Mysore moments

It wasn't easy to get the four of them together to pose, when I wanted to capture the moment when grandsons Sidharth and Nikhil visited their  cousins - Samarth and Diya - in Mysore a couple of years back.
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It's cool at the pool

Normal daytime temperature in Chennai nowadays touches 110. Rahul, a schoolboy from Gurgaon, who has come to spend the summer break with  grandparents at Mantri's, takes to our clubhouse pool.
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Of blue and yellow

At a railway station platform, on the Mysore-Bangalore line.
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Shop front

Meat shop opens earlier than most other retails on this street at Kelambakkam, Chennai. Cleanliness is not a priority with shoppers here.
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A sky so full of colours

A rising sun paints the sky for us, at the Mantri Synergy residential complex on OMR in Chennai.
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Summer break

With schools closed for summer these children hitch a ride on their father's pushcart, to help him with vegetable sales. Photo taken on Chamaraja Double Road in Mysore.
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Pavement sales

I couldn't quite figure out what it was on the pavement, other than that it was made out of bamboo. Pavement vendors set up shop around Devaraja Market before shopping hours at Devaraja Urs Road in Mysore.
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Wayside station

Maddur, a midway railway station on the Bangalore-Mysore line. Maddur is known for its tasty vada, a snack sold by traveling vendors on Mysore-Bangalore trains. Those looking for a spot of yellow in this shot will find it on the cement slab under the signboard.
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Blue train

A strip of yellow on the blue train makes it a two-in-one shot - my post for Mellow Yellow and Blue Monday. Mandya is a wayside town, and a prime rail halt on the Bangalore-Mysore route. Known for paddy, sugarcane and its aggressive farming lobby, Mandya thrives on Cauvery water flowing through a well-knit irrigation canal system.

Garland of lemon

Devotees offer lemon garlands to the deity at the Nimishamba temple in Srirangapatna near Mysore. Make-shift shops selling flowers/garlands and other puja offerings line the entrance to the shrine, located on the Cauvery river bank.
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Mysore memories

It has been over two weeks since we shifted base to Chennai, from Mysore. And my wife and I haven't yet got used to a life without Mysore, where we had spent over six years. Besides, I still retain in my computer a fair collection of Mysore photos. This one is a quiet image of an otherwise busy traffic junction on Devaraja Urs Rd. Took this photo before business hours.
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Yellow headload

A blue-shirted vendor carrying a head-load of yellow to his flowers shop at Devaraja Market, Mysore.
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The shutter is blue

Dedicated Blue Monday bloggers may find their preferred colour taking a backseat here. Eye-stealer in the shot is coloured yellow. Took this photo at K R Circle during the last Dasara, an annual festival of which we in Mysore make a big deal. The festival stretches for 10 days during which the entire city is lit up. There are daily concerts held on the Palace grounds. A colourful procession through the town marks the end of Dasara festival.

Bazar traffic

Experts have it that on city roads in India you can find 18 different modes of transport competing for space. I can count five, not including the car in which I was traveling when I took this shot in Chennai.
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Swing in the living room

Living room of my blogger friend in Ooty. Kalyani whose blog posts, as distinct in substance and style as her living room, chose not to blog nearly 4 months back - 'I don't want to 'continue to ruminate so much and publicly on me and mine'.
Wish she has a change of mind.
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A touch of blue on yellow

A roundabout on JLB Rd.,Mysore,named after a local sports hero who made it big in cricket.
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Vintage arch

The idea is to protect this period piece from poster-stickers and graffiti artists. I am not sure if the grilled guard doesn't muck up the look of this piece of Mysore's architecture. Painting it blue doesn't help, does it.
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Cricketing blue

With World Cup 2011 having got under way public interest in the game is now on a fever pitch.The house-front banner at Srirampet, Mysore, and reports of special prayers offered for the India win reflect public frenzy.
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Blue wall

The touch-up in blue doesn't give the place much of a face-lift, does it. This roadside temple at Myiladuthurai in Tamilnadu is crumbling around the edges.
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Silence zone,for vehicles passing by the Institute of Oriental Studies, Mysore. The institute, frequented by research scholars has collection of over 35,000 palm leaf manuscript.
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