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Monday, January 2nd, 2012
Wishing all of you a Happy New Year and a prosperous 2012. For the past few years a close group of friends, with families, spend some quality time together away from home for New Years. It is one evening I look forward to as I do enjoy the company of ...
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
On Karnataka Rajyotsava (Nov 1), a State holiday, we decided to take take a ride on the recently inaugurated Bangalore Metro. It is heartening to see the euphoria of Bangaloreans, most newspapers have been carrying the photos of Bangaloreans with wide smiles at the Metro station. Few have been celebrating ...
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Monday, April 4th, 2011
Bangalore Metro was supposed to have been inaugurated today, which is an auspicious day in Karnataka - Ugadi. I live very close to the upcoming Metro line, it didn't look ready for inauguration by any stretch of imagination.
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Saturday, December 26th, 2009
Long weekends are always good & bad news for me. Bangalore roads are wonderful to drive during long weekends. It is safe to assume a huge percentage of population goes out of Bangalore during holidays - mainly to Tamil Nadu, Andhra (united Andhra!), Kerala.
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
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We recently received our first traffic violation notice from Bangalore Traffic Police Department. The notice was printed neatly in a professional manner, which is rare for any govt notice.
Notice said I could pay the fine on http://www.bangaloreone.gov.in/ (they should make http://bangaloreone.gov.in/ a valid URL, it wasn't ...
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