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My 2nd weekend in Bangalore

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July 2nd 2006
This weekend was a fun one. On Saturday I got up and went shopping on Commercial Street and MG Road with a bunch of expats. We had a driver take us to Commercial Street but we took auto rickshaws the rest of the day. We squeezed 3 people in a rickshaw to go from Commercial to MG road. The beggars were out in full force. On the streets of Brigade road a woman with a baby kept approaching us an ... read more

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