Indian Railways

Because everyone likes a nice railway network schematic.

The Bangalore Club

The Bangalore Club is a very old and venerable institution. We have been told that the "Britishers" did manage to leave a few welcome legacies in India, such as railroads, cricket, and clubs.

The club's claim to fame is that Winston Churchill remains on the Defaulter's List for eternity, owing a sum of 13 Rupees.

We weren't supposed to take pictures but we managed to snap a few before the "bearers" (waiters) found us out.

Snapshot Corner

Tasty Jones

Can you come up with a better restaurant name than Tasty Jones? Didn't think so.

The jingle pretty much writes itself. "Meet me for a burger at Tasty Jones!"

Iron Maiden

I was warned many times before the Iron Maiden show that it was strictly prohibited to bring a camera into the concert grounds. I believe some rules are meant to be broken.

As we entered to concert grounds, males and females were streamed into separate aluminum chutes. The guys went through quickly after indifferent pat-downs by the male staff. But, as I approached the female entrance, a lump grew in my throat as I saw the hungry look in the eyes of my lady friskers. They were out for blood.

Every bit of flesh of my body was tugged at and squeezed. My pockets were emptied and I even had to show the insides of my shoes. But there was only one place that they didn't dare go, which was shrewdly just the place where I had lodged the Fuji.

Monkey Drinking Fanta

How It's Made

How It's Made is a favourite show of ours on the Discovery Channel. True to the name, it shows shows viewers how a thing (it) gets made. Various products realize their form after going through different stages of production along miles of assembly lines. You've probably seen it.

So last Wednesday we were delighted to be invited to the factories of two of Ram's companies. (Ram is my godfather, and our gracious host.) We would see, from start to finish, the production of many of their state-of-the-art products.

Seed filter

Oil filter

Dirty --> clean oil

At John Fowler, we were toured through the various production stages of car filters, aircraft filters, and HEPA filters - running our fingers over the vast sheets fibrous paper which is folded thousands of times, accordion-like, before being placed into their metal housing.

All in all, an illuminating tour of all things filter.