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[greenyogi @greenyohgi]

@chairmanbwssb Great! What tondonif BWSSB has dug up a road and didn't bother to repair/restore even after 2-3 months, even after complaining??

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Bangalore, 1924.

3 brothers: Parameshwara, Ganappayya, and Yagnanarayana Maiya, left a small village near Udupi looking for work, and ended up as cooks in private Bangalore households.

In 1924, Parameshwara, backed by his own employer's support, took the leap alongside Ganappayya: a tiny eatery on Lalbagh Fort Road, serving just coffee and idlis.

They called it, plainly, the Brahmin Coffee Club.

5 years later, Parameshwara died...

Yagnanarayana, "Yagnappa" to everyone who knew him, joined in to help Ganappayya run it, and it is here the story actually starts accelerating.

In 1951, Yagnappa made an almost unthinkable move for a small South Indian eatery of that era: he traveled to Europe, purely to study how restaurants there operated.

He came back and rebuilt the place from the inside out, modern sterilization of utensils, an open kitchen customers could actually see into, an obsessive new standard for hygiene that no comparable Bangalore eatery had at the time.

1960. A new address, and a new name.

The restaurant moved to its now legendary location on Lalbagh Road, and Yagnappa renamed it after the neighbourhood it now called home: Mavalli Tiffin Rooms, MTR.

Rava idli, arguably MTR's most famous dish, was born as a wartime workaround, not a planned invention.

When rice, the entire foundation of a traditional idli, grew scarce during World War II, MTR's cooks experimented with roasted semolina instead.

Similar rice-substitution ideas may well have existed elsewhere along the South Canara coast, but it is MTR that took the workaround, refined it, and made it famous enough to become a genuine national breakfast staple.

1975. The Emergency and the day MTR chose to lose money in public rather than lower its standards.

During the Indian Emergency, the government summoned 5 of Bangalore's best known restaurants, MTR among them, and ordered them to sell food at fixed, government-mandated low prices under the new Food Control Act.

Every restaurant had the same choice: comply, and compromise on quality / refuse.

Some paid up.

Others quietly cut corners on ingredients to survive the mandated prices.

MTR did neither....

They kept the food exactly as good as it had always been and instead, put up a board outside the restaurant, visible to everyone walking past, openly stating the day's financial losses.

For 16 straight days, MTR served its usual quality at a mandated loss, refusing to cut a single corner, telling the public exactly what that integrity was costing them in real rupees.

On the 16th day, they closed the doors.

The exile that accidentally built a 2nd empire.

The restaurant stayed shut for 6 years. But to keep the family's staff employed during that gap, they started selling spice blends and roasted flour mixes out of the adjoining grocery store.

That improvised survival move became the seed of an entirely separate business, taking shape as MTR Foods through the mid to late 1970s, even as company histories still trace the brand's true origin back to 1924.

The restaurant itself finally reopened in 1981, the same building, the same standards, the same stubbornness.

Meanwhile, the packaged foods arm, eventually led by Yagnappa's son Sadananda Maiya, kept growing on its own trajectory, expanding beyond Karnataka into Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh by 1984, earning ISO and HACCP certification around 2002, and reaching export markets including Japan and other countries by the mid 2000s.

In 2007, Sadananda Maiya sold MTR Foods to Orkla, a Norwegian conglomerate that, by the time of this deal, was operating as a branded foods player, for ~$80M.

It is a quiet irony sitting at the heart of this story: the packet of MTR rava idli mix sold in an Indian supermarket today is owned by a Norwegian company, while the original restaurant on Lalbagh Road, the place all of it started from, remains entirely family-run, corporately unrelated to the brand printed on the packet, still standing on the same street, still serving the same dishes, over a century after 3 brothers with no money and a borrowed leg up from an old employer decided to open a coffee stall.

- A migrant family from a small coastal village.

- A European study trip that modernized Indian hospitality decades ahead of its peers.

- A wartime rice shortage that turned into a national breakfast staple.

- A government mandate that a family chose to lose money against rather than cheapen their food, in public, on a signboard, for two full weeks.

- And an improvised survival hustle during a forced shutdown that eventually became a bigger business than the restaurant that spawned it.

That is a 100 year lesson in refusing to compromise, told entirely through idli and dose.

[greenyogi @greenyohgi]

@TheRubric_Medic NHAI is implementing agency, land acquisitions is state subject. delays due to railway clearance standoffs, administrative backlogs, and pending approval. Some portion of red line goes thru core bannerghatta forest. Political blamegames

[Aviator Anil Chopra @Chopsyturvey]

GenZ and genA bluff explained very nicely.

[महावीर, ಮಹಾವೀರ, Mahavir @Mahaveer_VJ]

2 minutes of Smriti Irani can blunt the entire narrative of the IMBECILE GenZ and Opposition

[greenyogi @greenyohgi]

@ecitycredence No point fooling people with sensational posts. Daadys Garden layout falls under Hebbagodi City Municipal Council, Anekal tk. which collects taxes & is supposed to maintain the civic infra. Electronic city is just 903 acres "industrial area" developed by Keonics.

[Kumar Bhanu @KBSharm63460260]

Sri Sri Sanniidhanam 🙏 #SringeriJagadGuru. Chanting beautifully and telling all the devotees, including children, to recite this and attain Shreyas in their lives. Sri Sri Saccidananda Shivaabhinava Nrsimhabharati MahaSwami Ji Virachita Sri Vagdevi Stavah.(shlokha)

[greenyogi @greenyohgi]

@somudwi @ecitycredence @MkrishnappaMla @osd_cmkarnataka @GBA_office @comm_blr_south @ELCIA_IN @DKShivakumar Wonder what the panchayats & TMC do with the crores of taxes collected from the properties?

[Padmaja Joshi @PadmajaJoshi]

Word of the day: Free Speech
I stand with Ruchica Singh’s right to free speech, as long as it’s not a call to violence or harming someone.

But I don’t see this outrage over crushing of free speech on other occasions when it truly matters.
Why?

[Keh Ke Peheno @coolfunnytshirt]

Good one!
Isha Koppikar very articulately explains the casual way leftist liberals and Gen Z cockroaches use the word "dictatorship".

And, "the parents should teach academics also, and civics also"

[greenyogi @greenyohgi]

@JIX5A Not one of the thousands who joined CJP nationwide had raised a point to clean the education/test system. No one will fight for the real minority GC. Its the same world over. Once benefits are doled out, it rarely sees a roll back. Bite the bitter pill, sallow, return to business

[greenyogi @greenyohgi]

@RajeswariAiyer @EduMinOfIndia
@narendramodi
@AmitShah
@palkisu
@republic
@TimesNow
@ANI
@ARanganathan72
@jsaideepak
#EducationReforms

[greenyogi @greenyohgi]

@rajendranath_r @OpIndia_com @immortalsoulin Just a thought - suppose an employee of the Tata Group is corrupt and sells company secrets or buys competitors secrets by unethical men's, Ratan Tata should resign, right? Why no talk about 1.87L deaths due to road accidents? Then @nitin_gadkari should resign, right? #cjp

[greenyogi @greenyohgi]

@hpareek @mohakmangal wonder how many education ministers, prime ministers resigned in these many years!

[greenyogi @greenyohgi]

@bengalurupost1 Congratulations! In about 10 years, these saplings, if they survive, will become beautiful trees.
The areas will be notified into new layouts for residential/commercial/industrial & all these will be wiped out or will outgrow footpaths & get axed.
Its experience, not cynicism.

[greenyogi @greenyohgi]

@choga_don No one can predict crowd behaviour, irrespective of country or nationality, gender or performer. It's a shame, but there are numerous such instances, with perpetrators getting off with lenient punishments

[greenyogi @greenyohgi]

@DrSaranshverma @medicopenia_155 @IMAIndiaOrg @DrMeet_Ghonia @FordaIndia @sarkari_doctor @IYmr1998 @DrDhruvchauhan @bhatia_nachiket @ima_jdn A judge with legal knowledge and also common sense - uses a mix of both to deliver justice!

[greenyogi @greenyohgi]

@bengalurupost1 Hundreds of confiscated vehicles are parked endlessly around Police stations! Who will bell the cat?

[greenyogi @greenyohgi]

@KBGBlrDevUpdate @DeccanHerald @THBengaluru Pl define "abandoned vehicle". Is it more than one day or one week or one month? Pasting no parking on overnight parked vehicles nesr homes isnt right and going overboard @TOIIndiaNews @Jointcptraffic