My son wanted to meet his 'mama' on the occasion of the mama's homecoming from a trek in Ladakh.. and i had the whole saturday evening to myself..
Went on my bike this time to Gandhi Bazaar after a long long time..Oh! the delight of a two-stroke motorcycle! kick start is as easy as electric start and acceleration is better than any other vehicle... :)
amidst the traffic - there is hardly place for even two-wheelers to squeeze through - (one should just ban cars on the thoroughfare - rather build that underpass - build a multistoreyed parking lot - maybe under the ground!) there are two shops that you must visit..
one of course is Ankita bookstore.. this is a gem of a bookstore.. famous for being a kannada book publisher.. in case you are interested in some serious literature in the vernacular this is the place to come to... they also stock a lot of books on philosophy, music, and many other genres!
another place, which one might easily miss, is Nataraj stores - opposite vidhyarthi bhavan.. This is the place which has been catering to the oil needs for many decades of basavangudi for many decades now.. they sell cold-pressed oils - gingelly, groundnut, etc.. Cold pressed oil is the rage these days among the organo-conscious (even though the preference might be for cold pressed olive oil).. However, cold-pressed groundnut oil used to be the staple oil for us south indians.. so i brought half a liter - which the proprietor's son poured into a plastic cover and heat-sealed. In the old days it used to be the steel oil container which i would carry in one hand and bicycle through to our old home in Basavangudi..
last, but not the least, was taking back home congress kadalekaibeeja... spicy roasted peanut halves, from srinivasa bakery on DVG road!!!
What a day!
