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        Deepavali as celebrated in the residence of 
           Mytri Acharya in Pennsylvania, USA where they 
           live.

          

        Deepawali lights at an Indian residence
           in Auckland, New Zealand
           Prasad Rao 
           [nprasad_rao@hotmail.com]

        Diwali Photos: Bright lights filling Young hearts!
           Hari Saravanan
           [rhss26@rediffmail.com]


        Rain havoc in Bangalore
           Reader S Nagaraj shares some of the photos that
           he took on Sunday morning...
           
          

            Good Job
            Rain photos by Nagaraj at Bommanahall 
            area was well taken by our friends 
            and family at USA. Good job nagaraj.
            Dr.Chandra Sekhar  
            [redwine62@hotmail.com]

        Lord in the lemon
               Couple of days back my aunt noticed an odd
            lemon in her lemon tree. Soon it started
            resembling Lord Ganesha.
           

       Halloween at Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
           Diwali or Halloween, what's the difference?
           Arun Iyer
           [arunksiyer@gmail.com]

          


          Deepavali Celebrated in N.G.Murali's
              flat in Sharjah
          

          In several parts of USA, Deepavali is
              an occasion for social get together and
              reunions, often celebrated at a friend’s
              house with  fireworks and fine clothing.
              Here’s a picture of newly-weds at their
              first Deepavali.
              -Aparna Natarajan
               Littleton, CO
          

Bangalori Angrezi Drives You Crazy
(and drove this writer literally out of town!)
                 
I spent a year at Bangalore and gleaned a harvest of Bangalorean English words... Here we go...           
                       Dr Rajeshwar Singh

Learn our language 
                                           Hima Chandrashekar
Grateful to Bangalore
                                           Sharad Mohan
`Satarong’ and `sataroller’
                                           Sharmila Shankar
Passionate response
                                           Madhu Kempaiah
Accommodating
                                           Malini  
Circles turned lanes  
                                   Suresh Anantharaya Nayak
Great attitude
                                           Madhav Rao
A visitor’s experience
                                           Venkatesh Chakrapani  
Impractical expectation  
                                           Pradeep Bellave
Luv for Banglore, Bangaloreans Always!!!
                                           Veena Narayan
Be glad you got directions in English
                                           Kannada_sishya  
I did not find Dr.Rajeshwar Singh’s article humorous.  
                                           Vikas
Hello! in Bangalore - Hi there! in N America
                                           Purandhar
Prickly
                                  RN Ganesh
Packed to go!
                                  Udaya Kumar YC
Bangalore-isms
                                           Perry Naik
I have lived in Bangalore for 24 yrs 
                                           suchin 
Apun Ko Nahin Aata
                                           Harsha Sathyanarayan 
Not Bangalori
                                           Sampath, Srinidhi
Greetings Mr Singh
                                           Anmol NM
Bangalore has one of the highest concentration
                                           Ravi Nittur
Lexical variation
                                           Dr. Chandra Shekar
Find the goodness
                                  Raghavendra U. H
Good English
                                           chandrashekar patil
Go with the world
                                           Dr. M D Megharaj 
Not unusual
                                  Sudhir Bijanki
Land of the Living
                                           Pratap
See the funny side
                                           _{Ameetha Venkataraman}
Idiosyncrasy
                                           Rahul Nadagouda
Nothing amiss
                                  Syed
Oddities notwithstanding
                                           Milton Keynes
Asli Angrezi' from locals? 
                                           Dr KV Raghuram
Will the writer keep running
                                           Namita
Different styles same language
                                           Mahendra
English is spoken in a different way
                                                         Niveditha
The English Language
                                           Diwakar
Once a Banglorean always a Banglorean
                                                         Mytri
I recently met a student in the US 
                                                          Shakti
Greetings from a Bangalorean
                                                          Ezekiel
Over here in Toronto people use
                                                          Vasant Hegde
Mysore is always 'Maisore'
                                                          Raghunath
I think we should appreciate the fact
                                                          Kay Klare
Local words are used freely
                                            Vaijanath R B 
Cross-fertilisation of cultures
                                            Mohan
25 languages
                                                           Nawaz Zahed
Chill, folks!
                                            John Arun
For better or for worse
                                            Lakshmi Swaroop
Be thankful
                                            Shankar 
Always accommodating
                                            Srini V Kaveri
Be more tolerant 
                                           Girish Shivanand
Of Bangalore Angrezi and Sour Grapes
                                            Jan Mohammed
Queen's English?
                                           Vidyashankar Samaga
Every region has its own peculiarities in speaking
                                            Narayan
Hindi in English!
                                            Prashant Mohan
Kannadigas accept others easily
                                            Namita
Bangalore is unique
                                             Chandra Shekar
Let's take it sportingly
                                             Anil Nandakumar
English is English
                                             Parimala
Frog in the well
                                             Balaji
Friendly City
                                             Shashi Shivaswamy
MustAndShouldu…
                                             Nagendra Rao
`By two coffee'
                                             Sargur Srihari
Don't take it seriously!
                                             Ranganathan Iyengar
I have visited over 25 countries
                                              Kumar Subramanya
Child bear?
                                              Joel Joel Pinto
Bangaloreans are very tolerant
                                              Shiva Prasad 
We are not Englishmen
                                              Ravishankar
Mature response
                                              Dr K Muralidhara
Humour accepted
                                     Andrew Fernandez
Thanks to Bangalore
                                          Bernard Devasahayam
Multi-cultural city
                                               Jagdish Kalkunte
Learn our language 
                                              Hima Chandrashekar
Grateful to Bangalore
                                              Sharad Mohan 
`Satarong’ and `sataroller’
                                              Sharmila Shankar
Passionate response
                                             Madhu Kempaiah
Accommodating
                                              Malini
Circles turned lanes  
                                        Suresh Anantharaya Nayak
Great attitude  
                                     Madhav Rao
A visitor's experience   
                                   Venkatesh Chakrapani
Impractical expectation  
                                               Pradeep Bellave
Luv for Bangalore, Bangaloreans Always!!!
                                               Veena Narayan
Chill out Doc! 
                                               Kannada_sishya
how can someone come to a conclusion 
                                               Vikas
I am from 18th main Jayanagar, Bangalore
                                               Purandhar