From Delhi to Bangalore
A little more than forty eight hours or three and a half hours flat thats how much time it takes to shift your point of view and adjust to the change depending on your moolah.
That was almost two years back and based on all the raves I was looking forward to it, but on the first glance its just like any other metropolitan with all the hustle bustle and fanfare but on a closer look the difference was evident.
Peeking under its thick exterior you find a city still holding on to its simple life style, easy going people homes with coconut trees criss crossing walls as if sharing in their laughs and sorrows. A junta more inclined to spending time in libraries, theatres and other self pursuits which is sure a sea change from where I come from a city where libraries are gaged up with college grads, theatres with high society people who have nothing else to spend their evenings with and a lifestyle so fast that you only get time in a public transport to wonder where your life is heading (that too if you are not jam packed in a bus of sixty where only fifty can fit). Plus delhi has nothing to quench your senses on the lighter side, I mean you slog around eight hours before you see a perched kingfisher, here travel two hours in any direction and it seems you left the city almost far behind.
Though only few know bangalore is called a tippler's paradise and once you perambulate the alleys you know why, there seems to be a liqour shop as common as a tea stall in delhi handing you your stuff by the glasses!
Plus how can I forget the biggest plus point of all the climate, with a crunchy summer and a soothing winter; delhites find it almost a bliss but then the moment they step on the road they are reminded of what seems amiss, which ofcourse are the pathetic roads, never meant to bear the exodus of immigrants like us; which I guess bangalore has half of them.
So who is looking for a change!!!
That was almost two years back and based on all the raves I was looking forward to it, but on the first glance its just like any other metropolitan with all the hustle bustle and fanfare but on a closer look the difference was evident.
Peeking under its thick exterior you find a city still holding on to its simple life style, easy going people homes with coconut trees criss crossing walls as if sharing in their laughs and sorrows. A junta more inclined to spending time in libraries, theatres and other self pursuits which is sure a sea change from where I come from a city where libraries are gaged up with college grads, theatres with high society people who have nothing else to spend their evenings with and a lifestyle so fast that you only get time in a public transport to wonder where your life is heading (that too if you are not jam packed in a bus of sixty where only fifty can fit). Plus delhi has nothing to quench your senses on the lighter side, I mean you slog around eight hours before you see a perched kingfisher, here travel two hours in any direction and it seems you left the city almost far behind.
Though only few know bangalore is called a tippler's paradise and once you perambulate the alleys you know why, there seems to be a liqour shop as common as a tea stall in delhi handing you your stuff by the glasses!
Plus how can I forget the biggest plus point of all the climate, with a crunchy summer and a soothing winter; delhites find it almost a bliss but then the moment they step on the road they are reminded of what seems amiss, which ofcourse are the pathetic roads, never meant to bear the exodus of immigrants like us; which I guess bangalore has half of them.
So who is looking for a change!!!
posted by Rebus at 5/26/2006 08:59:00 AM
2 Comments:
I dont abt bangalore but yes delhi has extreme weather condition, when its hot then too hot & when its cold its too cold
Nice idea with this site its better than most of the rubbish I come across.
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