Kemmanagundi wild ventures: A project open for joint development

It is a matter related to my neighborhood, conveyed to me by Jonathan Couture, who lives close to the north pole and owns the renowned entity Mulligore Production.

Live in Wild Resort

Kemmanagundi, the famous hill station known to people for its panoramic view of mountains, cascading water falls and lush greelen vegetation, is surely a great break for heavily crowded and congested city dwellers.

For the tourists heading towards Kemmanagundi along the road from Tarikere, the spot selected for 'Live in Wild Resort' is an attracion. They stop there for a while, quench their thirst with the perennial water flow available there and proceed further. Enough indication the said resort, when operational, will be the most popular in the vicinity.

Accessibility

'Live in Wild Resort' will be a reality on Sy #s 20 and 21, Thigada grama, Lingadahalli Hobli, Tarikere Taluk, Chickamagaluru District, Karnataka - India.

It is owned by K M Anees ul-Haq (# 47, 2nd Cross, Vivekananda Nagar, Bangalore-560033; Cell #: 09448473515), former senior officer, AIR and Doordarshan in the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India. He has wide experience in tourism industry (in the states of Rajasthan, Jammu & Kashmir besides the strategic Agra), study of history and eco-culture. The project comprising 30 huts has been approved by Karnataka State Tourism Department, in support of Eco-Tourism. Ten acres of land has been converted for the purpose. Estimated cost of the project is 15Crs. Those who intend to be in touch with this project are requested to call M M Dev on Cell #s 91-7259093200, 91-9620067800 or message their purpose of contact through an SMS or e-mail to drmmd.intimate@gmail.com

It will be 270km away from Bengaluru, 40km from Chickamagaluru, 32km from Tarikere, 30km from Birur, 120km from Kudremukh and will be situated on an altitude of 1434mts/4704ft above mean sea level.

Facts

Kemmanagundi has been the summer retreat of Krisnaraja Wodeyar-4, the Maharaja of erstwhile State of Mysore. It is also known as K R Hills, after the Wodeyar king. Now it is the summer resort for Governor of Karnataka, just 7km away from the proposed 'Live in Wild Resort'.

Quite peaceful, serene, nesting amidst lush green forest and Coffee plantations, it is sure to revive and rejuvinate individuals physically, mentally and spiritually. Ringed by the Baba Budangiri ranges, blessed with silver cascades, mountain streams, dense growth of trees and plants, Kemmanagundi's beautifully laid out ornamental gardens, enchanting mountains and valley views are a treat to the eye.

The spectacular sunset view from the Raj Bhavan is a photographer's delight. For youths adventurous at heart, Kemmanagundi offers many peaks to scale and intricate jungle paths to explore.

Hebbe Falls

A trek from Kemmanagundi along a steep and narrow path leads to sprightly twin-fall surrounded by dense forests as well as coco and coffee plantations. Said water waterfall rushing down to a depth of 250ft in two stages is fondly named as 'Hebbe Falls'. This location is just 18kms away from the proposed 'Live in Wild Resort'.

Baba Budangiri range

The 1985mts/6220ft high peak takes its name from the sufi saint Baba Budan, who brought coffee seeds from Arabia, sowed and lived here. Situated in the Baba Budangiri is the Inam Dattatreya Peetha, venerated by Muslims and Hindus alike. This shrine is 25kms away from the proposed 'Live in Wild Resort'.





Shanti Falls

This waterfall separates the proposed 'Live in Wild Resort' from forest. A five-kms trek in the jungle along the stream intoxicates the adventure.

Silent valley

You witness this natural wonder just down the proposed 'Live in Wild Resort'. Tourist at this spot, cannot even hear the sound of a big blast happening on road 200ft above. Tall trees and flow of the stream provide the magical effect.

Ballavara

Setting of this town directly resembles a typical town's description in R K Narayan's novel. Agriculture, main occupation of Ballavara, simply adds up to natural blending of the beautiful landscape.



Lingadahalli

Point of specific interest in this town is a Hoysala temple, that dates back prior to the world famous temples of Halebidu and Belur. Lingadahalli is 14kms away from the proposed 'Live in Wild Resort'.

Belur and Halebidu 

These two historic capitals of Hoysala are situated within a stretch of 65kms from the proposed 'Live in Wild Resort'. Belur, best known for Chennakeshava temple complex (Built in 1116 A C to commemorate Hoysala Visnuvardhana's victory over Cholas. Facade filled with intricate sculptures, freezed with no portion left blank, it took 103 years to construct this temple), could be reached after drive of 40kms. The gorgeous twin Shiva temple in Halebidu is equipped with two sanctum sanctoriums (one beside the other), a common platform and a common broad navaranga.

Bhadra reserve and river

Bhadra river is situated in the midst of western ghats, in the districts of Shimoga and Chickamagaluru in Karnataka. The reserve is surrounded by lofty hill range of Baba Budangiri, that includes peaks like Hebbagiri, Gaganagiri and Mullayyanagiri (6316ft above mean sea level, tallest in Karnataka). Bhadra dam is at Lakkavalli, is 40kms away from the proposed 'Live in Wild Resort'.

Main Flora: Reserve has identified 120 species. Important medicinal plants are in plenty. Sandal, Teak, Rose wood, Mathi, Honne, Nandi, Kindal etc are some of the other species.

Main Fauna: Tiger, leopard, elephant, Indian bison, sambar, barking deer, spotted deer, wild dog, wild bore, sloth bore etc.

Other must see places: Amruteshwara temple (40kms away), Ayyana kere (a vast lake, 70kms away) and Ratnagiri (a park in the forest, with climate known to refresh body and soul).

Blooming Time

From the title of the blog and its content in the introductory post, you'll guess that Mulligores will be straight forward in their opinions and will never be bogged down by obligations. But, before you go through their opinions on happenings across the globe in forthcoming posts of this blog, you better hear about their background, in their own words:

Mulligore Production: How it Started by Jonathan Couture aka Hellcutter 

I started playing guitar in 1990, when I was 10 years old. I had a lot of band afterward, and I have been able to play drum, bass and some other instruments over the years. But I never had the chance to publish any of my music.

In 2007, I decided to start my own one man band, since I had the efficiency to play and compose all the part by myself. At that time my band name was Fecal Bacteria, and it is the same even now.

My creation of music then was for fun and I just wanted to show what I am capable of. I owned a page (with a couples of my songs on it) entitled 'My Space' which was open to the addition of some other bands with music genre of my choice.

Around mid 2007, an individual contacted me on 'My Space', asking me if I would be interested to release a split CD (a music CD with two or more bands on it) with him, under his independent label, at no cost.

I accepted right away and sent him my songs, logo and stuff to put on the CD. Around a month later I received the CD, everything was home made, both side of the CD booklet was printed with an inkjet printer on some cheap paper then glued together to look thicker and the CD was an inked printed sticker manually placed on a regular CD-R that anybody could purchase in a computer store.

I looked at the entire packaging and said to myself, "This is so cool, I can do all this by myself". 

Thereafter I decided to start my own label, to publish my own music. I bought a lazer printer, some photo paper and a CD printing sticker kit from the store. Then it came to choose a name. At that time I was selling some trading card game under the business name 'Mulligame', which I still own. I kept thinking that I can keep the 'Mulli' part of that name and add the word 'gore' to represent the music genre I wanted to release under the label. 

Mulligore! That's it and since every label that I owned was having that word Recorded in it, I decided to float the label entitled 'Mulligore Records'.

I contacted some other bands within 'My Space' friend list, including the person who released the split CD. I released a couples of CDs and that was really fun! 

I wanted to expand a little more even if I was not making any money. I decided to make 'Mulligore Records' a real business and be able to get some money to help other bands releasing their CDs, but there was an issue when I tried to register the business name Mulligore Records. I received a letter saying that I need to change name, because where I live in Quebec, the population in this province speak around 80 percent French and there is a law protecting the French language. So anybody who want to start a business in Quebec need to have a French name or a fictional word that doesn't mean anything.

'Mulligore' for sure was not the issue, since it does not mean anything even in English "maybe some day". As such I only had to change the word 'Records'. I had to choose something that was telling what the business is, in both French and English, since most of my 'My Space' friends were international English speakers.

There is rarely any word in French that mean, written and pronounced the same way as in English, other than the word 'Production'. That exactly was the word I needed, relating it to the action of making or manufacturing components using raw materials, or to the process of products being so manufactured.

The question of belling the cat got resolved! Mulligore Production was born!!!