Bangalore II

Visited the two popular roads of Bangalore, the Brigade and MG road, (my office is only 2-3 kms away from them). Lot of glitter,crowd, neon lights etc. MG road has an airy Barista having a nice ambience. Also watched the movie “Be Cool” in a theater in MG.
Travelled quite a lot, went to Electronic City in Hosur, all the IT bigwigs have a pretty impressive infrastructure out there. Journey one-way took almost an hour from the Race Course road due to the congested roads. The traffic in the city is quite overwhelming, during the rush hour it crawls, and it is quite frustrating having to wait for long durations at the traffic signals. Only saving grace is that the temperature is moderate and generally a pleasant breeze blows, which soothes the nerves a bit, otherwise an oppressive climate like Chennai or Calcutta can exacerbate the situation. As in the case of Pune most of the older residents (anyone with more than 4 years in Bangalore) lament about the current state of affairs and long for the good old days. As far as I am concerned I sympathize with them, but generally such cribbing and despondency with the state of affairs doesn’t serve any purpose. We can just hope that the situation will improve, atleast someone in authority will take stock, it is a complex thing and out of our control. We can just live on and look at the brighter side of things. Sounds quite trite but guess this is the way I tend to look at these things. No point taking the burden of the whole world on you.