Mysorean

25th July 2008, Hotel Leela Palace, Bangalore, 3.00PM
I was there attending a conference when my colleague flashed the screen of his blackberry at me which had breaking news from BBC: “Bangalore, IT Capital of India, rocked by serial bomb blasts”
I was not so sure about what to do next if at all anything was necessary […]

Why does anyone build something new? Usually because the old one had developed certain problems that could not be solved by incremental fixes. So we now move from HAL airport to Bengaluru International Airport (BIAL). Let us capture the problems that were faced at the HAL airport before examining the BIAL airport. This is purely […]

In one of my posts, we had a discussion about the culture of Mysore. Vatsan compared it with Chennai’s culture and said:
Mysore will become another silicon valley and lose its identity :), im pretty sure.
Chennai retains its identity because the labour working in IT firms is largely frm in and around TN, and chennai has […]

First they changed the names of the prominent cities in the state. Bangalore to Bengaluru, Mysore to Mysooru, Hubli to hubballi and so on and so forth. People thought it was uncool, would spoil the brand image of these places and some even went to the extent of saying that it was a political move.
What move? What […]

Mr. K. Sriram, Chairman, Builders Association of India, Mysore Centre, replies to my post via email:
“Your point on Devanahalli airport is well taken, but it is not as far as you are making it out to be. As a regular visitor to the site I would say that it takes 1 hour to get there […]

The new Bangalore airport that has been proposed at Devanahalli is far away from every inhabited place in Bangalore. It becomes just too far for someone just taking a regional flight of one hour. And the flight timing for most of the cities from Bangalore will be well within a couple of hours. It is […]

As you know I was in Bangalore over the last weekend. Celebrated the Independence Day by listening to the inspiring speech of Dr. Manmohan Singh.
One of my cousins wanted to go out to a Mall that had opened newly in the city. The ‘Garuda’ mall at Residency Road. Looks like a replica of the “Forum” […]