beauty of BRTS track

Hubballi-Dharwad BRTS track during off hours serves as a exercise track. The four lane track with a garden median is a boon for early morning walkers, joggers, runners and cyclists. They can carry on with their activities without bothering much about vehicular traffic. In fact even dogs are found relaxing here before BRTS coaches start plying.

Wishing that our infrastructure developments serve more than one purpose. It would providing conveniences at the cost of lesser resources.

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Tuprikai Hoovu

 Thruprikai is a gourd which looks like ridge gourd. Thuprikai doesn't have well defined ridges, rather it is rounded. These bright yellow beauties are Thuprikai flowers, grown on its creeper.

The flower transforms into a gourd over several weeks and needs few more weeks to develop fully. Thuprikai is made into spicy curries which goes well with jolada rotti or chapati.

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sunrise of Feb-11-2021

 A unique cloud formation on the horizon..

Several minutes later, the sharp edge of the dagger formation is blurred by the effect of wind.

Sun lights up the clouds in shades of orange and gold.

Every morning at daybreak, Indian Kites take off from their homes, some where on the outskirts, in search of food.

At the end of the day, the kites can be seen flying in the opposite direction. When they fly back home, they are in a huge group spread around widely, may be hundred or two hundred. Seems like they stay on few large trees on a hillock near Navalur village.

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Shri Kalmeshwara Devasthana, Kelageri

This is a unique temple of Dharwad. The temple building is a huge Shivalinga with a five headed serpent over it. This gigantic Shivalinga was built around 2012 or 2013. These three pictures were shot at different times. The first one few years back, during rainy season. Second and third were shot in Mar-2021 and Feb-2021 respectively.

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