07 August 2011 Class No. 6 at Gandhi Bazaar Market
Gandhi Bazaar in Basavanagudi is one of the oldest areas in Bangalore. It is the replica of the Bangalore of yore, with wide tree lined avenues dotted with houses. Commercialization has taken a toll in this area with excessive tree felling to introduce residential and business structures. This area is the cultural capital of Bengaluru with predominant kannadigas population and lot of festivities. It had very old traditional houses. The area is surrounded with lot of temples like Bull temple, Ramakrishna ashram and Shankar Matt.
Every year two day fair of peanuts is held near dodda ganapathi temple of Basavanagudi which is just 400 mts from Gandhi Bazaar Market, called Kadlekai Parashae (Groundnut Fair). Lot of different kinds of groundnuts are exhibited and sold during this time.
Many scholars, writers and musicians lived and are living in this area. One of the roads in Basavanagudi is named after great writer and philosopher of Karnataka D.V.Gundappa called DVG Road. This road is the commercial center of Gandhi Bazaar. Also on this road is Bangalore's traditional restaurant Vidyarthi Bhavan which is know for its crispy Masala dosa and Kara Bath.
It was a cloudy morning, rain was also playing hide and seek. as a organiser I am always early at the location, Vidyarthi bhavan was the meeting point, as it is famous for his dosa's I had texted all my participants to taste the dose's, Its always rush and i told everybody to be there by 9' Oclock incase they wish to taste the dose. I was there by 9, there was a long list of people waiting for there turn at the restaurant. As I was only one I got an opportunity to get inside and had my seat. It was 9:30 and I started getting sms one after the other, most of them were not comming for the days class, some were unwell, some had a meeting and some due to friendship day.
I came out of the restaurant only to seek 5 participants, few of the participants also tasted the dosa, at Vidyarthi Bhavan. We began the session by rapid sketches. As everybody in the batch are aware of human anatomy by now, we went further to sketch compositions. At the market one was told to sketch overall with human in their work. As usual Senthil gave a demonstration and everybody started to work at different places at gandhi bazaar market.
It was really disappointing that only a few were able to make to the class. But who ever were present enjoyed sketching and were able to do some good work.
We had to finish the class at 12:15 as it started dressing.
It would be good if you could post some of the students' work so that we could follow their progress through the course.
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