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Dasara at Home

Dasara (Navarathri) has just concluded and here is a small video of Dasara doll arrangements at house. More than Dasara it was known to us as ‘Gombe habba’ (ಗೊಂಬೆ ಹಬ್ಬ) back when we were kids. For all the ten days during the festival, 50 to 60% of our living room used to get occupied with the dolls. Below is a small video shot by my sister of this year’s festivities (since there is no narration, I’ve tried my level best to explain the arrangements below the video) – Top most step has ‘pattada gombe’ (ಪಟ್ಟದ ಗೊಂಬೆ) – depicting the royal family of Mysore. Next two steps goes for the Gods […]

A morning walk in Lalbagh

After a long, long time I visited Lalbagh botanical garden. Went for walk with two of my friends on a Saturday morning. It was buzzing with activities, people of all age groups, few with family, few with friends, few alone walking, jogging, running around to keep themselves fit. Here are some random shots from Lalbagh –

Neenaanaadre Naaneenena

Neenaanaadre Naaneenena (in Kannada) translates to – “If you are me, then am I you?“. Its a Kannada version of William Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors“. Scripted by S. Surendranath in Kannada on the same theme with a slight change in characters. Happened to watch the drama ‘Neenaanaadre Naaneenena’ in Rangashankara yesterday. A total laughter riot for complete 2 hours – one obsessed to detective novels, other with Shayars, anohter is a deaf, fourth sings a song with every dailogue. Wonderful performance by Srinvas Prabhu, Sihikahi Chandru, Jahangir and others. Would love to wahtc it again. To add to this was company of taleneted Mukta balaga members – Pransesh Sir, Usha, […]

MOV A, B

Examination time, as usual all of us were busy in collecting notes from others and getting it photo copied. Somehow we had reached the end of 5th semester. We had a very wide variety of subjects in that semester to name few from interesting subject Digital Signal Processing to wacky Control systems to tricky Microprocessor to boring Telecommunication and Switching. Soon classes were over and we got the time table as usual rumors were coming like exams will be postponed by one week or students of that college are going to start strike tomorrow etc. As usual we had lab examinations before theory papers. So started reading […]