A dramatic prelude to today's rain...

7th October, Sunday
If the prelude was this dramatic, today's director for the "Aakash Natak Company" decided to up the drama meter to an all-time high and the rain itself that followed was at it's histrionic best...!! Well, the heated practice sessions of the past few days were indeed a guaranteed indication of the fantabulous show that was to come...
I'm sure the thunderous applause and echoes of encore, encore have done the needful and we're surely gonna have repeat shows...

At the entrance to Shanti Nagar, near Laxmi Talkies... You can see the side wall of Laxmi Talkies in the left background...
Shanti Nagar is the new annex to Mission compound that's replaced the lovely "Tamarind" grove where we had many an adventure during our childhood days at Granny's house...

Notice the building under construction? Every nook and corner of Dharwad is getting packed with shoddy replicas of flats and shopping complexes from B'luru...

In front of Hotel Hoysala, opposite Kittel College. Looking towards Jubilee Circle... Look at the number of "Complexes" that have come up along this road...! And on the Hotel Dharwad side, many old bungalows have given way to Shopping Centers/Complexes...

The quaint old Karnatak Bhavan hotel/lodge of the wooden trellis-front fame, (Which was home to my mother's family for quite a few years) has be replaced by a new glass n' steel structure...

Outside the new Reliance Fresh store beside Brindavan lodge...
This is the huge shopping complex that's come up in the place where the Manjanbail's "City Light Lodge" once stood. Looking at Court Circle...