1000 Facebook Likes and 56 shares in 22 hours – for ONE picture! My original headline read 500+ Likes in 2 hours. I changed it to “725 Likes and 26 shares in three hours”. This morning I was about to update to “900 Likes in 18 hours” but, instead, decided to wait for the 1000 [...]
What will it take to clean up Bangalore? The answer is certainly not just corporators and bureaucrats. My favorite Bangalore citizens, The Ugly Indians (aka TUI), will tell you that the battle has to be won “in the mind.” In the mind of its citizens of course. On Jan 26, 2012, they released this 6-minute “Ugly [...]
[Editor's Note: This is Part 3 of a series on Koramangala's Street of Shame.] It’s been 16 days since I posted the last picture in this photo album - Koramangala 5th Block 1st Cross. 65 pictures, numerous conversations with shopkeepers, and a month-long vigil later, I believe there are sufficient data points to document (what I’d [...]
This is Part 2 of a series on Koramangala’s Street of Shame. Ugly Spot #3 is the unofficial open dump where the BBMP truck does its garbage pickup. It’s at the intersection of the road leading to Jyoti Nivas College main entrance. The pictures in this post were taken on Feb 20, 22 and 24th – times [...]
The TUI highlight in the past week is the SpotFix at Prestige St. Johns Wood – behind Oracle’s Koramangala office. This SpotFix merits a ‘Super’ prefix because they also installed a bay of urinals (WonderLoos in ‘Ugly Indian speak’). The TUI released video tells all: Sep 2012 Update: There’s an FAQ on Wonderloos at the [...]
It’s official, folks. The time has come to take my relationship with The Ugly Indian (TUI) to the next level. But first let me talk about how this relationship has evolved. It started with occasionally viewing their SpotFix videos on Facebook. After I started writing this blog, I made a half-hearted attempt to contact them for [...]
This post marks a “first” — reproduced almost entirely (with a few edits and formatting) from a comment I posted to this New York Times article on my favorite community organization (The Ugly Indian). There are so many things amazing about The Ugly Indian that it behooves us to highlight the most important. Attitude Change: [...]
This is Part 2 of the two-part series and continues from Calling Bangalore: Birthday Presents for The Ugly Indian. Nov 10 (Thu) 4pm: Second visit to playground Hmm… What do we have here? A quick examination of TereBins #1 and #2 show that the bins have not been emptied since my visit 28 hours ago. [...]
On Tuesday, The Ugly Indian (TUI) posted the following message on their Facebook page (~ 7,000 fans). We want a birthday present! Show us you are more than a FB fan – go out and do a small spotfix this week. Outside your home or office. Whichever city you live in. If you’ve enjoyed seeing [...]
[Editor's Note: If you've stumbled onto this post without viewing Part 1 and Part 2, we strongly encourage you to view this 3-part series in sequence to fully appreciate the pictorial narrative which reads like a detective story.] Act 3 Scene 7: Chat with 4 store managers Here is our conversation with Imtiaz, Store Manager [...]
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A farmer’s son deliberates on the cooperative decision
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