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\"bangaloreThe cheapest bug-free accommodation in Bangalore is to be found in Christian Hostels, of which there are several in the city, this one being near Cantonment Station.<\/p>\n

Every morning we eat bananas and tapioca in a dark wood panelled hall \u2013 a Dickensian sparseness punctuated by an expressionist bronze crucifix, whose tortured form owes something to the German Renaissance \u2013 and to Gr\u00fcnewald in particular. After washing our bowls we wobble helmetless on a scooter though the Bangalore traffic to the Festival office in Wilson Garden. Each day on this journey, we pass a white cotton banner draped across a driveway which announces in large blue capital letters, \u201cThe Bangalore Cake Society 36th Annual Competition and Sale\u201d.<\/p>\n

I am keen to see this,\u00a0but festival director Jayachandran has other\u00a0things on his mind. He is already fully absorbed\u00a0in his new vision for movement arts in India\u00a0\u2013 he dreams of a fusion of traditional styles\u00a0such as Kalari, Kathakali and Bharatanatyam with\u00a0western contemporary and contact improvisation. He is interested in how movement systems culturally condition the human body. He is not really interested in cake, which is probably more indescriminate in its effects on the human frame.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On the last day, which is a Sunday, I tell him we have to see it or it will be gone forever and he stops the bike. Obviously a popular event, there are a number of tellers selling tickets through the outside wall of a brand new and very shiny corrugated zinc barn. Round the corner there is a corridor carpeted with red coir matting leading to the main event.<\/p>\n

I was beginning to wonder\u00a0what kind of a cake show\u00a0needs to prepare itself\u00a0for such large numbers.\u00a0It is a warm, sunny morning\u00a0and there are not that\u00a0many people about, but\u00a0the security arrangements\u00a0suggest the possibility\u00a0of civil unrest. There\u00a0are five or six cake exhibits\u00a0in the main hall in large,\u00a0bendy acrylic and aluminium\u00a0vitrines, one of which\u00a0is a recreation of Jurassic\u00a0Park in marzipan and another\u00a0a kind of Alpine scene\u00a0with goatherds. Alpines\u00a0scenes are generally popular\u00a0in South India but this\u00a0one, which has to be Heidi – must represent one of very few Swiss cultural exports to Bangalore.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At the end of the barn is the main event; a four metre high model of the World Trade Center spectacularly recreated in icing sugar.The Twin Towers dwarf the two living, human, armed guards who stroll rather indolently around them. It\u2019s only a few months since the WTC had come down and this is perhaps the reason the exhibit has been roped off and its plaza patrolled by militia.<\/p>\n

In the world of PR, the successful linking of patisserie and terrorism must be considered the work of a genius. Someone at the Bangalore Cake Society has fully grasped just how much the presence of soldiers with firearms and live ammunition can extend the dramatic reach of a large cake.<\/p>\n

A placard leans against a post holding up the museum style ropes which explains in four languages that, in a roundabout way, the exhibit is the Bangalore Cake Societies\u2019 contribution to world peace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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