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Thats Bangalore for you.
Sorry, I know this photograph is as sad as they come, but I couldn't resist comparing it to the confused city. No offense to any Bangalorians (Bengalurooians now. Wonder what prompted the bigwigs there to rename Bangalore to Bengaluroo. Its not remotely 'cool').
So bringing on the comparisons ...
One thing I love about Bombay is that you can travel from the southern tip of Bombay to the Northern tip of Bombay in about 45 minutes, and distances between places lying between these two tips take lesser time to cover. Kinda obvious isn't it? But when you go to Bangalore, EVERY distance takes atleast half an hour to cover. Never less. Mostly more.
To cover this distances, there are two options: Autorickshaws or Buses.
Autorickshaws are tiny three wheelers (Tuk-Tuk in foreign lands) which are more like walking-talking highway robbers. They have meters to tell the fare, but these devices are rarely used. The auto riders think that their vehicles are superbikes, and move them as fast as they possible can, along whatever contours that lie ahead. And in the end, your wallet is invariably emptied due to the large distances from any point in Bengaluroo to any other point in Bengaluroo.
Then come the buses. Thank god they're cheap. But obviously, there's gotta be a catch. Any guesses? Yeah...the bus drivers will not pay for an injuries sustained during the ride. And my, are the rides crazy! If the auto guy thinks his vehicle is a superbike, the bus driver thinks his vehicle is a Formula One car. They ride the roads like there's no one in front of them (which is NEVER true) and zoom at speeds never before imagined. I mean, the guys who made those buses would've never dreamed of those machines attaining such high velocities.
The roads in the city are certainly not made to handle such high volumes of traffic, with buses zooming through cars, autos, bikes and bicycles. Yes my dears, imagine that! (any sane person would imagine a bike zooming through cars and buses, but no! This is the city of the future, Bengaluroo!)
And then, the other major problem with the city: Software Engineers, or some other engineer who's working as a software engineer. This place is infested with them. They're as abundant as rats in a drain, as grins on Steve McLaren's face, as diodes on Marvin's left side (this one ofcourse is dedicated to Douglas Adams), as journalists in Afghanistan... blah blah.. the stray dogs are getting an inferiority complex there!
Thats all for now. I need to run before one of those geeks bumps me off with a super virus that destroys my computer and turns my photos into pieces of whale meat.
Technological Overdose
View Large
Thats Bangalore for you.
Sorry, I know this photograph is as sad as they come, but I couldn't resist comparing it to the confused city. No offense to any Bangalorians (Bengalurooians now. Wonder what prompted the bigwigs there to rename Bangalore to Bengaluroo. Its not remotely 'cool').
So bringing on the comparisons ...
One thing I love about Bombay is that you can travel from the southern tip of Bombay to the Northern tip of Bombay in about 45 minutes, and distances between places lying between these two tips take lesser time to cover. Kinda obvious isn't it? But when you go to Bangalore, EVERY distance takes atleast half an hour to cover. Never less. Mostly more.
To cover this distances, there are two options: Autorickshaws or Buses.
Autorickshaws are tiny three wheelers (Tuk-Tuk in foreign lands) which are more like walking-talking highway robbers. They have meters to tell the fare, but these devices are rarely used. The auto riders think that their vehicles are superbikes, and move them as fast as they possible can, along whatever contours that lie ahead. And in the end, your wallet is invariably emptied due to the large distances from any point in Bengaluroo to any other point in Bengaluroo.
Then come the buses. Thank god they're cheap. But obviously, there's gotta be a catch. Any guesses? Yeah...the bus drivers will not pay for an injuries sustained during the ride. And my, are the rides crazy! If the auto guy thinks his vehicle is a superbike, the bus driver thinks his vehicle is a Formula One car. They ride the roads like there's no one in front of them (which is NEVER true) and zoom at speeds never before imagined. I mean, the guys who made those buses would've never dreamed of those machines attaining such high velocities.
The roads in the city are certainly not made to handle such high volumes of traffic, with buses zooming through cars, autos, bikes and bicycles. Yes my dears, imagine that! (any sane person would imagine a bike zooming through cars and buses, but no! This is the city of the future, Bengaluroo!)
And then, the other major problem with the city: Software Engineers, or some other engineer who's working as a software engineer. This place is infested with them. They're as abundant as rats in a drain, as grins on Steve McLaren's face, as diodes on Marvin's left side (this one ofcourse is dedicated to Douglas Adams), as journalists in Afghanistan... blah blah.. the stray dogs are getting an inferiority complex there!
Thats all for now. I need to run before one of those geeks bumps me off with a super virus that destroys my computer and turns my photos into pieces of whale meat.