bengaluru

After more than ten years spent in Bengaluru, we've learned as much to avoid food outside. Eating food outside hasn't been the same in Bengaluru as it was several years back. However, there are few exceptions. Maiya's is one such restaurant. At Maiya's you get the traditional flavors of Udupi, Mangalore. The food is of better quality. If the South Indian food gets boring, there are always pastries, some bakery stuff and Gujarathi style restaurant for a change.

Not just that, the restaurant is famous for the coffee served in real silver cups. And for the lunch and dinner, a drink is also usually served in silver cups.

Of late, whenever anyone throws a question asking which place (city) I'm from, there isn't by any means a ready answer. The confusion lies in the fact that I haven't lived for long in any place that I could call my home town and that I've lived major part of my life till now in the city of Bengaluru! Yes, I was born in Davanagere. The city famous for its Dosa and cotton mills. I was brought up in the lovely fort city of Chitradurga. Rocky hills, ponds and the truly mesmerizing channels of harvested rain water running into ponds that always made us wonder how the city even got into facing scarcity of water. It is said that a British officer who visited Chitradurga fort was quite relieved that they did not have to fight to win it. The historic fort is said to have been impenetrable.

Mid-Day Bangalore carried a blurb about GNU/Linux Habba yesterday. Check the IT-Adda Column (Page 9) April 10, 2008.

A pdf copy of the page is available here.

Many thanks to the journalist friends at Mid-day for spreading the word and encouraging our team of volunteers.

For those of you reading this but do not know what GNU/Linux Habba is, please visit:
http://kannada.sampada.net/event/gnu-linux-habba-bengaluru

(for Kannada, check)
http://sampada.net/event/GNU-Linux-Habba

Hello all at MoreStore,

We walked into your Store at Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru partly curious to
witness to what extent Aditya Birla has changed Fabmall :-)

But I should say that I was very disappointed with the quality of
supply and the unpolished attitude of apparently untrained personnel.

Several goods that are well beyond their declared shelf life (expiry)
are still dogging for customer's attention. Soft Drinks with labels
stripped off, Soft Drinks with leaked bottles, Dusty packs of fruit
juice, stale vegetables (at the door and inside) are mostly to be seen.
It is a mess! Much of the commodities we see in better supermarkets are
missing.