Alembic Group as I mentioned is quite well established and their leadership possess rich experience.  They have developed nearly 10 million sq. ft. of land and more than 2 million sq. ft. of build-up space in Gujarat and Karnataka.  These are quite astounding numbers.  To add to this, since a decade they have been developing Integrated Residential Townships, Schools, Industrial Plants, Commercial offices and hospitals.  The group is in the minds of the people.

Bangalore has become one of the hottest Cosmopolitan Cities with multiple new companies, investments, start-ups, eateries coming up.  This has been made possible due to a lot of people immigrating from various states and making Bangalore their home.  The biggest concern in minds of Bangaloreans is that loss of green-cover due to felling of trees.  There are a few places where the greenery has been preserved like – Lalbagh, Cubbon Park and few others.  Alembic has made a conscious effort to let people enjoy nature and not just stick.

To be able to promote the idea of living in a greenery, it would not suffice by just having gardens.  They brought in the idea of having a Forest which would truly signify greenery.  Alembic Group wanted to create an event at the site to promote and let people enjoy the forest like atmosphere.

This is the first event where many folks were involved in is tree/plantation.  There was an expert in the group who told people on how to prepare pot before planting it.  Typically, ingredients used includes the red mud, manure, cut pieces of pots for keeping water poured at check and finally the method of plan it.  He also showed us about the various plants that were planted in past few months.

The location had green-cover across and empty ground in between.  There were couple of enthusiastic people who tried their hand.

There are many lost Indian games that were played indoor (Kavade, Chowka Bara, Ali Guli Mane, Pagade) and outdoor (Kunte Bille).  They had set up a section for people to play some of the games while being in the amidst nature.

These are 2 events setups especially for kids to enjoy.  The Zip liner is a sport where in kids are held by harness and we move across from one tree to another.  Quite exciting and fun.

Tree Walk was also interesting where in kids would walk on a Rope Bridge between 1 tree to another.  It needs some amount of balance because the walk could be quite shaky.

The food for the event was from a group that encourages healthy eating.  There were many items that were available for guests to relish.

This is one of the unique bands that promote cleaning the environment through music. The main vision of project ‘Thaalavattam’ (A percussion based project) is to create music using innovative instruments made from waste plastic and metal (reduce, reuse and recycle). They aim at cleaning up the plastic waste.  The group conducts rhythm rush (A drum circle event) through which they encourage people to recycle and reuse waste materials.

All the activities mentioned above were setup by Gathr, a group based in Bangalore.  They boast of being able to teleport to a world of Silent Parties, Mish-Mashed Chamber Concerts, Conversation Salons, Story Hunts, Making & Baking Sessions, Unexpected Hackathons and many more things.  It has been setup 8 months back by set of enthusiastic people trying to bring back fun into people life by doing something unique.

It was a great time spend from noon until early part of evening at a venue that was little known to me.  And now, I feel that it is a place which I should visit more often because it has the calm surrounding of nature.  Ideally, buying a property here would mean that forever you will be blessed with good view, clean air and peaceful surrounding.