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Peanut festival in Bangalore
Blog: Indian Bazaars - 25 November 2011
The Groundnut (Peanut) Fair, colloquially called the Kadalekai Parishe takes place once a year at Basavanagudi, in close proximity to Gandhi Bazaar. Every year during November-December over 200 vendors come to the city of Bangalore offering for sale tonnes of groundnuts. This photo essay covers the 2011 Fair that took place this week on Nov 21st and 22nd with Bull temple road becoming completely pedestrianised for the two days.
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Walking thru’ Chickpete
Blog: Indian Bazaars - 14 November 2011
I had a printout of the google map of Chickpete that I studied quickly before I set out. It looked like I could start at the K.R.market and then walk through the many streets and come out towards the Majestic Bus stand at the other end. It was tempting to go into and around the K.R.market as I neared it. I had been there before. Always a hustle of activity, with its fruit and vegetable vendors making brisk sales almost at all times of the day! I loved watching that.
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Tender Coconut in a Street Bazaar
Blog: Indian Bazaars - 2 November 2011
You are walking along a Street Bazaar absorbed in looking at the busy sweet-meat stall where you know you shouldn’t go but where your heart takes you nevertheless. You quickly turn away so as to shrug off just one more culinary temptation of the marketplace. Aromas of enticing street food waft towards you from another street corner. You tell yourself that you are not hungry, but then, you are suddenly thirsty!!
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Art in Urban Spaces
Blog: Indian Bazaars - 15 March 2011
The Bazaars in India are spaces for everyday but they are also places where vendors express themselves through their creative displays, to attract people and to sell goods. This is a form of art perceived not as a "representation" of the real world but as a "way of seeing".
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a Street Bazaar & the CITY
Blog: Indian Bazaars - 19 January 2011
The changing nature of the spaces and the displays in a Street bazaar in India makes it a complex phenomenon that differs from formal retail environments. In a Street Bazaar, there are patterns of human interaction and movement that are generated only to disappear again in a little while, to be created once more in another way. This blogpost includes a film about a simple day in a bazaar in the city of Bangalore.
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Groundnut Fair in Bangalore city
Blog: Indian Bazaars - 2 December 2010
When we first moved to Bangalore three years ago, we were quite awed by the malls and the glass facade IT buildings lining the road where we lived. We made up our minds not to like the city. This was not a place for us. But, we had to continue to live here. As time passed, we discovered the old, charming parts of the "booming metropolis". It had remnants of what we knew Bangalore once was "the garden city" in South India.
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Festival of Lights
Blog: Indian Bazaars - 11 November 2010
It was Diwali last week and bazaars all over the city of Bangalore and everywhere in the country were “places” to experience the sanctity and joy that comes with this festival of lights. In a simple way, place means ‘character’ of a space. This is a term that needs to be understood since the design of architecture and city planning are based on experiential learning. As I now write this blogpost about a walk in the bazaar during the Festival of Lights, I think about the meaning of place and its relevance to an understanding of the Indian bazaar.
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an afternoon in festive Dussehra
Blog: Indian Bazaars - 18 October 2010
It was the red, green and silver festoons glittering in the afternoon light that filled my first few moments at the Gandhi Bazaar in Bangalore. People were choosing their festoons and choosing their flowers. There was such an abundance of both on a street filled with people, with children. Everyone was out shopping for the Dussehra festival.
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Crafts Fair
Blog: Indian Bazaars - 9 September 2010
It was a Sunday in July and there were many people shopping at this Crafts Fair in Bangalore. It was being called the ‘Crafts Bazaar’. This exhibition was organised by Poompuhar – the State Crafts Emporium for Tamil Nadu and was a ten-day event in the city. It had artisans from all over South India and also from the northern States such as Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and others displaying their crafts.
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Fancy Stores
Blog: Indian Bazaars - 15 August 2010
The Fancy stores in India are the places where women buy their glass bangles, their bindis, their kajal, their mehndi and their imitation jewellery amongst many other things. Some of the shops that are more Indian in their goods or their manner of exchange include the Kirana shop, the Paan shop, the Iyengar bakery and the Fancy stores.
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Gandhi Bazaar
Blog: Indian Bazaars - 3 April 2010
This post about the Gandhi Bazaar in Bangalore is part of the Bazaar Tour Series. This series attempts to emphasise that an Indian Bazaar in any town or city can be an interesting experience. The core of any Bazaar is its spontaneity and the reason why a Bazaar anywhere in India is so special.
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Lady in Southern India
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
Last month I took a whirlwind trip through northern India. I saw the sights in Delhi, visited the Taj Mahal at sunrise, explored Rajasthan, and went searching for tigers in Ranthambore National Park. It was an amazing experience, except for one thing: I only got to see a tiny part of the vast, diverse country that is India.
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12 books to read in India
Blog: 99 + 1 countries - 15 August 2009
1. White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga.What: Corrupt, psychotic and wonderfully entertaining Bangalore businessman with a murderous past in Delhi writes nightly letters to the Chinese prime minister.For whom: People who believe India is a country of ancient wisdom and spirituality.
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