In his article The fallen Tomato Cart, Subroto Bagchi (co-founder & CEO of MindTree Consulting) has described the chaos at traffic signal beautifully.


There is a sense of disarray as motorists try to push past each other through the traffic light. The light here always tests their agility because if you miss the green, you have to wait for another three minutes before it lets you go past again. Those three minutes become eternity for an otherwise time-insensitive nation on the move. Today, there is a sense of chaos here. People are honking, skirting each other and rushing past. I look out of my window to seek the reason. It is not difficult to find because it is lying strewn all over the place.


Very True...

All the trees on Madiwala main road are also cut [;(]. MG Road is also detreed for "Namma Metro". Banglaore doesn't seem to be a green city anymore. The summer was terrible this time. Monsoon hasn't started yet. Many roads are not safe after midnight. Where are we heading [???]

There is no museum on Museum road, (museum is on Kasturba road), post office on Post Office road and now there is no airport on Airport road too.

How to find a Bus Stop in Bangalore.

1. Right Next to a busy Junction/Signal.
2. Right Next to a turn in a busy road.
3. Right Next to a narrow underpass.

Two days back I was searching for telephone number of any of the travel agency in Kannur to book my return ticket to Bangalore. Neither Google nor LiveSearch could give the result. So this post is to help the search engines [;)].

Golden Travels, Fort Road, Kannur
(+91) (497) 2701553, 271135

PVK Travels, Fort Road, Kannur
2707496

Petrol pumps frauds are quite common in Bangalore. See.
http://richiyaprapancha.blogspot.com/2007/07/being-bakra-at-petrol-bunk.html
Donno whether its a concidence. whenever I was cheated, or tried to be cheated, it was in an HP pump. May be becuase I am an HP employee.

Dipu had sent a complaint to HP once when he was "served better" at the HP petrol pump besides the Capitol Hotel in Raj Bhavan road. The incident went like this - after leaving the bunk he got an "ulvili" that they filled for Rs.50 less than what he had paid for. He went back to the pump and told it, without much hesitation they filled it for remaining 50 rupees. hmm... incredible...

Shell have a good reputation among the pumps for quality of service. But looks like they are also following the suite.
http://prabhukrish.net/2007/08/06/shell-shocked

B-TRAC 2010 - Drive to a SMART Future

B-TRAC 2010 - Drive to a SMART Future

No tamil movies releases, no tamil channels. This is the situation continues even after 6 weeks since the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal gave its awaited final award setting out the share of waters of the Cauvery among the riparian states.

Dr.RajKumar passed away this after noon. Rumors are spreading about violence in some parts of the city. People are panic as there were some sort of riot when Veerappan kidnapped him a few years back.

By this time ( April 12,2006 5:55 PM ) Wikipedia article about Rajkumar is updated(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajkumar). See what is written under the heading Death.

Death
He passed away on April 12, 2006(13.45 IST) following a cardiac arrest on Wednesday afternoon in M S Ramaiah hospital, Bangalore. The city virtually came to a halt as the news spread about the death. Shops, businesses were closed down. The news channels reported little incidents of riot.

Buses and autos. Two most unpredictable objects on Bangalore road. You don't know when they are going to take a turn. Some bus drivers are even capable of taking a 90 degree turn from a stopped position.

"Don't pollute air". To complete the one-liner most of the autos need one more sentence. "I am polluting more than enough".

An irony - most of the autos having the "Don't pollute air" sticker exhaust a as much black fumes as it can so that it no one else will dare to do so.

Bangalore is changing to Bengaluru. Many other cities in Karnataka are also undergoing this renaming cermony.

But why? To restore its original name? I read somewhere the original name of Bangalore was "Bendakaluru"