Articles by Poornima Kannan

There have been quite a few articles recently on disappearing footpaths (or sidewalks), illegal speed breaks etc - so I took these pictures as a pun on BBMP (our favourite punching bag). To their credit, they do good work (airport road is a shining example), but poor planning throws a lot of problems for the public.Since the construction started at the junction to RT Nagar on Bellary Road, the commuters take the extended roads on the side. The distance is about half a kilometre - with no pedestrian walkways, footpaths or even a proper tarred road. Speed breaks? The gravel…

When can we truly 'fly over'?I hate the word flyover. After crawling for half an hour to cross a few yards near the Yestwantpur junction - where a 'flyover' construction is underway - the BBMP mocks at me by saying 'Construction is in progress. Go Slow'. There must be a grammatical error here - the word 'Slow' should be the first word in the sentence. Is there any flyover in Bangalore on which we can literally 'flyover'? If it were not in any stage of construction, there would be a traffic jam on it. Its more practical if these extended…

When can we truly 'fly over'?I hate the word flyover. After crawling for half an hour to cross a few yards near the Yestwantpur junction - where a 'flyover' construction is underway - the BBMP mocks at me by saying 'Construction is in progress. Go Slow'. There must be a grammatical error here - the word 'Slow' should be the first word in the sentence. Is there any flyover in Bangalore on which we can literally 'flyover'? If it were not in any stage of construction, there would be a traffic jam on it. Its more practical if these extended…

Most of you would have planned a holiday this long weekend. But are you leaving lesser carbon footprints? Here's an interesting quiz to test your green knowledge - Save the EarthI took the quiz and scored just 50%, however learnt a lot from the facts window that explains after each attempt. You can also set up a quiz question by clicking on the ‘Add a Question' window, embed this quiz in your blog or email it to a friend. ⊕

Most of you would have planned a holiday this long weekend. But are you leaving lesser carbon footprints? Here's an interesting quiz to test your green knowledge - Save the EarthI took the quiz and scored just 50%, however learnt a lot from the facts window that explains after each attempt. You can also set up a quiz question by clicking on the ‘Add a Question' window, embed this quiz in your blog or email it to a friend. ⊕

Unashamedly copying the lines from a Bollywood movie, it's certainly how I felt when I saw the huge rocks of Ramanagara. Going for a drive with friends on the smooth Bangalore-Mysore Highway towards Kamat Yatri Nivas, we stopped a while near the giant boulders on the outskirts of Ramanagara - a town 50kms away from Bangalore. Here are some of the pictures. Known as Closepet during the British rule, it was renamed as Ramanagara after Independence (after the Rama temple at Ramadevara Betta). Though Ramanagara has been important town in history and also famous for its silk farms, it was the…

Unashamedly copying the lines from a Bollywood movie, it's certainly how I felt when I saw the huge rocks of Ramanagara. Going for a drive with friends on the smooth Bangalore-Mysore Highway towards Kamat Yatri Nivas, we stopped a while near the giant boulders on the outskirts of Ramanagara - a town 50kms away from Bangalore. Here are some of the pictures. Known as Closepet during the British rule, it was renamed as Ramanagara after Independence (after the Rama temple at Ramadevara Betta). Though Ramanagara has been important town in history and also famous for its silk farms, it was the…

Sorry for the late post. I have been doing a lot of dashing through the streets this week to fulfil pending social commitments rather than the kind of travel I'd prefer. Today is the first real day to put my feet up, relax and wander through the web world. For those who want to travel and cannot (inflation, blasts etc), here's an interesting link I found on one of the blogs I frequent. Photographer Tito Dupret undertook this epic journey across the world in 2001, when he read that Taliban were destroying Buddhist temples in Afghanistan. He started a monumental…

Sorry for the late post. I have been doing a lot of dashing through the streets this week to fulfil pending social commitments rather than the kind of travel I'd prefer. Today is the first real day to put my feet up, relax and wander through the web world. For those who want to travel and cannot (inflation, blasts etc), here's an interesting link I found on one of the blogs I frequent. Photographer Tito Dupret undertook this epic journey across the world in 2001, when he read that Taliban were destroying Buddhist temples in Afghanistan. He started a monumental…

After a long hiatus, I had gone out with friends to watch the Aamir Khan produced movie 'Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na' at Lido Mall recently. It was first time I stepped into the new Lido. Just like the movie which had a lot of fresh faces, the theatre looked mint fresh too. Who could have visualized that the land that housed the old Lido was so vast? The colourful and innovative plastic moulded chairs at the food court, the Noodle Bar lounge, the new Cinemas with comfortable chairs that have cola holders - the only downside to this is…