Kinner Kailash

Kinner Kailash is a mountain in the Kinner district of the Indian state Himachal Pradesh.The Kinnerr Kailash has a hight of 6500 meters  and is considered as scared by both Hindu and Buddhist Kinneries.This mountain sometimes confused with  the mountain Kailash  in Tibet .The Kinner Kailash Range borders the district of Kinner in  the south  and is dominated Kinaur  Kailash (elevation 6349 m ) and Jorkanden peaks.As per legend ,this shrine existed since the time of Bhasmasur, the deadly Asur (deman) who received a boon from the deity Lord Shiva after great penance,which entailed  that any persons head touched by him will be turned into ashesh ( bhasma) .   Upon receiving this gift, he tried  to turn Lord Shiva into ashes,as he wished to posses Parbati,which would only be possible upon his death. Lord Shiva stayed hiding ,changing locations often and then finally came to Kinneur Kailash. He recided here for sometimes meditating Lord Vishnu eventually helped him to slay the Asur,appearing to him as a woman and getting him to place his hand upon his own head,thereby killing Bhasmasur.

                                                                                                                                                                                  

Around Bangalore: Part 2

A few days passed, we are becoming familiar with neighbors and other people. A south Indian family from top floor of the apartment came to meet us with a bowl of mango prickly we offered them sweets, the famous Berhampore Chanabara. They spend about half an hour with us and gossiped friendly a lot but unfortunately we could not intake head and tail of their language. They departed with a lot of promises to come again and again. The Land Lord, a Kennedy came with his family to introduce with us. A very good gentle family living in the 1st floor of the apartment with his two daughters, elder daughter a  student of 1st year B.B.A. and younger daughter a student of class IV  in English medium school.                                                                                                                                                                     

 The next door neighbor a noble lady from Bihar, living with her younger son a student of first year B.B.A. She offered bread chops and many eatables from time to time. Her recipes are delicious.

Hardworking Lady's House

Mango Prickly                                

Bread Chop                                 

The hardworking  lady inside the above house from Don Valley reside with her civil engineer husband with two kids,  a daughter of Class VII and a son of class IV in English medium School.
Days are passing in the world famous climate of Bangalore and its surroundings. In the meantime visited a few hills of the west ghat mountain range which has been mentioned in separate articles elsewhere .Also visited some place of interests of the silicon city, The Bangalore Palace, Tipu sultan’s summer palace, Kuban Park. Karnataka High Court, Museum, Neheru Planetarium, Lalbag.

Bangalore Palace

Cubbon Park

Lake ,Hebbel lake and other lakes, gardens, Bridged Road ,M. G.Road , Belor Road, Sanjoy Nagar, R.T.Nagar, K.R . Puram Old Madras Road  and  Ring roads. Further to mention  Dollars Colony, The Pables Bay and  Whispering Medows, multi storied buildings with Hali Pad in the Top.

Pebble Bay

The grocery shop owner Sasi a Kannad hard working young man is very simple with amiable manners, managing  the shop with the help of his partner. A lady managing the Nandini Milk shop  is efficient enough to do so. The Bakery man is very gentle. Above all  Kannad people are very  laborious and their honesty deserved to be mentioned specially.

The Beauty Parlor owner Manju Natha advised to cut hairs in short. He asked Ulla Ulla ? Reply was yes. He finished his job, and it is seen that the head is about to hair less. One day when the author  waiting for his M.R.I. report in Ramiya Hospital, it is seen that  a doctor after investigating  a patient asking him for some information’s but the patient remained silent.dr.Third again and again but failed. At last dr. called a Tamil Hospital staff and solved. The patient was a telaga. Sympathetic behavior of doctors entire the south Indian hospitals, especially in   C.M.C .Vellore and Colombia Asia Hospital in Bangalore are remarkable.    

Camp office of political parties outside the Election Booth of Parliament Election 2014 at Bangalore North Parliamentary election constituency

                           

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Around Bangalore : Part 1

                         

On 26 the March 2014 along with Aparna, partner of the author, quit Berhampore Rly. Station at 7 am by Dhana Dhannya express on AC chair car. Seat no. 43, 44 was allotted .Author’s nephew Debasis Boral (babu) of Laldeghi present to see off. Arrival Calcutta Rly. Station at about 2330 hours, after taking lunch at rly canteen run to Netaji Subhas Ch. Bose International Air Port by city cab to pic up flight for Bangalore. 

At AirPort obtained boarding pass from the spice jet counter on production of E Ticket and ID card .Done tagging of luggage’s and proceed to gate 20 .Frisking of person and checking of baggage is mandatory. The flight of the Spice jet Boarding Time scheduled at 1615 of the day. In Flight 529 allotted seat number 27 A, 27B for the journey, through escalator reach the lounge. A long four hours break in the Air Port lounge absorbed smoothly observing surroundings, gossiping, reading books and looking landing and treading of international flights on the runways and in the sky. The word boring was absent throughout the time. Before half an hour of departure the spice jet placed at tarmac. Passengers entered into it through stairs by side of the pilot cabin .At entrance smiling face air hostess welcomed all. After searching seats, putting the bag in the bin, seat by window side. A most pleasant relaxing atmosphere.   The spice Jet take off at the scheduled time. Bonding of seat belt is mandatory. By and by visibility of Kolkata with all its glory and brightness became invisible. After departure , the  air hostess ,demonstrated  through  silent- acting ,audio coming via speaker ,what to do in case of emergency, how to bond seat belt, use of oxygen mask in case of shortfall of oxygen inside, use of parasite  kept under the seat of each passenger to jump from a burning vassal etc. etc. Time to time announcements coming from pilot cabin in regard to flight information like seat belt bonding, weather, height, change of height, speed of air craft etc. The sky was cloudy, wind blowing in high speed lightning vigorously, the plain fall in an air pocket, it was jerking, and the jerking felt by the passengers. The pilot took more high altitude. After a  few minutes all became normal .At 1910 spice jet laundered at Bangalore International Airport .After collecting luggage’s from conveyor belt proceeded to  exit gate, there found Mr. Rain ,Orinda Dye a Bangalorian, an IBM loriat,Visva Bharati University and EIILM university scholar, loyal son of the author waiting. Started for the residence by city cab. Arrival at Bangalore chapter ended.

              Next day, during morning walk the first and foremost thing noticed, Rongoli. The author hosted in an apartment, its anexture, even the total locality covered by South Indian people.Rangoli drawn in front of almost all houses.Rongali also known as Kolam or Muggu, is an Indian folk art in which patterns are created in living rooms or courtyards. Colam is a form of painting  that is drawn by using  rice powder/chalk /chalk powder/white rock powder/ often use naturally/synthetically colored powders in Tamil Nadu , Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh Kerala and some parts of Goa, Maharashtra, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and a few other Asian countries. A Colam is a geometrical line drawing composed of curved loops, drawn around a grid pattern of dots. In south India it is widely practiced by female Hindu family members and colures are often added during holiday occasional events like Denali, on am, pongol and barolakshmi puja. Kolams are regionally known by different  names in India.Roongolee in Maharastra,Hase and  Roongoli in Kannda  in Karnataka ,Muggulu in Andhra,Golam in Kerala  mandana, in Rajasthan, chaookpurna in Chattisgarh ,Alpana in  West Bengal  Aripana  in Bihar,chowk  pujan  in Uttar Pradesh etc.More complex colams are drawn in front of their houses in special occations.

Rangoli in Andhra Pradesh is called as Muggu. A muggu being created at an entrance to a home. Like most part of the countries, every morning before sun rise, the women folk clean the entrance to a home and/or the courtyard with water, considered the universal purifier, and the muddy floor is swept well to prepare an even surface.

Cow dung is then mixed with water and this slurry is expertly spread on the requisite area and spread evenly    with a broom .This is done on a regular basis in rural areas and of festive occasion’s income urban areas where there is availability of sufficient cow dung and space to draw the muggu. This procedure is performed as it is believed that cow dung has antiseptic properties and hence provides a literal threshold of protection for a home. The muggu is then drawn on this prepared surface .The dark color of the cow dung slurry also provides a good contrast for the white powder of the muggu.

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A passage to Nandi Hills

Those  having mastered seed  under the foot ,looks for holy days around the Calendar .To take a tripe anywhere, in and abord,to get  some relief  from  tress and tension of daily life and for enjoyment, amusement  education and so on .A passage to  Nandi Hills may be taken into consideration. It was called Anandagiri hills of happiness during the period of Cholas of the 11^th Century. Among other stories about the  origin of the name Nandi Hills it is perhaps called so because the hill resembles a Sleeping bull(Nandi).This hill station has a number of things to observe and most important among all a Dravidian Temple which is around 1200 years old. Carved on a rock, the two complexes of the Temple make it more significant. Where one complex houses the deity sculptures and the other had a pond which is known as Kalyani and sometimes as Amrut Sarovar. A beautiful water  lake that brims with lucid water all the year round.It is located at about 4851 feet above sea level .         

Temple Lake

 

An incident dseserve to mentilon here.Till for 11 days (NSS CAMP) atop Channagiri a 46-Members team from a city R.C. College has unearthed seven dormant feeder springs which are oozing water again. It was not an easy climb for the younger stars from their base camp at Doddarayappanhalli village two kilometers to the summit. Nandi hills have a motor able road to the summit, but Channarayaswamy Betta does not even have a foot trail, and trekkers have to negotiate bushes and boulders on the way up. When they reached the top; the students were shocked to see the ’Kalyani’ filled with mud. NSS Officer Tripura said the pond looked like a dump yard, with plastic bags and other discarded items covering the entire area.

       The 46 strong group as many as 22 were girls, began to clear up the pond with a vengeance , and did not let up  for the next five days, They get on  with the digging till late in the evening .

       The patience paid rich dividends .At end of the fifth day, one of the students noticed water bubbling up from a natural spring.  Back at the scene the next day, they found the entire area filled with water .A pump was processed into service to drain off the water and 11 days of preserving labor, seven long dormant springs had been unearthed. Hats off to the students.

Arkavathy River (Source- Nandi Hills)

Palar River (Source- Nandi Hills)

Penna River

Bangalore to Nandi Hills 60 kilometers by road .36 turns to reach hills top and 1175 steps around the hills. On Bangalore Ballary road ,reach Dsevanahalli Cross, which is on the 36 th mile stone Take the deviation on the left and travel 11 kilometers to reach Nandi Cross  The foot of the hill is 3 kilometers from here. On the Dodhaballapur road , turn right to reach the road that leads to the top of the hill. From the foot is 8 kilometers of the Top’.

Tree House

Hill Top

Rain Forest

Tipu Sultan’s Summer Palace

It is located at Bangalore. This structure has been built entirely with Teak Wood and stands adorned with pillars, arches and balconies .It is an example of Indo-Islamic architecture. It is believed that the Tipu Sultan used to conduct his Durbar (court) from eastern and western balconies of the upper floor. There are four smaller rooms in the corners of 1st floor which were used to known as Zena –na Quarters. There are beautiful floral motifs embellishing the walls of the palace..The site also holds a painting of grand throne visualized by Tipu Sultan himself. Coated with gold sheets and struck with precious emerald stones. Tipu has vowed never to use it until he completely defeated the English Army. Hence, after the death of Tipu, British administration dismantled the throne and auctioned in parts since it was too expensive for a single person to buy it in entire piece . The rooms in the ground floor have been converted into a small museum showcasing various achievements of Tipu Sultan and his administration. There are newly done portraits of the people and places at that time. There is a replica of Tipu’s Tiger, which is presently at the Victoria and Albert Museum at London .The cloths of Tipu Sultan and his crown are present in silver and gold pedestal. The silver vessels given by a General to Hyder Ali is also displayed.

       The space in front of the palace developed as a Garden and lawn by Horticulture Department, Government of Karnataka. The palace is opened to public daily from 10 am, to 6 p.m. (except Sundays).