Exhibitions and Brigade

The Brigade Property Show was held in Chennai, on 8 and 9 November, at Regal Hall, Residency Towers. Our area of focus was residential projects, mainly our two enclaves, Brigade Millennium and Brigade Gardenia.

The Reality exhibition, organised by KOAPA (Karnataka Ownership Apartment Promoters Association) was held on 27 and 28 September at Palace Grounds, soon after the Grand Gardenia Gala. Brigade Group’s stall—bright, cheerful and elegant—drew an excellent response.

Tandem’s one-stop customer service
centre at Brigade Plaza

Tandem Allied Services, an associate of Brigade Group, inaugurated their office at Brigade Plaza on 10 November. Tandem allows us to become a one-stop property management services provider. Services offered include engineering, housekeeping, security and landscaping. They also take care of residential and commercial property needs. Tandem’s Home Loan Division has tied up with ICICI Bank for home loans, personal loans and car loans; with New India Assurance for general insurance and with MetLife India Insurance for life insurance.

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We thank you for enclosing your latest newsletter, Brigade Insight. It made excellent reading. The newsletter is well-presented with good fonts and colour contrasts, highlighting your new corporate signature, in line with elite, contemporary publications. It is very thoughtful of you to have included columns on the housing loans schemes, on property registration and on heritage buildings.

—S. Raghu Ram & Dr Shyla Raghu Ram,
(Clients of Golden Magic Block,
Brigade Gardenia)

An unforgettable day Brigade’s annual picnic


Our 17th anniversary, on 10 October, was celebrated with a day of fun and laughter at Club Cabana. With almost the entire Brigade team at the annual picnic, the day was filled with indoor games, Antakshari and plenty of other interesting and enjoyable events.

Jaishankar speaks at BAI function

Mr M.R. Jaishankar gave a talk on the training of engineers and artisans at the Bhoomi Pooja of an artisan’s training centre. The Pooja was performed by the Builder’s Association of India (BAI) on 19 October. Held at the National Games Village, Koramangala, the function was presided over by Mr K.L. Mohan Rao, Chairman, Karnataka Centre, BAI. Mr K. Jaisim, architect, Jaisim-Fountainhead was the chief guest. The Training Centre is part of BAI’s initiative to celebrate ‘Builder’s Day’. The centre will have both 6-month and 2-year courses.

Residents’ point of view:
Brigade Hillview matches
international standards


Mrs and Mr Rangaswamy, Retd Chief General Manager, State Bank of India, have virtually become ambassadors of the Brigade Group; their recommendations have resulted in several purchases of Brigade properties. They have booked an apartment in Brigade Millennium and are eagerly looking forward to living there next year. This is what they had to say:

“ When we moved back to India from Kuwait, we were keen to maintain the same kind of lifestyle we enjoyed there and found Brigade Hillview matched international standards. The community life in Komarla Brigade Residency impressed us and we are delighted that Brigade Millennium will carry this on. We are sure it will be Brigade’s best project!”

Behind the scenes:
The making of our new calendar


Art has always been the theme of Brigade Group calendars. To date, our calendars have featured paintings, sculptures, murals, and nature, landscape and architectural photography. This year we continue the tradition with yet another form of art: wildlife photography. And our subject is birds—specifically those found in and around Bangalore.

There are a large number of birds to be found in Bangalore. Fortunately, there are also some talented, patient and knowledgeable people who photograph them.

To help us zero in on twelve birds for our calendar (thirteen, if you count the flyleaf), the creators of our calendar, Simova-Resource, sought assistance from an expert in the field: Mr T.N.A. Perumal, an experienced naturalist and an outstanding photographer. He has been awarded the highest honours from some of the world's top photographic bodies and his work has been showcased in salons and publications in India and abroad.

Mr Perumal compiled a collection of over 100 photographs, from the fraternity of wildlife photographers. Over the course of several weeks, these photographs were reviewed by Mr Perumal, Brigade Group and Simova-Resource. The final shortlist was made based on both the excellence of the photograph and the significance of the bird. The thirteen photographs that were finally selected come from the portfolios of four leading wildlife photographers of Karnataka.

To make the calendar more meaningful, the reverse-side of each datepad contains a brief description of the bird. Mr Perumal helped compile this information, and an excellent book, The Book of Indian Birds, by Dr Salim Ali, provided any further information that was required. To discover the Kannada names of the birds, we turned to Mr Poornachandra Tejaswi’s book, Hakki Pukka.

We hope you enjoy our calendar as much as we enjoyed creating it!