Chintamani-Not just a name!!

Although our town is named after a Maratha king Chintamani Rao(son of Ambaji Rao), Chintamani is also a name of a stone that is believed to have mystic power. CC presents you some interesting write up on this mysterious stone called Chintamani.                  

 It is believed that the great sailer Marco Polo travelled miles in search of the Chintamani Stone.

Chintamani is a legendary mystic stone from the epics of Mahabharata. Here is an interesting story about the Chintamani stone.
A huge Chintamani Stone was found in China. Here is the link

Chintamani is also a  legendary story of a Sanskrit poet and devotee of Lord Krishna named Bilwamangal. Bilwamangal, a resident of Varanasi, was a Sanskrit scholar, who gets infatuated towards a courtesan called Chintamani. As a result he deserts his wife. However, Chintamani is an ardent devotee of Lord Krishna  and spends most of her time singing bhajans in praise of Lord Krishna. His attraction towards Chintamani eventually draws Bilwamangal closer towards Lord Krishna and transforms his life forever. Bilwangal, himself, becomes a devotee of Lord Krishna and pens a monumental Sanskrit work Sri Krishna Karnamritam. A Telugu movie starred by iconic actor  of yester years NTR was made in the year 1956 titled "Chintamani" click here based on the same story.

Here is one more story from the epics in which Lord Ganesha turns into a Chintamani Stone with mysic power.

Ganesha becomes Chintamani

There is a Karnatic Raaga with the name 'Chintamani' which is rarely sung by the musicians these days. Listen to this Shyama Shastry's Kriti in Chintamani Raaga sung by legendary singer M.S.Subbalakshmi.

Chintamani a BBMP dumping ground???

Just when Chintamani is seeing lot of progress in terms of infrastructure, just when the roads leading to Chintamani is seeing a tremendous change, just when the municipality of Chintamani is spreading the green patches in and around the town, this piece of news has sent a shock waves among Chintamaniacs. The BBMP's plans to dump the garbage in Chintamani taluk clearly shows there is an ulterior motive behind this idea. The BBMP garbage vehicles wants to use the newly built roads as an express-highway to their dumping grounds in Chintamani taluk. BBMP has failed to manage the garbage generated by the city and taking hasty decisions to wash their hands off.

We lodge our protest!!

Article in Deccan Herald

Nelamangala, Chintamani may be next dump yards

BANGALORE, August 25, 2012, DHNS
 Under fire for letting garbage swamp the City, the State government on Saturday swung into action to assist the BBMP to find a way out to clear the mess and identified alternate landfill sites at Nelamangala, Chintamani and some abandoned quarries as dump yards.

On a day when the garbage clearing was more visible across the City, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar convened a review meeting at which he directed Palike Commissioner Shankaralinge Gowda to clear the piled-up garbage within 24 hours.
Besides the commissioner, Mayor D Venkatesh Murthy, A Ravindra, former bureaucrat and advisor to chief minister on urban affairs, corporators, City MLAs and BBMP officials were present.
Although trucks were seen transporting garbage from the City, the problem is likely to be sorted out only by Monday.
Many truckloads were diverted to the Mandur landfill, even as the Mavallipura landfill remained closed. On the ban imposed by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) at this landfill, ecology and Environment Minister Sogadu Shivanna said the Board should have looked for alternatives like segregating garbage and utilising garbage for power production, before disallowing dumping of garbage in the designated dump yards.
Shettar later told mediapersons that he had asked the commissioner to initiate all possible measures to bail out the City from the mess. He also instructed the commissioner to initiate action against Ramky Enviro Engineers for violating contractual provisions, that resulted in garbage being strewn all over the City.
The Chief Minister said the government would speed up processing of files pertaining to possible locations for garbage disposal. A special meeting will be convened next week to accelerate the process of denotifying land for solid waste management.

The Link http://www.deccanherald.com/content/274288/nelamangala-chintamani-may-next-dump.html