You can change the walls of Bangalore, but can you change, well, the balls of Bangaloreans? The Brihan Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is using innovative techniques to inspire civic sense among citizens. At Mysore Bank circle on Saturday, a churumuri vendor waits for customers in front of a new painting hailing the beauty of Pattadakallu while warning of a Rs 500-fine if assets disproportionate to known sources of income are revealed in front of it.
Photograph: Saggere Ramaswamy/ Karnataka Photo News
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Tags: BBMP, Churumuri, Karnataka Photo News, KPN, Pattadakallu, Sans Serif
6 September 2009 at 7:41 pm
hahah! super.
6 September 2009 at 7:44 pm
brilliant job by BBMP. i hope more such paintings come up and more such chitrakaras flourish. i have always said this, give all those underpasses and others as canvases. apparently KA the number of historical monuments in maintained by ASI in KA, is next only to UP.
but calligraphy is another matter. kaNNu kukkutte. our bangala bandhus have developed awesome calligraphy around their script. every bangla kid fancies his chances as a calligrapher, we have only raghupathi bhaTTru and Mohhammad Quaza sahebru. Though Ismail raayru also dabbles in some i heard.
churumuri nice writing:
assets disproportionate to known sources of income are revealed in front of it.
6 September 2009 at 8:19 pm
Is this warning applicable only to male? :-)
7 September 2009 at 12:25 am
It is better eat Panipuri than release pani !
7 September 2009 at 9:49 am
At K R Market circle, just under the flyover, right next to the BBMP toilet, people use the wall as a piss-let corner. The footpath is so narrow, that it is impossible to walk on the footpath because you have rivulets of piss flowing all over the footpath, leaving in its wake a disugsting stench too unbearable for words to express.
I noticed that last week during the festival period, stacks of banana leaves brought in by farmers and traders, were stacked right up against this piss wall which actually runs for more than 100 metres.
Yuck.
7 September 2009 at 12:48 pm
In Chennai also corporation is painting the walls of Anna salai
7 September 2009 at 1:52 pm
How about providing clean toilets close to these ‘troubled areas’? Or spot fines of at least Rs. 100/- or a stint in the local police station cleaning station toilets?
7 September 2009 at 7:54 pm
paTTada “kallu” ಮೇಲೆ ಮೂತ್ರವಿಸರ್ಜನೆ ಮಾಡುವವರು ನಾಯಿಗಳು ಎನ್ನುವುದು understood (stood on three legs, with hind one lifted).
8 September 2009 at 1:30 am
@DB, My thoughts exactly. While I appreciate BBMP’s innovative method of encouraging wall art, I hope at least an equal amount of money and time is going towards constructing of toilets in the vicinity of some of the more frequented spots of the city.
8 September 2009 at 4:31 am
I showed this churumuri post to a fellow-kannaDiga, a senior friend/ well-wisher and mentor of mine here in the US. He has an excellent sense-of-humor and also a flair for Kannada literature- reading&writing both. He scribbled the following ‘ಆಶು ಕವಿತೆ’ and sent it to me. I am sharing it with the readers of churumuri-
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ನಿಲ್ಲು ನಿಲ್ಲು ಇದು ಪಟ್ಟದ ಕಲ್ಲು
ಗಬ್ಬು ವಾಸನೆ ಬರದಿರಲಿ ಇಲ್ಲು
ತುಂಬಾ ಅವಸರವಾದರೆ ಮಾತ್ರ
ಧೈರ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಹುಯ್ಯಿರಿ ಮೂತ್ರ
ಪೋಲೀಸಪ್ಪನು ಬರುವನು ಆಗ
ರೂ. ಐನೂರನು ಕೊಡದಿರಿ ಬೇಗ
ಇನ್ನೂರೈವತ್ತು ಲಂಚವೆ ಸಾಕು
ಕೋರ್ಟು-ಕಚೇರಿ ಯಾರಿಗೆ ಬೇಕು?
ಮಿಕ್ಕ ದುಡ್ಡಿನಲಿ ಚುರುಮುರಿ ತಿನ್ನಿ
ಬೃಹತ್ ಬೆಂಗ್ಳೂರಿಗೆ ಜೈ-ಜೈ ಎನ್ನಿ!
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8 September 2009 at 9:54 am
LET US HOPE SPREAD OF PISSICULTURE STOPS. LET US NOT BE PISSIMISTIC!
7 October 2009 at 10:22 am
I recently saw one fellow, pissing on these paintings. May be the people at least waited till the paint dried, or at least the artist left the place after finishing his work. A plain white wall is also as beautiful as these paintings, if you keep it white.
Those who never care for cleanliness of the walls, will they ever care for pattada kallu or beluru shila balike? Its just a way to spend money, for bengaluru mahanagarapalike!
Just wait for couple of months, all these walls will have pan stains, piss smell.
10 June 2010 at 9:14 am
Maybe asking the offender to clean up if caught will be a better punishment.