Dedicated to some memories of Trivandrum

Some of the images of TVM city remain with you wherever you go. These were the ones that I took while I was in the KPN bus enroute to Bangalore city.



This is the new underpass in Palayam. Probably, this is the single new construction of infrastructure in the city after the Technopark. It was supposed to reduce the traffic clog at the junction, but there is hardly any traffic on this road, so lets hope that it wil take care of the future traffic.



The Public Library at Palayam. Well, as the construction suggests, it was built by the British. Not as popular as the British library in the city, but it is much bigger and poorly managed. I have been inside couple of times.




That’s the Chandrasekhar Nair stadium. Named after a person who was a senior officer (dunnowhat was his post) in the Kerala Police who was immensely interested in Sports (football I guess). Most of the Trivandrum League matches are played here, with SBT playing there home matches here in this ground when they were playing in the NFL. It is a floodlit stadium, which has also witnessed a couple of International friendlies. But the new stadium at Ernakulam has overshadowed it in the recent past. It also provides a huge space for the movie posters to be pasted.




That’s the brand new Secretariat building. This houses the new assembly room, which is considered a state of the art building. The whole premise is breath-takingly beautiful, with nice gardens and fountains in the front. Never got to see the inside of the building. Built in traditional Mallu style is a mix of the modern with the traditional.



That’s Pattom junction. The place where I spent most of my time after school. I stayed close to the school which means I stayed close to this junction. It was nice hanging around with friends after class and seeing them off and then going home. The junction has been widened, but the tree in the middle of the junction is still there.



The first mall in Trivandrum. It came long before all the hi-tech malls came up in other cities. Built in 1994 or maybe even before, I am sure there are still some office spaces which are vacant. Built by the Trivandrum Development Authority (TRIDA for short) and situated in Kesavadasapuram, rightly called Kedaram. Ajeesh and I have very good memories of this place in 1996 when we escaped a major panga with some local college gang. I think this place is still not a very cool place.

So that’s about it about some of the places that I could take snaps of in Trivandrum

~sujith