From an ugly duckling to an almost graceful swan - that's the transformation of Ulsoor Lake. All that money - how much was it? About 450 lacs? - seems to be well spent! If it looks this neat in summer, I can imagine the lake with the tank full up, during the monsoon!

Real estate development is big business in Bangalore. Every time I'm there, some old building has vanished and another, invariably with chrome and glass, has taken its place! This is in Kamaraj Road, adjoining Commercial street.

Chrome and glass allright, with colourful - should I say flowerful - facade. No doubt, its meant to attract the fairer sex! Eva is the building name or is it the name of the designer store? No idea, for now.

This showroom, on 100 ft Road, Indiranagar, once housed a STD booth, a beauty parlour and a shop frying/selling potato chips. I used to make calls from there..it was just another faceless single storied building! In its place, seemingly overnight, is this Reebok showroom!!!! Its difficult even for me, without sputtering, to comprehend these sudden and awesome changes in the landscape that was Bangalore. I can only imagine for old-timers!


Amidst all these changes are old-world buildings that seem totally  incongruous! For God's sake and mine, I hope these are allowed to stay. L & G, the Mythic soceity building, on Nruputhunga Road.

Nope, I did not have the time to have lunch here but what a cute name for me, er, the restaurant??

I'm sure this is unintended but the photo arrangement makes it almost appear as if Kennedy is garlanded by shoes and leather paraphernalia. However, the fact is that in many shops in old Bangalore, there are 3 photos that are guaranteed present - Gandhiji, Nehru and Kennedy! Somebody tell me why he's so popular with old timers. Perhaps his sundry romances captured the feverish imagination of our guys back then?

A nice thing on the part of Bangalore City Corporation  to help redesign and get private sponsorship -
Cobbler Kiosks!

2 things that I could eat any/every day and in any quantity - corn ( boiled or charcoal-roasted ) and groundnuts. I freaked at this shop in Food World complex, MG Road, that sells corn - boiled, of course - in many different combinations using butter, chaat masala, coriander, chilli powder, other pulses etc. God, I could travel to Bangalore again to have just corn! LOL!

Ok, drum roll for the Superstar! Here's a pic of a newspaper report in Kannada about Superstar. Its says " Rajni style-a bere " meaning "Rajni has his own unique style! " Hmmmph, as if his fans don't know!

Here's a pic of the posters splashed at the entrance to Naga Theatre where Chandramukhi is running, houseful, since its opening. The collage features a pic of the Superstar from each of his earlier movies. Isn't this nice? I mean, how did they manage to get it all? High-tech are Superstar's fans in Bangalore!


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