EARNING LIVELIHOOD

23rd September 2015
The morning when I normally browse (read) newspaper, from the comforts of my living room, I am hearing couple of people singing Bhajans on the street, accompanied by Harmonium and Tabla. I go outside to see a group of four people singing and playing....

Dressed as Hanuman

They have talent, energy, health and enthusiasm.... they can look for a suitable job for earning their livelihood, but they choose easy or innovative method to earn or dedicate themselves as disciples of Lord SriRamachandra.....
However, the group of Four, three of dressed in the costumes of Hanuman, face painted , one with a harmonium, and the fourth with Tabla, singing HariBhajans nicely, with harmonium and Tabla players with proper synchronization with the songs, walking on the streets..... apparently expecting money from the residents.

Contribution....

I am sure they must be going round different parts of the city, choosing one area per day. They had our share of contribution from my wife Nalini.....

written Wednesday 23Sept2015

BEECHI HOUSE - KANNADA DRAMA

Beechi House is Kannada Comedy Drama by DRAMATRIX group, presented at K H KalaSoudha, HanumanthNagar, NammaBengaLuru on Saturday, 19th Sept 2015.
The play directed by RajendraKaranth, who also plays a lead role, along with KalaGangotri Kitti, SeethaKote,Raghavendra, SiddharthBhat and among others.

SEETHA KOTE

Gangadhar's(RajendraKaranth) house is "BeechiHouse", where he lives with his wife Uma (SeethaKote), daughter and two sons, who are extreme characters.
The play starts with Gangadhar's uncle Janardhan (Kiitti)visiting his house, after twenty years, to attend daughter's wedding.

SCENES FROM THE PLAY

 The dialogues are with full of satire, humour and thought provoking. The wife dominates the house and the daughter also learns from the mother to belittle menfolk and wants to establish the superiority. The uncle who came for visit gets lost in the witty and humorous dialogues. The sons also, one act like a "Sanyasi" and other "Kranthikari" with appropriate dialogues.

KALAVIDARU

The famous author, BeeChi (actor) also comes on stage and narrates how life has to be lead, with all the difficulties.
The play depicts typical family life, at least some peoples homes.
BeeChi says, "The person who cracks jokes, has no right to laugh"
It was a good, entertaining drama presented by Dramatrix group.
written, Sunday, 20Sept2015

NANDI HILLS - VISIT

Saturday 12th September 2015

Suresh Cukkemane, Usha from Mysuru, and ourselves set of to see Nandi hills and around at 10 am. 

a distance of about 65 km from Bangalore, on the way to Hyderabad National Highway (NH7).
Nandi Hills or Nandidurg or Nandi Betta is an ancient hill fortress of situated in the Chikkaballapur district of Karnataka. This is a group of hills that lies at an average elevation of about 1,478 meters (4,851 feet) above the sea level.

BHOGA NANDEESHWARA TEMPLE

We stopped near DevanaHalli to see the Jain Temple construction going on and went up the hill, which in not a road, but a track. Huge Jain Thirkankar's temple in the process of construction and few buildings around. It is on the top of the hill and a pleasant wind blowing was sooper.
From there, we proceeded to Nandi Grama, half hour drive and reached BhogaNarasimha Temple at the foot of NandiHills.

@ SHRINGI THIRTHA

The Nandi BhogaNarasimha Temple in the village at the bottom of the hills was built by the Banas who ruled this region in the Ninth Century. This temple is an amalgam of different styles of temple building, because it was renovated by various dynasties that ruled this place.
The place is huge, twin temples, completely out of stone structure, believed to be 1300 years old. The pillars have carvings, beautiful water tank with steps all around and out side the temple, huge garden area, surrounded by veranda. It reminds of the golden era when celebrations, festivals must have going on for years. But now, abandoned and neglected.

NANDI HILLS

After spending an hour, further drive of half hour, we went up the hills, a tourist spot and there is an ancient temple of Yoga Nandeeswara, stone structure,  atop the hill. A fort was built during the period by the chieftains  of Chikkaballapur.  It was strengthened by Tippu Sultan. This fort was considered impregnable, it covers a vast area of 90 acres and soldiers could shoot from all directions without being seen and there is the famous “Tipu Drop”  a 600 metre cliff with a huge rock landing after the drop. Prisoners and convicts during Tipu’s reign were pushed off this cliff.
We spent about an hour and 3pm, feeling hungry, drove down the hill and had nice lunch at NandiUpahar, new hotel, presently clean and neat and serving delicious food.
We were back home BirthMane by 5pm, when UshaSuresh left for Mysuru.
written Sunday 13Sept2015

FOOD OUTLETS ON WHEELS

Wednesday 09September2015

KITCHEN

NammaBengaluru has become metropolitan city with no bounds for growth.  City growing in all directions and also the population. People from all over India come to Bengaluru with their families and settle here, for various reasons. Hence the growth in commerce and business.
Entrepreneurship of youngsters also taking new dimensions and food outlets are the focus on start ups. One such area is CAFE ON WHEELS.

STREETY TREATS

AUTO RIKSHA CONVERTED OUTLET

You have nice and neat medium sized van with kitchen facility for people to grab fast food. They stand on the roadside, near the van and wait 5 to 10 minutes for fresh fast food to be prepared. Bachelors, the families who like to eat outside on regular basis, prefer these kind of places.

DOSA CENTER

You get any type of food of your choice, burger, GobiManchuri, PaniPuru, PavBaaji, GelabiSamosa, GolGappa, and what not .... and TenderCoconut, SugarCane juice etc etc....
The photographs show the scene around the CoffeeBoard Park, Hebbala, NammaBenagluru in the evenings. Names are very catchy.... StreetyTreats, Kitchen, DosaCentre and more. 

KRISHNA SANDHANA - KANNADA DRAMA

Sunday September 6, 2015

In memory of "RangaKarmi'S" (Senior Drama Artists) Honna Shamaiyya and Actor KariBasavayya, DESI artists organized "DesiRangotsava2015"  on Sunday, 6th September 2015 at Ravindra Kalakshetra.

The program was from 9am to 9pm, consisting of three dramas, RangaGeethe, DasaraPada, FolkSongs and Felicitations.

KAURAVAS DURBAR

We went only at 3pm to see the ambiance and atmosphere, when the mythological drama "KRISHNA SANDHANA" was in progress. It's story from MahaBharatha, where SriKrishna is going to Kaurava's durbar, mediating to avert the war between Kauravas and Pandavas.

DUSHYASANA-DURYODHANA

VIDURA-SRIKRISHNA

BHEEMA-DRAUPADI

The play is full of songs, heavy music and shining costumes, matching with Kings and Royalties. The dialogues are massive and most of the songs are sung the actors on the stage. It is terrific amount of practice, perseverance and tenacity. Each one of them, DuryoDhana, Karna, Draupadi ,Shakuni, Vidura or SriKrishna..... were performing well.

The drama is could be very well enjoyed by the village crowd, when they sit and watch for 5-6 hours, appreciating the music, songs and kannada dialogues.

We watched for about two hours and left from the place.

I would like to appreciate the effort and interest by the "ChitraBimba" artists.

written Tuesday 08September2015

SHRI KRISHNA JANMASHTAMI 2016

Saturday 5th September 2015

ShriKrishna Janmashtami is celebrated as birth anniversary of Lord ShriKrishna., which falls on eight day (Ashtami) of Krishna Paksha, of Shravan month,  He is the eight son of Devaki and Vasudeav, believed to be born (according to scriptures) on 18th July 3228 BCE.

Celebrations include fasting, bhajans, worshiping Krishna, staying up late till midnight. pooja and various kinds of sweets and other offerings.

Laddu, Chakkuli and payasa

Pooja

Two different kinds of Laddus were prepared, chakkuli, payasa and avlakki and fruits were offered and it was time to eat and enjoy.

Sunday 06September2015

IPR LAWS - WORKSHOP

Sunday 30th Oct. 2015
Hotel Le Meridian, Bengaluru

Mr HariKrishna Holla, Advocate, of Holla Associates invited me to participate in a workshop on Intellectual Property Rights Law on Saturday 04July2015 at LeMeridien Hotel, Bengaluru.

PARTICIPANTS

It was quite an interesting workshop. The "Intellectual Property Rights" refers to the legal rights granted with a view to protect the creation of product by using one's intelligence. It consists of Trade Marks, Patents, Copyright and Designs.

The morning session was by Sri Ramakrishnan who spoke about the Intellectual Property and said whatever one knows must give it to others. He also spoke about the Law of Copyrights and Designs. this may be Literary, Dramatic, Musical, Photographing, Films, or Sound recording. One should register with copyright office.
Mr Muralidhar, Senior Advocate and an excellent speaker and a knowledgeable person spoke about the Patent Laws, which is a licence to Law Suit and is like owning an elephant.
Criteria for Patenting are:(NUNS)
1. Novelty - should have prior publication, pateneting and public use.
2. Utility - Capable of industrially applied, Subject to NTP, and yields same results each time.
3. Not Obviousness - Involve technical advance, Economic Significance, Involves features not obvious to the person skilled.
3. Statutory subject matter - Differs from country to country, India being the most restrictive, patent regime and invention falling within the ambit of Sec.3
In the Invention disclosure, the following are necessary:
1. Title
2. Area of Invention
3. Status of prior art
4. Problems with prior art
5. The type of problems you propose and how?
6. Advantages
7. Summary of inventions
8. Explanations of drawings.

The types of infringers  are: 1) Innocent 2) Willful/intentional  3) Contributory 4) Inducing
5) Irritating

Mr HariKrishna Holla

Mr Harikrishna Holla spoke about the Consumer Protection Act of 1986 to protect consumers. The laws are designed to prevent businesses that engage in fraud or specified unfair practices.
It can be

1)  Deficiency in service of a dentist or a lawyer
2) Deficiency is service by a lawyer or an auditor
3) Contractor or service provider
4) Car service centre
5) Negligence of any insurance company
6) Medical negligence
7) Dissatisfied with service of Banker
8) Performance with electronic gadgets
9)  Affected by Transport System
10) Victim of excessive pricing..... etc etc

BUFFET LUNCH, @LE MERIDIEN

On the whole, it was a useful and productive time spent, gaining knowledge on your rights.
Thanks Mr Holla for providing nice buffet lunch and Tea at the hotel.

written Wednesday 02September2015

RAGHAVENDRA SWAMY ARADHANE 2015

Sunday, 30th August 2015

AGCS LayOut, UttaraHalli

Every year the Raghavendra Swamy Temple everywhere celebrates the birth anniversary of the Great Saint Shri Guru Raghavendra Swamy as ARADHANE for three days.
1. Poorvaradhane
2. Madhyaradhane
3. Uttararadhane.

Special poojas , bhajans, musical programs, rathotsava held in all places in a grand scale and lot of people attend the program. Free grand lunch is provided to all who participate.

We attended Poorvaradhane program at AGCS layout, Uttarahalli Raghavendra Swamy temple on Sunday, 30th August 2015.

Grand lunch provided on table and chair with sweet, payasam and BisiBeleBath.

written Wednesday 02September2015