Canada Place
Originally uploaded by slakhs.
One Canada Square, is the tallest building in London and for that matter U.K. It is located in a redeveloped former dockland called Canary Wharf, which for a skyscraper buff like me, is paradise.

If any Indian city desperately needed it, it was Bangalore. In the last few years, Bangalore had become synonymous with traffic jams. With the politicians throwing a hurdle at every proferred solution, things were indeed looking bleak. Here comes a piece of good news as a welcome relief. The central cabinet has cleared Bangalore Metro. [...]

Oxford Street is London’s Usman Road, the main shopping centre of London. It has huge departmental stores like Selfridges, Marks & Spencers, Debenhams etc and shops of most other major retailers. Bond Street, branching off Oxford street, is for more upmarket and designer shops.

This photo was taken a while back (around Christmas)

If any more proof is required for the dictum ‘Law is an ass’, the honorable members of the Cauvery tribunal were more than willing to provide it. After 16 years, endless arguments, an interim award, agitations, riots, deaths and damages, two of the three members have asked for a new expert committee to look into [...]

Stonehenge is a world heritage site. It is an arrangement of heavy stones (some 7 tonnes, some upto 50 tonnes) in a (sort of) circular form. This pre-historic site’s (4-7000 years old) claim to fame is, no one knows who did this or why or how. The British tourism board and the package tourist companies [...]

Bigben_Pano
Originally uploaded by slakhs.
I had been maintaining a separate travel blog ‘XLNT Travels‘ but not been able to update it much recently. Planning to revive the travelog but will put it up in Chennaispot itself. Will be kicking it off with some reports of travels undertaken in UK
Picture taken from top of London Eye and [...]