Route Map to Concorde Manhattans

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From Schneider GTCI to Concorde :

Schneider Electric Global Technology Center 88, 6th Rd, EPIP Zone Bangalore, Karnataka, India

1. Head toward 2B Rd south on 6th Rd 130 m
2. Turn left at 2B Rd 550 m
3. Turn right toward Varthur Rd 2.4 km
4. Turn right at S.V Exide Shoppe onto Varthur Rd Pass by Indian Oil Petrol Pump (on the left in 4.3 km) 5.6 km
5. At HAL Junction, continue onto Old Airport Rd Pass by HP Petrol Pump (on the left in 3.0 km) 4.2 km
6. Turn left toward Inner Ring Rd 260 m
7. Continue straight onto Inner Ring Rd Pass by AyurVAID Hospitals (on the left in 300 m) 5.2 km
8. Turn left at BOB Tech Solutions onto Hosur Rd Pass by The Bose Store (on the left) 130 m
9. Sharp left to stay on Hosur Rd Pass by Hanuman Temple (on the right) 190 m
10. Take the 3rd left onto Hosur Rd/National Highway 7 Continue to follow National Highway 7 Pass by Petrol Pump Madiwala (on the left) 1.5 km
11. Slight right onto Bangalore Elevated Tollway Limited 9.1 km
12. Continue onto 1st Main Rd Pass by State Bank of India (on the left) 650 m
13. Turn left onto Wipro Avenue Pass by Axis Bank ATM (on the left) 750 m
14. Slight right at Wipro Junction onto Neeladri Road Pass by Laddoos (on the right) 700 m
15. At Gate 16, continue onto Neeladri Rd 170 m

Concorde Manhattans Electronics City Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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From MountCarmel to Concorde Manhattans:

Mount Carmel College Palace Road, Vasanth Nagar Bengaluru, Karnataka, India 1. Head toward Palace Rd east on 8th Main Rd 11 m 2. Take the 1st right onto Palace Rd Pass by Consulate General of France (on the left) 750 m 3. Turn left at High Grounds Police Station onto Chowdaiah Rd/Sankey's Rd 110 m 4. Turn right onto Millers Rd Pass by Karnataka State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (on the right) 180 m 5. Slight right onto Raj Bhavan Rd Pass by High point Bldg (on the right) 54 m 6. Slight left onto Palace Rd Pass by Masjid (on the left) 800 m 7. Take the 2nd left 350 m 8. At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto Nrupathunga Rd Pass by Indian Oil (on the right in 450 m) 900 m 9. Slight left to stay on Nrupathunga Rd 61 m 10. At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Kasturba Rd Pass by Hindustan Petrolium (on the right) 400 m 11. Turn left onto Kalinga Rao Rd Pass by MS Ramaiah College Of Education (on the right) 400 m 12. Turn right at Food Corporation Of India onto Lalbagh Rd Pass by Show Room (on the right) 1.1 km 13. Turn left at Aditya Technologies onto Marigowda Rd Go through 1 roundabout Pass by Petrol Pump (on the left in 450 m) 4.3 km 14. At Madivala Checkpost Signal, continue onto Hosur Rd Pass by St. John's Medical College (on the left in 650 m) 1.1 km 15. Sharp left to stay on Hosur Rd Pass by Hanuman Temple (on the right) 190 m 16. Take the 3rd left onto Hosur Rd/National Highway 7 Continue to follow National Highway 7 Pass by Petrol Pump Madiwala (on the left) 1.5 km 17. Slight right onto Bangalore Elevated Tollway Limited 9.1 km 18. Continue onto 1st Main Rd Pass by State Bank of India (on the left) 650 m 19. Turn left onto Wipro Avenue Pass by Axis Bank ATM (on the left) 750 m 20. Slight right at Wipro Junction onto Neeladri Road Pass by Laddoos (on the right) 700 m 21. At Gate 16, continue onto Neeladri Rd 170 m Concorde Manhattans Electronics City Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Homeless to Homed

I was born in a kerala styled house called "Tharavaadu". It was huge, with many rooms inside, but too small ones. The house was clay roof tiled which kept me warm during winter season and cool during summer. With little more space around, it allowed me and friends to play thief and police, grocery shop, a farmer and what not. During heavy rainfall coconut use to fall in the room which generate cracks and I remember water dripping in through the walls and the platform below the roof called "Thattu" (Woodwork done to store things and increase the visual appearance of the rooms so that the roof won't be seen directly). Due to some reason we were forced to sell it off and moved to a new place. Since then I was never been permanently in my own house.


It took two years for us to finalize and complete the new house and ofcourse concrete one, but by then I joined my engineering where I stayed with my friends in a rented house. By 2004, I completed my engineering moved to Pune where I stayed as a guest in a cousin's house and then moved to rented apartments till I came to Bangalore.

After coming to Bangalore, I was staying with my grandmother in a rented apartment till 2009 (Almost since I got married) and moved to another, as a tenant after marriage. Though two more houses added which I can claim mine by now, I continued as a tenant and I hope things are changing.

If things go well with us, we are moving to our new apartment in Electronics City. Our neighbors are Siemens, Wipro and Infosys and the apartment is from the renowned builder "Concorde Group – 1000 crore conglomerate". Concorde Manhattans is their prestigious project with 926 apartments with all modern amenities attached below.

I don’t know what life have left for me, but this is the plan ten days down the line and I hope to have a fresh start leaving all miseries in the way and there by turning from a homeless to homed.

Story of a “Muri” Beedi

Long before Westerners introduced Cigars or cigarette in India, rather southern Asia a small piece of tobacco roll ruled here called Beedi. If you still can’t relate, I need to remind you the song “Beedi jalaile” in which many of our heart throb (definitely not mine... and by the way this comment is not because that I am scared of my wife) was dancing in the movie Omkara. Yes, Now you should have got our hero who will be described whole of this episode.

Okie..But what’s this “Muri”. All my Malayalee readers would have understood that but for others I am taking you to the most of the prestigious and non-prestigious boy’s hostel, room stays. Before that why did I choose to narrate this story to you? I was in hotel Zuri for a meeting last week. I love food of Zuri, a lot of varieties. Eating a lot of chicken, I was almost about to quit eating chicken. Many of you know my obsession towards chicken and may be to maintain the food chain God didn’t like me to take that decision because he might have thought what he will do with these excess produced chicken if I stop eating those. But the issue is not about chicken, it is about after lunch a small chit chat with my colleagues which opened up Yaadein of hostel memories. I know this time it is not my yaadein it’s my colleague “Sadak ettan’s” yaadein. He didn’t know that I am using his name and fame to promote my blog.

Sadakettan (Ettan – brother, I think he may be a year or little more elder than me but I like calling him ettan) is one of the star performer of my company. I always see him thinking deep about the design and code. But while talking in common man’s terminology (in short when he comes out of software world) he is as funny and jovial as any one I have seen.

Back to our discussion, since it is after lunch we saw our regular smokers running out to take a puff and we saw the enthusiasm in them to keep them awake in the post lunch session. While joking on them Sadakettan told us his hostel incident which is true for many of us who stayed in hostel or rooms.
In the beginning of the month all of his friends use to get money from their parents for that month’s expense. Those who are smokers start with high end cigarette. They often stock packets for coming weeks to go promising that they won’t exceed that month quota. But as usual they will be over by almost First week of that month. Second week they lower their standard and share their brotherhood by sharing a same cigarette and even broken cigarette. Lord kubera might not have blessed all who can afford one more week of cigarette journey. Those who still can afford will have atleast ten to fifteen friends around them, a bike and they live in their world. But even common man need to live, there comes the saviour, king of poor.. Beedi. I don’t know the cost but I know for around 2-3 Rs people get a packet of 10.

Among all these friends there are few still considering themselves not that cheap. Even if you are penniless you cannot go behind beedi’s . Instead third week of the month they start searching for burnt cigarette pieces and they will manage it for another week. I heard there are extreme cases that they even search in Bus stop shelters for broken pieces who are chain smokers by nature and don’t have money. Whether it is true or false is not my issue, but what is common is all of them will come to the same platform of “Muri” or broken or burnt beedi’s almost at the end of fourth week.

I remember one of my college senior saying taking the last puff of his muri Beedi, “its easy for the parents to set rule and restrict money.. They don’t have to bother how we live here…”