Cubbon Park falls somewhere on the scale between place of national pride and a handy location for people to sleep at 11:00 in the morning. Half the grounds are meticulously maintained, including the fountains and pavilions, by scores of workers weeding the grass by hand and maintaining the sidewalks by means of thatch brushes. (What counts for a sidewalk, however, is clearly under disputation, as three sides of a square are kempt while the fourth is completely
abandoned.) The other half of the park is overrun by packs of feral yet friendly dogs and security officers who won't let you take a picture of anything. Plants? Yeah, don't photograph those. Building closed because it's Monday? Off limits. You guys? "We don't like photos." Still, it's a nice place to avoid death by traffic as most of the paths are restricted to pedestrians. The center of the park butts up against the Attara Kacheri, or High Court. Lovely building, but
as most things are, at least on Mondays, closed to the public. This includes the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, or visual arts museum, and the Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technical Museum. I'll try to stop back here on the return from Mysore.
Fortunately, the Indian Air and Space Program are displayed on the lawn, and no one cares if you take pictures of those.
Cubbon Park falls somewhere on the scale between place of national pride and a handy location for people to sleep at 11:00 in the morning. Half the grounds are meticulously maintained, including the fountains and pavilions, by scores of workers weeding the grass by hand and maintaining the sidewalks by means of thatch brushes. (What counts for a sidewalk, however, is clearly under disputation, as three sides of a square are kempt while the fourth is completely
abandoned.) The other half of the park is overrun by packs of feral yet friendly dogs and security officers who won't let you take a picture of anything. Plants? Yeah, don't photograph those. Building closed because it's Monday? Off limits. You guys? "We don't like photos." Still, it's a nice place to avoid death by traffic as most of the paths are restricted to pedestrians. The center of the park butts up against the Attara Kacheri, or High Court. Lovely building, but
as most things are, at least on Mondays, closed to the public. This includes the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, or visual arts museum, and the Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technical Museum. I'll try to stop back here on the return from Mysore.
Fortunately, the Indian Air and Space Program are displayed on the lawn, and no one cares if you take pictures of those.
1 comment:
Great photos. Show us more. Sounds like you're having a good time, and the prose are terrific.
Dad
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