Posts : Culture

Kannada Baralla to Kannada Barutte - Learning Kannada is the Hot Trend in Namma Bengaluru

Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 1-AUG-2013

Cafe Coffee Day, Mac Donald and other yippee outlets are full of youngsters trying to learn Kannada, understand Kannada and talk Kannada in their own yuppee style.  report at:

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Bangalore is Mine - 16-JAN-2013

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An evening with North-East Friends - Sunday, 7th Oct, 4.30PM, YWCA, Koramangala

murali772 - 6-OCT-2012

What ails us?

srinidhi - 22-AUG-2012

IDS put up a link recently about the trust deficit in Indians...more here

Over-milking the holy cows

murali772 - 17-MAY-2012

If the statue (Ambedkar) is not shifted, the TBMs will have to be dismantled again at Vidhana Soudha station, towards the Vikasa Soudha gate, and parts have to be taken by shafts and launched from General Post Office end; the distance between these two stations being only a few meters would mean time and cost overrun.

Boycott vehicles with defective number plates

murali772 - 28-APR-2012

While Dr Saleem, the Addl Commissioner, Traffic, has stated (check this) that he will be taking up an intensive drive against 'defective number plates' (the biggest issue here of course pertaining to the Kannada number plates - very few people want to identify it as such, sinc

no official state flag

murali772 - 6-DEC-2011

Karnataka has no official state flag and the government has no intention of having one. The red and yellow flag that flutters in the state, especially on November 1, the Kannada Rajyotsava day, has no official sanctity.

Preservation of heritage buildings

murali772 - 8-SEP-2011

The demolition of  the house of renowned novelist R K Narayan which began here on Monday to make way for an apartment  complex came to a halt with the Mysore City Corporation (MCC) proposing to conserve it as a heritage monument. The MCC will initiate further action; until then, it has ordered suspension of all work.

Some handy tourism stats - entry count at Hampi etc

silkboard - 8-AUG-2011

Its generally pretty hard to get stats on domestic tourism. The subject needs to be of high interest to us as many believe that domestic tourism is one of the things that can help close the urban rural, or big city-hinterland gap. And we are talking Karnataka, with solid tourism potential, and huge base of Bangalore to tap into.

Japan, take a bow ... sharing an article

S.H.U.L. - 26-MAR-2011

Wanted to share this article from TOI Sunday times 20th March 2011 Japan, take a bow for grace under fire, from Amrit Dhillon, TNN.