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A bird’s-eye view of Metro through fish-eye lens
A panoramic view of the ongoing metro project near the Krishnarajendra (KR) market in Bangalore. In the background is the Victoria hospital. (Click on the picture to view a larger …
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 …
What lies beneath the soil millions have walked
The Vidhana Soudha, buitt during chief minister Kengal Hanumanthaiah‘s time, may be Bangalore’s most famous building, but in the mind’s eye of the common Kannadiga, it is an area named …
Pay attention. You’ll soon be zipping through it.
It gets dark and it sounds different when the Bangalore metro passes through a tunnel from the arts college towards the civil court. But before that happens, some worthy souls …
What goes on behind the boards at Minsk Square
It is difficult not to get exasperated while negotiating the bottlenecks that the metro rail project in Bangalore creates every morning. But few, if any, have the time or the …
If only you could do this to the Vidhana Soudha…
Photographers at tourist spots like the Eiffel Tower or the Taj Mahal prod visitors to pinch their fingers in such a way as to make it seem as if you …
All that glitters is not always what you think it is
Not a gold mine, just work afoot on the Namma Metro project at Minsk Square in Bangalore on Monday evening. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News Also view: The namma Metro photo …
Since government work alone is not god’s work
Some of Bangalore’s hardest working men, workers on the Namma Metro project, take a breather near the Vidhana Soudha, the headquarters of some of Karnataka’s you-know-who. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News …
What’s in a name? A train service? A megastore?
Not a new logo for the Bangalore metro, just construction work happening for the railway project outside the German shop-for-shopkeers in Yeshwanthpur. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News Also view: The complete …
Several feet under, a few tired feet up at mid-day
As the world zooms around them, seemingly unaware and unmindful of their sweat and toil, workers of the Namma Metro project catch a breath at their worksite at the Kempe Gowda …
Hydrogen, oxygen and a world of difference
As a mini-City gets built in front of (and under) the temporary address of those who shamelessly glug water out of bottles when millions of those who elected them go …
When Bangaloreans were sleeping last night…
It looks all neat and clean from the outside when the trains start plying, but plenty goes into getting a City ready for the metro. On Tumkur road in Bangalore …
The way to the top is never very easy or smooth
It doesn’t look half as messy when it is ready to ride. But there’s more below the escalator than meets the eye, as workers on the Namma Metro project slog …
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 …
Namma Metro as a study of the Indian psychology
Be it Delhi then or Bangalore now, there is something about the metro rail that seems to do something to us as a people. There is a sense of pride, …
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 …
After all, a metro station doesn’t open every day
On the night of the morning before Namma Metro rolls out, the M.G. Road station looks all decked up and ready to go as young and old file past to …
Namma Metro as the metaphor of ‘Avara’ Avarice
Illegal mining scams, denotification scams, land grabbing scams, site allotment scams…. For a State that makes much of its nela (land) and jala (water), it is no surprise that all …
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 …
Has the BJP lost all sense of shame in Karnataka?
If a photograph is worth a thousand metaphors, this is it. On the face of it, the cranes, the excavators and the barricades show the backbending work on the Bangalore …
Why on earth does Bangalore Metro look so ugly?
It is difficult for anybody who has seen or used the Delhi Metro to not wonder at how uninviting its Bangalore counterpart, or sections of it which are ready, is …
On top down under, a tale of a work in progress
As the Namma Metro project takes shape in front of our eyes, two contrasting images from two contrasting locations in Bangalore. The first, from in front of the pristine Vidhana …
If only someone could do this to save our State
On a day when the disgraceful nataka in Karnataka got even more disgraceful—with god’s own party showing how bereft it is of ethics and values in clinging on to power …
“No free left” for residents of a famous highrise
Like an amoeba that changes shape even as you watch it, the barricades of Namma Metro shift and move as you go past it. Suddenly, old familiar roads are no-go …
Remember the helmets when it rains (or shines)
As the date for the rollout of Namma Metro nears, workers fix the roof at the Byappanahalli station, in Bangalore on Monday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News *** The Namma Metro …