Sunday, July 30, 2006 

Common Cerulean


Common Cerulean
Originally uploaded by SrikanthT.
Jamides celeno
Hebbal, last week

Extremely impatient guy. Had to struggle a bit to find him stable at a place.

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 

Going back in time

We always go forward in time, keep going really fast, sometimes, somethings make you come to a screeching halt sometimes, forcing you to think, OK, this is something I know, I have seen that in the "past" sometime.
Today morning, as usual, I was coming to office, (Fast as usual).
In one of the lanes of IndiraNagar, I suddenly noticed something, a person pulling a cart. It would have been normal if it is vegetables being sold, or if it is a regular push cart, of 4 wheels is what you see.
But, he was pulling a two wheeled cart, like a bullock cart, and he was selling salt in it. This is something which I have seen very long back in my childhood. Salt(Crystals, not the powdered one) used to be sold on carts like this, and I have almost forgotten that salt was ever sold on streets, and not in super markets, and they are not sold by kilograms, but by the containers which the sellers carry.
And he was carrying salt the same old fashioned way, in a gunny bag placed on the cart, with a metal container which is used as a measure to sell salt.
Unfortunately, I donot carry camera most of the times, otherwise it would have been a great record of the "bygone" era, which just went past me in the heart of the buzzling, modern motropolis of Bangalore.

Saturday, July 22, 2006 

Honour ?

This was the thought which came to my mind many times.
Is it required for to display your identity all the time? Is that "extra safety" or something else? It may not be intentional all the times, with every one. But I have seen that with many people in Bangalore.

I am not talking about the goodies like backpacks or shirts bearing company logos. You have to use them, but the identity cards which hang around the necks of many people "most of the times". I can understand some one inadvertently stepping in with the strap around neck into a grocery shop while returning from work. I would term it "inadvertent" if they removed it from neck and preserved it in pocket after they realize that they have it still on outside the office.
I see people walk merrily in MG Road or Commercial street with Id cards "prominently" displayed(mostly hanging around the neck).

I have always wondered what makes someone do what they do, but I write this today after I read an interesting musing in Deccan Herald today.

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