Anti-corruption

Got to know from a friend about a website -5th pillar.

When everyone cribs about corruption and does nothing to eradicate it, This seemed to a good initiative by some citizens.

Unless individuals get together and fight for themselves, no one is going to help them out. ( God helps those who help themselves).

More efforts in this direction would help us progress into a better society.

Ganesh Chathurti

Ganesh Chaturti wishes to everyone.

The festival season begins in most part of India with Ganesh chaturti. One of the most colourful festivals celebrated throughout India.

In the 90's--It was only small clay idol ganesha's ( for worship at home)that we could get to see in the place we lived. We used to carry small wooden planks to get Ganesha to our homes. A colourful umbrella was also bought for our Ganesha .

There were some kids at those Ganesha shops who would try to hard sell their "Erukka" garland made for the lord.

When I am not at my place this year , It really makes me nostalgic of those days....!

Link for prayers abd info on Ganesh Chaturti.

http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/articles/ganesha_chaturthi_legends_prayers.htm#6.0

Fall of a wall

It started raining heavily this evening and water started clogging on the road. The road in which I stay is a feeder road to the Bannerghatta road in Bangalore. Normally, its crowded and you can imagine the situation when it rains!!!

When the rain stopped, the water on the road got cleared. I thought , I will browse for sometime. When I heard a big THUD........ Was shocked......what would it be????

As I got out of my house, I could here water flowing fast. ....Looked down.......Whole of the basement was gushing with water..The compound wall between our flat and the one on the next road had broken.....so water rushed into our apartment. Was wondering about the quality of construction in bangalore....these should be hardly 5 year old flats!!!!.. Thank god no one was near the wall when it broke....

People started getting out, to get the cars out of our flats and park the cars safely outside our premises!!!!

Had the opportunity to (over)hear someone who has been staying in the flat ever since it was built. Got to know the 'fall of the wall ' is occurring the second time.....GOSHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

God only can save us.!!

On the roads......... in Bangalore

I think being on the roads in Bangalore......is one of worst thing that can happen to your life. During the peak hours it gets clustered with everyone on the road competing for whatever space available. You see a lot of single person driven cars moving around, Jammed packed buses competing for space, Bikers on the platform ( yes, on the sidewalks of the road leaving no space for anyone to walk) , Auto wallas in their usual form.

Human behaviour stoops to very low levels on the road. It is almost a war and nobody damn cares about others. Nobody realises that they are doing a mistake !!!.

Bangalore may take the pride of hosting many multinationals which have come over here to tap the knowledge and skills of the people. On the roads you don't see anyone using their commonsense even!!!.

We can't blame the government alone for what's happening. We should bring about improvements by encouraging car pooling and enhancing public transport (may be introduce more Volvos and BMTC buses!).

Wondering what will happen to the city in a decade's time. !!! if things are OK then that's what we should call a MIRACLE.

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