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At Anil Kumble circle, a sharp googly to KSCA
Although there is a lot that is similar between the two, there is one key difference between the Delhi Metro and the Bangalore Metro. It is not something that is …
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 …
Do not try this at home (if you have a few bogies)
As D-day nears for Namma Metro to really become ours, new coaches arrive by road at the Byappanahalli metro base, to be picked up by cranes and placed on track …
Relax, it’s not the dress code for Namma Metro
Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa tries on the traditional Assamese hat, the jaapi, at the inauguration of the State pavilion at the BJP national executive meeting, in Guwahati on Saturday. …
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. …
The giant violin-box hanging above ‘Parades’
A gaggle of eagles take a bird’s eye-view of construction of the metro railway station in front of what used to be Plaza theatre. The first phase of Namma Metro, …
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 …
Yes, it’s for real, and it’s purple and off-white
A visitor checks out a model of the Namma Metro train displayed for the public on M.G. Road in Bangalore on Thursday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News *** The Namma Metro …
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 …
Oh god, what have they done to my M.G. Road
For a future generation, which doesn’t have to wrestle with memories of the past, it won’t matter, of course. But this, briefly, was how the magical promenade on Mahatma Gandhi …
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 …
Not a picture that will make it to Lonely Planet
A cluster of temporary shacks of the unsung heroes in the dreams of Bangaloreans—workers of the Namma Metro project—stands against the backdrop of Bangalore’s most expensive piece of real estate, …
When akrama becomes sakrama, a pralaya is next
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Ajji steadied herself, holding on to the towel rack, while the rain waters that had gushed in to the bathroom, swirled around her. I lifted her and …
Only a low-angle shot can convey its great girth
A once tall and full-grown tree, living and breathing and nourishing all around it, is reduced to a number near the Visvesvaraya Tower on Raj Bhavan Road in Bangalore, to …
Amar, Akbar Anthony. Or, Ram, Robert, Rahim.
The accidents on the Delhi Metro project have raised serious questions over worker (and public) safety, and somewhat clouded a proud infrastructure success. Unmindful of all that, three unsung heroes …
Lots of work overground for an underground rail
Bar-benders go about fixing the fences for the Namma Metro rail project, near the Vidhana Soudha in Bangalore on Saturday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News Also read: The unsung heroes in …
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 …
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