List of Day Cares for infants in Marthahalli/outer ring road area, Bangalore

Tom and Jerry - Varthur road - 4500 per month
This place is located in a quiet neighbourhood in BEML layout. Takes infants over 6 months. Has a decent ratio of kids/Teacher and Kids/helpers. It is set up in an independent house. There is a grill in the front portion of the house which keeps the kids safe. When we went to see the place, it was cleanly kept. There were stairs inside the house which were leading upto the top floor which is not occupied by the day-care. There is one room for sleeping. There are lot of beds sprawled on the floor. There were a few cribs for the young ones.

Kidzee - outer ring road (between Marthahalli and KR puram)
This is a chain. However, they do not accept kids below 1.5 years
http://kidzee.com/
AppleKids
This is a new franchise opened up in Marthahalli area. We didnt visit the place but from the website it does seem like a nice place.
http://applekids.in/

Kara International - Sarjapur Road - 7000 per month (overall)
This is truly world-class day-care. They even have pick up and drop off at additioal costs.
http://www.kara.in
Nand Gokul - Rajashree Layout - Marthahalli - 5000 per month
This is brand new and is set up in a quiet neighbourhood in the ground floor of an independent house. It is safe but I found it too small a place for the kids. It is still very very new. They had only 2 children at the time we visited. They were ready to accept children above 6 months.
http://nandgokul.com/
Podar Happy Kids - Sarjapur road (right next to Total Mall) - 5000-6000 per month http://podarhappykids.com
They accept children over one year. They have a very large place. Separate outdoor play area. Segragation of toddlers from infants, CCTVs and other things. Found it to be a bit on the expensive side. However, we liked it the most in the neighbourhood.

Vidyarambh - Sarjapur Road - 4500 per month
Infants are cared-for in a small apartment. The place is clean and the only teacher present at the time we visited looked well-trained. There were other 20-somethings ladies assisting her and we felt they were pretty OK. There is an attached play-home for older children (over 2 years) near by. The place has a tie-up with Wipro. It did seem pretty OK. This would have been next in the list for us. http://www.vidyarambh.com/

Soul of a new machine

What really runs this world is the passion of a few men. As in most professions, it is the creative urge which drives every good engineer. Wallach architects many machines which do not end up going to the market. He is on the verge of becoming a cynic when he gets prodded on to create a 32-bit version of an existing machine. Tracy Kidder describes the story of the hard work and the passion that goes into building this new machine.

Interesting Read.

check out this URL

We shd have Rama sing for this one!

www.midomi.com

lemon projects?

Suraash does this sound familiar? Lemon projects? Are you involved, here?

This is the road right behind ITPL, Bangalore. I have written to KIADB, which maintains everything in this area today. I will write about it if I get a response. This will be my first social responsibility thing since I came back.

MarathaHalli

I have been in Bangalore for only 8 months. Yet to figure out which one is the most beautiful part, but I definitely know the worst part. MarathaHalli. I will post some pictures soon but this blogger summarizes what I feel.

Current Status of road-over-railway bridge: One side was completed 5 months back. The other side is yet to get done, because the central part which runs over the railway line needs to be built by the dept of railways. It is understandable that it would take 2x time when there are 2 govt. depts involved.

Market Area: Marathahalli's market area is unique. It caters to the poor people (these stalls are right on the road), the rich (there are dazzling brand showrooms, interior decoration and furniture shops,), and the middle class. There are several shops which sell "Nike" shoes for 100 Rs, "Van Heusen" shirts for Rs. 199.

Traffic: In theory, the roads are wide enough for 2 lanes on each side. One of these is used by hawkers, people walking on the roads . There is a bus-stop here (no shelter, there is only one small sign). In the evenings, the number of people waiting for a bus runs into hundreds. Buses are usually overcrowded. I saw some old people in the bus, some of them with faces pressed against the rear glass.

Footpath: Exists, but is unusable for several reasons. 1. Very uneven pavement 2. Open drains 3. Other intermittent blocks, like electric poles, support for electric poles.

Powercuts: Street lights are not on because of powercuts.

Rain: When it rains, (even if it does not pour), drains overflow on to the roads.

Wineshops: Throw cheap liquor and poor construction workers into the equation and imagine now, you are walking on the footpath, and there is rain and powercut. Your evening walk can become pretty unpleasant.

This is Maratha'Hell'y.

baby Medha!