Trans Indus is in the extreme south of Bangalore, approximately 15 Km south of J.P. Nagar.
If you are hiring a taxi, you need to tell the driver to go towards 'Art of Living' Campus on Kanakpura Road.
The landmarks are as follows:
At the J P Nagar Ring Road and Kanakpura Road Crossing, there is a Departmental Store called Family Mart.
Go down Kanakpura Road towards Kanakpura, keeping Family Mart on the right side of the road.
You will reach Metro, a large Wholesale Store, on the right side of the road. Keep going down.
5th KM. You will reach Konan Kunte, a locality. Keep going down.
7th KM. You will reach Doddakalahalli, another locality. Keep going straight.
10th KM. You will reach Talaghattapura. There is a police station on the right side of the road, just after the rumble strip. Keep going.
12th KM. You will reach a right turn for Valley School. Do NOT turn there. Keep going straight. You may start seeing signboards for Trans Indus
13th KM. At the next junction, turn right. The turn would be labelled Trans Indus or BGS International School. Go down this road till you reach a village called Tathaguni.
14th KM. Keep going down this road till you reach Panchvati School.
50 Yards further, there is a fork. The right leg of the fork goes on towards BGS International School. DO NOT TAKE THAT. Take the left fork. It is labelled Trans Indus.
Carry on down that small road for about 1.5 KM. You will reach Trans Indus Main Gate.
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Doctors |
We have some doctors resident on campus. Doctor Ramesh is an Ophthalmologist, Doctor Meena is a dentist, Doctor Girija is an oncologist and Doctor Shubha (a tenant in FB32) is a Gynecologist. All can help with first aid and general advice. |
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Pharmacies |
The nearest one is in Talaghattapura, 15 minutes away (there are at least 2) and one further up in Doddakalasandra, 20 minutes away. |
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Medical facilities |
A first aid kit, anti-snake serum and a stretcher is available at the Ayurshala. The nearest hospital with decent facilities is in Konan Kunte. Some of the residents have a membership card from Ramakrishna Hospital in Jayanagar which also provides TPA services. |
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Provision stores (wet/dry) |
Family Mart at the JP Nagar/Kanakpura Road crossing is the
nearest largest supermarket. The local Tathaguni and other villages can
provide you with basic vegetables and provisions. The
postman-cum-newspaper boy provides milk in the morning.
Wet stuff is available at Talaghattapura and for die-hard tipplers, the 'dhaba's on K'pura road will help. Of course, there is a burgeoning hooch industry within the campus. |
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Banks |
State Bank of Mysore, Doddakalasandra. TIRA banks with Canara Bank, Jayanagar. |
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Post/courier |
Tathaguni Post Office. You can give your letters to the postman/milkman. Speedpost comes to campus, but most couriers do not. Please provide phone number to the courier person. They will ring us to collect. |
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Restaurants who deliver food |
None. We do pot luck almost each week. Nearest Udupi joint is at Ishaan Darshan in Tathaguni. nearest tested Dhaba is 'The Chef" on Kanakpura road, 5 Km from campus towards Kanakpura. |
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Domestic help |
TIRA can provide you with a person. You can source your own from the nearest village. |
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Carpenters |
None on campus. You need to organize your own. |
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Plumbers |
Basic stuff can be handled by the resident plumber-cum-electrician. For major work, you need to get some one. |
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Electricians |
Basic stuff can be handled by the resident plumber-cum-electrician. For major work, you need to get some one. |
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Domestic gas |
Contact the TIRA Manager. |
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Automobile help |
None. Contact your dealer. |
There is a limited number of wires to the campus laid by BSNL. You may not get a connection using a land line. Your best bet is to get a WLL from BSNL or Reliance. Tata Telecom service is not reliable.
Despite what the BCIL brochure says, there is no 24 hour broadband connectivity. Your best bet is to get a WLL from BSNL / Reliance and connect the data port to the serial port of your computer using a cable. This gives you a theoretical connection of 128 KBPS.
We are now doing a signature campaign for Reliance to set up an optical fibre to our campus. This will allow broadband when Reliance starts such a service. we need 15 commitments.
The local cable operator provides around 80 channels for approx Rs. 250 per connection, Rs. 150 per extra connection. Make sure, when you are building a house, that your cable can handle 100 odd channels.
We have tested Dish TV (DTH) and it works fine. It costs Rs. 250 per month for 50 channels. It has Zee but not Sony or Star. You need to invest Rs. 7000 for a receiver and an antenna. In June 2004, Dish plans to dish out 100 channels. Negotiations are on with Star, I hear. We will keep you posted.
In the meantime, we hear that Vikram Kaushik (FB 40) has joined the JV that will handle Star DTH. Exciting times are ahead.
Well, they exist. There are 4 types of poisonous snakes (Cobra, Russell's Viper, Saw Scaled Viper and Krait - click on hyperlinks to see photo) found in the campus and some non poisonous ones. We do have snake lovers on the campus and the rest of the minority that does not like them.
We appreciate the ecological balance that they bring to the campus. However, it is better to be safe. So we carry a torch in the night and wear shoes if possible. We do not leave shoes outside in case some creepy crawlies like scorpions get into them. During rains centipedes and millipedes abound.
All the four species of venomous snakes (except cobra) existing in Bangalore
are nocturnal varieties. Unlike a python, Russells vipers have diamond-shaped
oval patches with longest solenoglyphous fangs
(like a hypodermic syringe) which is three-fourths an inch. In fact, this is a
snake with most intense delivery rate of heterotoxic venom. The defence
mechanism of a Russells viper is relatively sharper. Sometimes without the
hissing noise, it can strike just by sensing the body warmth
To avoid snakes, the following precautions must be taken. Rubbish around the house should be cleared. Rat holes should be filled and rats should be prevented from breeding in and around the house. Long tree branches touching the houses and creepers trailing the porches and window panes should be cut. Good boots should be used while walking through grassy area. Avoid stepping over any obstacle when the other side is not visible and use a torch while moving outside the house at night.
Snake Notes from the web:
There are around 2500 species of snakes in the world. Of these, only about 15% are poisonous. The maximum number of species of poisonous snakes is found in Australia (90% of the snakes are poisonous).
238 species of snakes are found in India. Of these, 72 are poisonous. But only few can cause serious or fatal bites. For example, Pit Vipers are poisonous but rarely prove fatal to human beings. The poisonous Big Four are (1) the Cobra, (2) the Krait, (3) the Russel's Viper, and (4) the Saw-Scaled Viper. Of these the most poisonous is the common Krait. Its venom is about four times more toxic than that of the Cobra.
Snakes are cold-blooded; their eyesight is very poorly developed and they have no eyelids. They are deaf and can only respond to vibrations. They taste, feel and smell with their forked tongue. These senses are very well developed and enable them to differentiate between living and dead creatures, prey or enemy.
A bite from a poisonous snake affects either the nervous system (neurotoxic) or the blood vessels (hemotoxic) of human beings. The only cure against snake bite is snake anti-venom.
Bites:
Some of the larger centipedes can inflict a painful bite, causing swelling and redness. Symptoms rarely persist for more than 48 hours. Millipedes do not bite but may secrete a toxin that is irritating, particularly when accidentally rubbed into the eye.
An ice cube placed on a centipede bite usually relieves the pain. Toxic secretions of millipedes should be washed from the skin with large amounts of soap and water. If a skin reaction develops, a corticosteroid cream should be applied. Eye injuries should be flushed with water (irrigated) immediately.
The stings of most scorpions require no special treatment. Placing an ice cube on the wound reduces pain, as does an ointment containing a combination of an antihistamine, an analgesic, and a corticosteroid.
While the size, quality of the venom and the degree of resistance of the
victim matter during a bite, experts suggest that a victim must first ensure the
availability of anti-venom before rushing to any hospital. There are anti-snake
venom serum (ASVS) available for all the four venomous species in the city --
Cobra, Krait, Russells viper and saw-scaled viper.
Scorpions.
For more details call the life time president of TSLA ( TIRA Snake Lovers Association): Ishaan Agarwal son of Srilekha Agarwal.
