Posted on November 4th, 2010 by Chitra
At the Rishi Valley campus (about the visit in the previous post), as we started our little trek up to the sunset point of ‘asthachal’, the daughter and I spotted 2 big frangipani trees. We could also see that many of the beautiful flowers had fallen on the ground.
Our joy knew no bounds. Really, there […]
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Posted on May 7th, 2010 by Chitra
So, along the Manjarabad fort wall are little minarets from which one can look at the vast landscape through the slit like openings. The tunnel like passageways that lead to these little minarets are short in height and are dark.
You will get a sense of that from the first pic, where I have already gone […]
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Posted on January 8th, 2009 by Chitra
This post is not going to be easy for me to write. I lost my father a couple of weeks ago to his prolonged illness caused by the metastasized prostate cancer. Diagnosed at an advanced stage 6.5 years ago, it has been a long hard battle for all of us. At the time of diagnosis, […]
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Filed under: cancer, Alternate Medicine, personal, Family, Chitra, Children, R2I
Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Chitra
The 2 brands that my young children always manage to recognise, irrespective of where they see them, are the Kingfisher airlines and Shahrukh Khan - yes, he is a celebrity, but the way they identify him is the way you would identify a brand.
It so happened that we took a Kingfisher airlines […]
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Filed under: Kids, Kingfisher airlines, Family, Children
Posted on April 7th, 2008 by Chitra
The restaurant Hallimane, in Malleswaram is known for its true Karnataka cuisine. We have been there a few times times for lunch and snacks and have liked the way they try and keep the taste simple and authentic. For Ugadi, Karnataka’s New Year, the restaurant announced that it was offering a Ugadi spread yesterday and […]
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Filed under: tradition, Karnataka, vegetarian, authentic cuisine, ugadi '08, karnataka cuisine, Ugadi, Malleswaram, Life, Simple R2I Luxuries, Family, bangalore living, Hallimane, Bangalore