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On lakes in Bangalore: The Story of Hebbal lake!

What started as an assignment in Anthropology on lakes has now become the story of my city and its lakes.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008


My latest photos in October 2008. There is a fence ( East west hotels have put it in place) thats not too bad, it doesnt cover all the view of the lake from the road. A kalyani ( immersion tank) was created just beyond the fence for the Ganesha festival where I had seen the Lorry dumping mud. the Fence was dismantled to make way for the people and it is just a mud pond with no construction.There is activity on the far side and the old road with the temple is no longer accesssible from the main motorable road. The 'Fish Stall' has dissapeared but I noticed fishing still going on. The huts belongto  the construction people, the Fisher folk have left! It is also madness to try and reach it as the entrance to the flyover near the esteem mall has no pedestrain crossing or any footpath. (It is the airport road!) Specail service road paving with no foothpath ihas been carried out to facilitate visitor parking  near the entrance. The local street food is still being sold outside.
everything now depends on this judgement!


Posted by Meera at 10:25 PM
Labels: Fieldwork notes

1 comment:

Aditya Kamath said...

Hi!!

Nice post...

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January 10, 2009 at 6:42 AM

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