Deepa's Jottings
The Pee Gee lifestyle….
The sight of these posters, stuck all over one surface (and indeed, stuck all over all kinds of surfaces throughout our city) brought home to me that there are many people who live in circumstances »
Month: July 2017
Off Beat
Getting lost in Auroville and a chance meeting with two incredible Aussie travelers
The way life throws surprises at you! It was on July 29th evening I was standing all alone in some corner of Auroville, located at a distance of around 12 kilometres from the main town »
Peacocks, Palaces and Pavements
Where are you from? Thank you for asking, Bengaluru!
A day doesn’t go by that I am not asked at least a few times which country I’m from, for obvious reasons of course. My unnaturally bright blonde hair, translucent skin tone, nasal accent and »
Deepa's Jottings
Why do we need so much concrete?
I do not know which agency thinks that adding concrete structures to every small patch of greenery we have, is “developing” the park. This is in the Mini Forest, in J P Nagar 3rd Phase. »
Forward Bellandur
Bellandur Kere: a lake in 1989, now a cesspool
The following post was shared by Praveen Singh, a runner. I decided on a whim one fine April morning in 1989 to visit Bellandur lake and I clicked a full Konica roll worth of pictures. I »
Deepa's Jottings
Endangered species….
A greatly endangered species: the urban pedestrian. I just crossed Bannerghatta Road at great peril to my life. I waited about 10 mins for the traffic to ease, and still had to weave through vehicles »
Kasa-conscious
How HSR Layout got 300 saplings planted
Compared to Indiranagar and Koramangla, HSR Layout is a reasonably new layout and hence the tree cover is very sparse. With this in mind, the active citizens of the layout, the volunteers of HSR Citizen Forum »
Citizens for Bengaluru
Cancel the ward committees, says citizen group
Ward committees are not formed in a fair manner, which is why Citizens for Bengaluru group is opposing it. »
Deepa's Jottings
The Nano Graveyard, Kalena Agrahara, 15 Jul 2017
We went on a nature/birding walk to Kalena Agrahara on 15th July, 2017, and skirted the lake at IDBI Bank Layout. I was amazed to see several Nano cars parked, and rusting in the monsoon »
Forward Bellandur
Sarjapur Road school team win second place at First Lego League
A team of ninth and tenth grade students from Greenwood High called Flaming Phoenix, recently competed in First Lego League (FLL) International open championship in Bath, UK. We participated in the international round after advancing in »