One reason why I don’t like Bangalore ..

.. there are NO seasons!!
Its hot for a week and then it starts raining incessantly!!! And just after the rains, the air is chilly enough to make you reach for that warm jacket …
I miss the pleasure of washing/sunning/drying the woolens in the beginning/end of the winter season. I miss waiting for the summers to [...]

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So, how do you usually spend your weekends?

For us, its a lazy start in the mornings, having friends over for lunch, going out to some eating-joint/shopping-mall and then back to home to watch some movie on the DVD..
Unfortunately, its the same every week, thanks to nowhere-to-go situation in Bangalore. The parks in the area where we stay are small, and there is [...]

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We voted -

- and now no one dare call us “Refugees” or “outsiders”!!!

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And it rained today..

After a long spell of hot and dry weather, finally there is some relief !!!  Its raining outside and what better way to celebrate it than by letting the cool shower hit your face and drench your soul!

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We are back!!

- to Bangalore, after a long and soothing stay at Solan!
And it is sooooooo hot over here … Its sad to see Bangalore turning into one of the cities I hated.

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What next?

After restricted timings for night-outs, dress codes enforced time and again, catching ‘couples in action’ , attacks on pub-goers, what would come next?
Just wondering – if someone catches me and my husband holding hands together in a mall, how would they decide whether we are just another couple violating the moral and social rules (and [...]

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No English please…..

And now, they have imposed this in Karnataka Assembly as well! Bus numbers, sign boards, school curriculum, Government offices, etc ..  what comes next? Would shopkeepers stop selling us stuff if we don’t ask in Kannada? How much time  would it take to reach insane levels, if it hasn’t by now? Why don’t they ‘educate’ [...]

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