday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News
Every picture tells a tale. Babu’s can fill a tome.
Unlike India’s big cities, “happening” Bangalore has had a stunning inability to inspire writers and movie makers. Mention Bombay and a welter of books springs to mind, only the latest …
Life is the chief cause of death. Do we ban life?
S.R. RAMAKRISHNA writes from Bangalore: Fashion designers and DJs are hardly the sorts you would expect to see at a protest, but they came out on M.G. Road on Sunday …
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