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Blog Category: Arts and Culture

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Rang De Basanti at Gayatri Vihar, 260109

January 26, 2009 Deepa Mohan

Pankaj Kothari is a well-known Bangalore caterer, and once a year, he brings Kaushik Kothari and his orchestra, the Golden Greats, to Bangalore to stage Rang De Basanti, which stages several evenings of old Hindi »

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Chitra Santhe at Chitra Kala Parishath

January 26, 2009 Deepa Mohan

For the past few years, Chitra Kala Parishath (CKP) has been organizing an annual art event, Chitra Santhe (Art Fair) in and around the CKP campus and its environs. It has become a fairly important »

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Perhaps my last visit…..

January 22, 2009 Deepa Mohan

I went to M G Road on work for Clean and Green today, and decided to visit India Coffee House as well…. This part of Bangalore heritage seems doomed to go into the history pages »

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Kite in the evening sky….

January 20, 2009 Deepa Mohan

We were participating the Bangalore Bird Race, and had gone to Madivala Lake right at the end to see what water birds we could spot; but a "kite" (not a Black or Brahminy Kite!) caught »

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A Gem in the Bustle….

December 21, 2008 Deepa Mohan

Right in the middle of the rush and hustle of St Mark’s Road, I spotted it…a "gem of purest ray serene"…but not in the "unfathom’d caves of ocean", but right in the centre of this »

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Ragigudda Temple Hanumath Jayanthi…mini mela

December 9, 2008 Deepa Mohan

The Ragigudda Temple, Jayanagar 9th Block, is celebrating the Hanumath Jayanthi (birthday of Hanuman or Anjaneya) from the 3rd of December. The area around the temple has been cordonned off to traffic and several stalls »

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Art in Unlikely Places

December 9, 2008 Deepa Mohan

I was walking down Jayanagar 9th block when I saw this really beautiful work of art. Its function is to keep people from bumping into the glass, but the artist in the person entrusted with »

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The Shankar Mahadevan concert

December 2, 2008 Deepa Mohan

After a long time, I went to attend a concert in the centre of town. Shankar Mahadevan, Sivamani, Zakir Hussain and Selvaganesh were playing/singing, and it would be interesting, I thought. I did, also, get »

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A young demonstrator

November 9, 2008 Deepa Mohan

Amongst the many images and impressions at that I saw and experienced at the "Namma Raste, Namma Ooru" walk on Sunday, 9th November 2008, was the picture of this tiny tot; She didn’t seem to »

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Why I am participating in the Namma Raste, Namma Ooru Walk

November 3, 2008 Deepa Mohan

With regard to the tree-felling and road-widening that is happening now…..we are against *indiscriminate* use of this facility, that’s all. The point is, that cutting down trees is irreversible, so what we are saying is, »

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