The Stumps Of Bangalore: Chinnaswamy Stadium

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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Outside Chinnaswamy Stadium

Just outside Chinnaswamy Stadium, conveniently close to the heart of the city, tourists, sports enthusiasts and casual passers-by can feast their orbs on this proud symbol of the new Bangalore. So central are artifacts like this to the city's emerging identity that a special police guard has been organised, no doubt to ensure the blasted stump doesn't try putting out roots again.

The Mission

The glass is half empty. Complacency won't prevent Bangalore from slowly but surely becoming another graceless, faceless concrete jungle. So that's why we have decided:

1. To spend the next three months chronicling the devastation of Bangalore's green cover by photographing the hundreds of stumps left behind every time another tree is felled.

2. To convert this into a pdf-only coffee table book to be entitled 'The Stumps Of Bangalore'.

3. To use the project and book to promote the concept of tree nurseries in private gardens than can be used to help seed the next generation of Bangalore's trees, which can then be planted in suitable places when the saplings are sufficiently well grown.