Ababdoned temple

Conservatives and the Government wanted the place go back to nature

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Dinesh ^club

Re: The abandoned mining town of Kudremukha (Karnataka)
Sad to see the images of this “Ghost Town”. It is reminescent of ‘Radiator Springs’ in the movie ‘Cars’.

My Dad planted tea in Kalasa/ Samse area in his last posting before his retirement in the 1990’s. I have been all over those places with him in his Jeep.

And I too, remember the Kudremukha KIOCL office and processing unit and township very well. It was a bustling place as you said with a lot of Central Govt Engineers and others. I also remember they had that metal pipeline to transport the mined iron ore slurry down the hills by taking advantage of gravitational forces. Those pipes must also have rusted away by now.

On a slightly wisftful, nostalgic and philosophical note; ( today being Monday, that probably has some blame to take.)

Thinking more deeply about it, India’s vision for self sufficiency and industrial development and the infra that they built in the old days, was really quite fantasic considering the perpetually limited resources.

Shows the shift to the knowledge based economy in a way.

All these ‘Company Townships’ built amidst nature in remote districts at the source of the physical raw material have now given way to mega office campuses in the cities where most of the knowledge workers are.

In a way the old ‘pioneering’ spirit is gone.
I always feel that way when visiting the tea and coffee plantation districts. Imagine the vision, energy, relentless pioneering spirit that those men must have had to carve out swathes of mountainous inhospitable fever ridden and wild animal infested land and physically plant tea and coffee.

Our generation, by contrast, is well softened and well-fattened!

Leads to moral decay, corruption of the soul and eventual decline of the civilisation.

www.team-bhp.com/forum/travelogues/262429-abandoned-mining-town-kudremukha-karnataka-2.html

2 months ago. Edited 2 months ago.

Roger (Grisly) ^club

Interesting image and text Dinesh!

2 months ago.

Annemarie ^club

Have a nice Saturday!

2 months ago.

William Sutherland ^club

Excellent capture!

2 months ago.

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