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  1. Karnataka to pray to Rain God

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    / July 21, 2012 / 1 Comment
    At the entrance to Vidhana Soudha in Bangalore is inscribed : `Government’s work is God’s work’. New chief minister Jagadish Shettar seems to have taken it literally by ordering all 34000 temples in Karnataka to conduct special poojas to pray for rain. The state is reeling under drought with over...

  2. Dear GHMC Commissioner

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    / June 25, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Dear GHMC commissioner, I commute to work in Hyderabad. My route is through back-breaking and dug-up roads, through clogged and overflowing drains, and through garbage heaps breeding mosquitoes. You might have received a thousand letters, e-mail and other forms of communication regarding the problems. But, the point is, what have...

  3. Monsoon reaches Kerala

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    / June 5, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The pre-monsoon showers have been on in Kerala for the last 2-3 days but the monsoon was not yet official. The Met department was waiting for the 14 designated stations along the west coast, mostly in Kerala (like Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Thrissur) to report 2.5 mm or more rainfall for two...

  4. Cyclone Thane leaves Chennai wet

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    / December 30, 2011 / Leave a comment
    These are images from the Marina in Chennai, which was deserted, save these group of fishermen boys. When I clicked their photograph, the question they popped was : “Will you put this photograph on your Facebook?” In many areas of Chennai, power supply has been a casualty and the strong...

  5. When the monsoon reaches Mumbai

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    / June 12, 2011 / 3 Comments
    It is that time of the year when India changes her colour from dusty brown to a million shades of green, aided by the dark clouds that roll in from the south-west. The bright sun gets time to take a break as the dark clouds take over, showering giant droplets and coloring...

  6. The Kerala monsoon, off and on screen !

    Posted by Rima Kallingal
    / June 5, 2011 / 3 Comments
    It was in `City of God’ that I shot for the first time in artificial rain at Wellington Island. It was the film’s climax scene and it was quite an experience for someone who has enjoyed the Kerala rain every season since childhood, to shoot in water released from a...

  7. Blame it on the rain

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    / May 30, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By M S Hussain   The headline is from a song of the same name. It was performed by a German band called Milli Vanilli, which, sadly, turned out to be a pair of charlatans who had successfully passed themselves off as singers in the late eighties, and were awarded a Grammy for their...

  8. Distant rain and the magic of Ilayaraja

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    / December 26, 2010 / 2 Comments
    By Ashish Vidyarthi   As we readied ourselves for the night sequence in the bungalow, our director Jawahar set up a crane shot to capture the exterior lit-up for the wedding song, against the blue of the gathering dusk. The humidity and heat of the day had given way to...

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