Posts Tagged ‘Mysore’
My Cousin’s Wedding and Other Stories
Well, I made up the other stories part so you'd start reading, but I wouldn't hold it against you if you were to just close the window. So, on Saturday evening, I left Bangalore for Mangalore via train and returned on Monday morning. It had been almost two years since I had visited Mangalore, and that was in January 2007 for the wedding of a [...]
Tour of Nilgiris
The primary objective behind my picking up my cycle, aside from being über-cool and awesomer, was to use it as a means of commuting, because I want to exercise but I have no enthusiasm (a.k.a NED) to go to the gym, and cycling seems like the best option to save up on gymming as well as transport costs. My excuse for cycling is because I am [...]
The Wonderful World of Sargeant Thikanov
Before your mind goes off on random tangents, thinking of how I am writing fairytales surrounding the life and times of a mysteriously named Russian World War I soldier, stop. Thika, in Kannada, refers to one's gluteal region, a.k.a Kundi as do other more detailed graphic words that I'm not going to mention simply because I am not too keen on [...]
Raghu Dixit Unplugged @ Swagath Garuda Landmarks (16th November 08)
It was quite a while since I'd seen Raghu Dixit perform live, even though I'd had a chance to pick his album up (and have him open the cover and autograph it thereafter, heh) and listen to it. The autographing was around the time I interviewed him for a cover story for RSJ, in April this year, which finally didn't happen for reasons I'm not [...]
Ek Do Teen
While I was sitting at home on the sofa, staring away into the piercing green eyes of the inflatable alien hanging from our ceiling, a random thought suddenly struck me. The song Ek Do Teen from the movie Tezaab just came to mind. The song begins with Madhuri Dixit's character talking to the crowd, and when they keep chanting her name (Mohini, [...]
Mysore Rock Fest Day 2
After my previous post on the fact that every band needs a sound engineer, I decided to check out the second day of the Mysore Rock fest which was being held at Purple Haze here. Firstly, hats off to Anbumani Ramadoss for his smoking rule. The two pubs I've been to since the ban came into effect at the start of this month have provided good [...]
Every Band Needs a Sound Engineer
Every band, big or small needs a sound engineer. This painfully obvious fact struck me like a thunderbolt (ok, I am exaggerating. It sort of just came to mind arbitly) when I was at a pub gig in Mysore. For those unaware - yes, Mysore has pubs. Shocking but true. Sadly, it is going the Bangalore way, and while the ban on live music in places [...]
Redifining Hospitality
Atithi Devo Bhava Guest is God-like, or so said someone who had a thing for hospitality, and someone else wrote it down in ancient times and it seems to have stuck around for ages as an integral part of our culture thereafter, until now. These thoughts stuck me when some guy from my office who lives close to me said he'd drop in to my place, [...]
