Pondicherry....

The Taj,still beautiful?

A soldier stands guard outside the Taj.

source-rediff.com


“It’s ironic that we did have such a warning, and we did have some measures,”
-Ratan N Tata, Chairman Tata Sons and Chairman, Indian Hotels Co Ltd that owns the Taj group of hotels

Smoking banned in India

The ban on lighting up rolled tobacco in public places came into effect from Thursday with hotels, restaurants, pubs, offices and even the international airports becoming out of bounds for smokers.

The ban will also cover even hookah bars and pubs as well as private offices and public places like bus stops.

Union Health Ministry issued a notification for the ban under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution), Act 2003.

The ban has evoked mixed response from smokers and non-smokers with some calling it a "draconian" measure while others consider it a "god-send" gift that may help them in

bringing down the intake of nicotine and reduce cutting a hole in their wallets

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Corn...

Fried corns known as Jola in Kannada are quite easily available [post summer]....
in every street in Malleshwaram u will get atleast one street vendor seeling these......they are quite tasty and cheap too!!!..

trip snaps!!...

first day-near shimoga where we halted











Jog falls in shimoga














trekking with my friends !!














yana!


















way to malpe beach!!!

am back!

finally came back from my trip today morning...feeling little disappointed now that its over:(....but how ever the trip was really good,enjoyed a lot with my friends..total abt 90 of us were there!...we had been to jogfalls,burde falls[?],gokarna,murudeshwara,malpe beach and yana[trekking]....will be posting the snpas very soon.....now have to get up some sleep and take rest!!!..bye guys[and girls]!!!!..:))

Jacaranda

Jacaranda may be the name of a flowering plant but its also the name of the block in Brigade Millenium situated in Jp nagar where my aunt[Doddamma] stays whom i visited today for the first time[along with my cousin Ashray],was really impressed with the block made of 3 and 4 bedroom apartments.It also contains a separate club with basketball and tennis courts.My day today was pretty good:),have come to my cousins place in Jp nagar[home away from home].From morning except talking rubbish and playing PSP here havent done anything worthy of mentioning here.

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