From: krishna@seas.smu.edu (Sanjay Krishna)
Subject: Titbits from Bangalore
Organization: School of Engineering and Applied Science
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 03:22:09 GMT


 Hi guys, 
           Some news or rather tit-bits. My parents are visiting and they 
have brought some Deccan Heralds along. I read through them and although 
the main news is pretty well known thanks to mns - there are some things
that do get missed. 

These things are surprising - 

 * In Deccan Herald, just like you had the listing of Bangalore Radio 
and TV, you now get the entire list of programmes from BBC TV, Star TV , 
CNN and Prime Time sports. These guys have seen the NBA games. They  
are seeing talk shows and stuff which make no sense in India. 

 * There are FM stations now in places like Hassan and Chitradurga. I do
not know if they have stereo broadcasting. 

 * Bangalore City Corporation after fighting about renaming streets and so
on have moved on to more serious things - should we continue the license to 
a liqour store directly opposite to the new Gubbi Veeranna Theatre ? 

 * From advertisements in Deccan Herald, places like Tiptur, Gangavati    
 (Raichur dist) and Saundatti have dealers for washing machines, cordless
 telephones and video games  

 * Marimallapa High School in Mysore and Sardar Patel English High School in
B'lore bagged a lot of ranks in the SSLC exam. It had the usual heading - "
 Girls fare better than boys". Almost all the guys said they wanted to go 
 abroad and do engineering and all girls said they wanted to do medicine. 

 * Most of the reservoirs in Karnataka are full - that's good news. 

 * My friends here wanted to know the cost of items in India - well my mom
does remember the prices of vegetables - ( these are of course highly seasonal)
1 kg of tomato, onion cost rs. 4, rice ( ration akki) is rs 5 but nellore sanna
goes from rs 5 to rs 6.50. milk costs rs. 6 or 6.50 ( Bangalore diary). 
Mangoes, sapotas, water melons etc are suddenly in plenty from what my mother's
neighbour who is also here in Dallas says. 

 * For tree lovers in B'lore - one of the big trees in the Malleswaram circle
  areas has collapsed due to heavy rains. In all 20 trees were uprooted when a
  hail storm hit Bangalore. 

( there is an explanation for why trees which have such large roots collapse.-
Roads in Bangalore are being continously widened from what everyone says. If
you guys remember well - in a typical road - we would have the road end ;some
space where the road tapers off where we have jerri kallu and then the footpath
edge and then the planted tree with its cover. Now it seems they are pushing
the road right upto the tree without any tapering. The roots of some trees 
might get exposed. This is not my theory but it is what some one in the letters
to the editor said) 

 * there was one television series directed by Girish Kasaravalli  called 
   " Guddadha Bhoota" which was really good amid the still mediocre stuff. 
   Apparently the whole troupe was from Mangalore and they did a real good
   job and many people were excited about the Mangalore kannada accent. 


Sanjay 
( back to some good food after C++ programming )

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