Did you know that this 500-year-old fort is only 35 km from Bangalore???
Did you know that this ancient temple is in electronics city?
Hi friends/ readers,
Welcome to my online blog. I am a travel writer and a journalist with over 200 published articles to my credit.
For the daily dose of rice and sambar which keeps me alive and kicking and breathing and climbing and bikeing and travelling, I work for India's sole education newsmagazine - EducationWorld. The focus of our monthly is education and related issues. My job involves a mix of attending press conferences, interviewing people, students, professors, businessmen, politicians, bureaucrats etc.
The best part of my job is ofcourse working on the Leisure and Travel section in our magazine. It gives me immense pleasure and happiness to work on this section which has provided me numerous opportunities to travel to far away locales including Andhra Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Delhi, Coorg etc in India and Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah and Fujayarah in the UAE (United Arab Emirates).
Apart from the job I also do a lot of freelance writing for a host of publications (both print and online) in India and abroad. What I found in the past few years of travelling and working is that there is no proper sustained documentation of tourist destinations in India. Tourism in India is a totally under utilised field and successive governments during the past six decades of post-independence have miserably failed to capitalise on our vast huge size, snow clad himalayas, lush green forests, golden beaches, over 5,000 year historical heritage and numerous other natural attractions.
This has resulted in a deepset ignorance among everyone including us, Indians that we don't have much tourism because we don't have tourist attractions. This is the issue I wish to address in my own small way by writing about Bangalore and Karnataka. This blog is dedicated to Bangalore and its surroundings. I have travelled extensively in and around Bangalore during weekends and have identified several places which are worth visiting over a weekend. Many places can be done in half a day or one day and offer soul soothing ambiance.
I hope readers will help me by giving feedback about my writing and guide me in the right direction in documenting Bangalore and its environs.
Welcome to my online blog. I am a travel writer and a journalist with over 200 published articles to my credit.
For the daily dose of rice and sambar which keeps me alive and kicking and breathing and climbing and bikeing and travelling, I work for India's sole education newsmagazine - EducationWorld. The focus of our monthly is education and related issues. My job involves a mix of attending press conferences, interviewing people, students, professors, businessmen, politicians, bureaucrats etc.
The best part of my job is ofcourse working on the Leisure and Travel section in our magazine. It gives me immense pleasure and happiness to work on this section which has provided me numerous opportunities to travel to far away locales including Andhra Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Delhi, Coorg etc in India and Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah and Fujayarah in the UAE (United Arab Emirates).
Apart from the job I also do a lot of freelance writing for a host of publications (both print and online) in India and abroad. What I found in the past few years of travelling and working is that there is no proper sustained documentation of tourist destinations in India. Tourism in India is a totally under utilised field and successive governments during the past six decades of post-independence have miserably failed to capitalise on our vast huge size, snow clad himalayas, lush green forests, golden beaches, over 5,000 year historical heritage and numerous other natural attractions.
This has resulted in a deepset ignorance among everyone including us, Indians that we don't have much tourism because we don't have tourist attractions. This is the issue I wish to address in my own small way by writing about Bangalore and Karnataka. This blog is dedicated to Bangalore and its surroundings. I have travelled extensively in and around Bangalore during weekends and have identified several places which are worth visiting over a weekend. Many places can be done in half a day or one day and offer soul soothing ambiance.
I hope readers will help me by giving feedback about my writing and guide me in the right direction in documenting Bangalore and its environs.
Starting this week I will write up the places I visit every weekend. I hope this small effort will be complemented by people who will visit the places reading about them here.
warm regards
warm regards
3 comments:
Well done Sahasi! you have unveiled such hidden treasures like this fort near bangalore. Though being a bangalorean and now living in Singapore, I had never known the existance of this fort or that beautiful temple in electronic city.
Loved the photograph of the fort. It shows the changing times where a bicycle riding villager is coming out of a 500year old fort. Which fort is this and where exactly is this?
Again, the temple reminds us bangaloreans of a great cultural past now fighting for existance in the knowledge based era but burdened with crass commercialisation and greed.
Alas! my dear Bangalore is sinking into the abyss of cultural insensitivity.
Kudos again for your efforts!!
Indilens
Hi,
You do have a great blog. Where exactly is the temple?
sahasi...man tht was a fine job u have done thr....in fact i m myself a big fan of namma bengalurru...well i wud be more thn happy to join u guys in any venture the next time i m in bangalore...well tht is if its ok with u guys....but lemme tell u...me come r not...u have done a great job...keep going great guns boys....Vivek
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