Bandish Projekt

Aug 262012
 
Bandish Projekt

We attended the performance by Bandish Projekt in our apartment complex in PBEL City organized as part of Hydourite. The Bandish Projekt is a fusion of Electronica dance music with urban folk. It was an electric performance with sufi singer Runa Rizvi, accompanied by flute of Shreyas Dave and Mayur Narvekar on instruments and keyboards. Mayur, Runa and Shreyas It had rained heavily during the day and I was not sure if the performance will happen. Fortunately thanks to the weather gods by evening the sky was clear and we had a pleasant evening. The lawns of the compound [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Dasha-Avatara The Dance Of The Sands

Aug 192012
 
Dasha-Avatara The Dance Of The Sands

Dr.Anupama Kylash- The Danseuse  I was raised on a healthy staple diet of mythological sagas by my grandparents, which was later supplemented by Uncle Pai’s “Amar Chitra Katha”. Then came the idiot box with a single mission to dumb down the viewers and yours truly meekly obliged. Hence slowly losing touch with all the stories one has heard and read as a child, reaching to the point that one forgot that the original superman was our very own Hanuman who crossed the ocean many millennia ago in search of the beloved of lord Rama.   Any ways enough of my [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Freedom Ride- Bicycles For Freedom

Aug 172012
 
Freedom Ride- Bicycles For Freedom

As I have written in past philanthropy  in India normally means going to temple to donate soiled currency notes or install fans on the ceilings of Dharam Shala in a  holy town like Benaras. Some more adventurous ones will get a bench installed in a park with the names of their seven generations painted on bench to forever kiss the bottoms of the people using the bench.(Why do people do that to their ancestors?) Some companies have  a robust CSR or corporate social responsibility initiative which in many cases is just an annual photo op kind of event. Tried My Hand At Panning Shots So [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Durgam Cheruvu With GHAC Nature

Aug 152012
 
Durgam Cheruvu With GHAC Nature

Rediscovering Nature in the IT Corridor of Hyderabad at Durgam Cheruvu The Birders at Durgan Cheruvu Durgam Cheruvu was named because it meant Secret Lake and was very difficult to both find and reach. During the times of Qutub Shahi Sultans the lake was surrounded by jungle so thick that except for few locals nobody knew of its existence. Its water was pure and potable, so the sultans built secret system of pipe lines to take the water from the lake to the Golconda Fort around  10 KM away to the top of the fort using a very innovative [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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View From Our Balcony II

Aug 112012
 
View From Our Balcony II

I have been travelling for some time both for business and for clicking pictures. All this while I have been so busy that did not have time to look out of balcony of our apartment. Is is not surprising that one travels to far off places to click pictures but totally ignores beauty around us?  Today morning was a especially beautiful day and I decided to stand in balcony for some time with my camera. Hyderabad has been blessed with really good monsoon this year and the surroundings to our apartment has changed totally. The Sufi Shrine The Blooms In Garden [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Bidar Fort and Gurudwara Nanak Jheera

Aug 102012
 
Bidar Fort and Gurudwara Nanak Jheera

Bidar in Karnataka is a sleepy, dusty town about 140 KM from Hyderabad. It has 2 claims to fame one is a visit by Guru Nanak Dev the founder of Sikhism about 500 years ago and other is as the former capital of the Bahmani Sultans, one of the first Islamic dynasties in Deccan. This post we will visit Bidar Fort and Gurudwara Nanak Jheera near the Bidar Fort. Gurudwara Nanak Jheera in Bidar The legend is that first Sikh Guru Nanak Dev visited Bidar at a time when it was suffering through severe drought and on request of [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Essence Of Old Hyderabad-III

Aug 052012
 
Essence Of Old Hyderabad-III

A Visit To Charminar in the Old City of Hyderabad during Ramzan   Saif  Poses in Front of Charminar Today we visited Charminar Once again to soak in the festivities for the holy month of Ramazan. Every single inch around Charminar was decorated and the few inches that were not decorated were occupied for walking. While I will write in details I am posting this picture of Saif Ali who wanted me to post it asap so that he can watch it on this blog. When I reached my office next day I met an NRI who  hails from [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Tall Shiva Idol at Surendrapuri near Bhongir Fort

Jul 212012
 
Tall Shiva Idol at Surendrapuri near Bhongir Fort

Shiva Idol at Surendrapuri Museum of Mythology There is a tall Shiva idol on NH8 on the way to Gurgaon from Delhi, it is a landmark and I have seen it many times. I am not sure how  high it is but always use to wonder if there are other that high statues of Shiva. Some time back I visited Surendrapuri, Yadagirigutta, Andhra Pradesh near Bhongir Fort and there I photographed this another very tall Shiva idol. Not sure which one is tallest or other such tall statues of Shiva or other Hindu gods in the the country. The specialty of this [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Beautiful Sky

Jul 212012
 
Beautiful Sky

  This Sky and clouds  were captured from my cellphone on the Airport highway in Hyderabad. This is the beautiful sky I captured on my mobile few days back in Hyderabad…. I have never seen such beautiful sky and had to stop my car to capture it. Please click on picture to see a bigger version of the picture. Like they say the best camera is the one in your hand, for some reason I am finding the pictures I like the most are the ones that I am clicking from my cell phone. I have not retouched this picture [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Indian Mexican Bhai Bhai

Jul 192012
 

Long ago Columbus uncle started in search of India but reached America, so much for missing the target and getting famous. Any ways I am not sure if he ever discovered that he has never discovered India but a continent that was so far not known to the western world. It is believed that Chinese sailors have reached America before Columbus and also some Viking Warriors. Any ways the credit was given to Columbus and the native Americans were named Indians as everybody thought they are in India. Some time I get a feeling that probably there is a strong relationship between the [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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