Intelligentle

Life has completed another small circle after I ventured out of my state five years back for an MBA . It started from Pune, where I came across various permutations and combinations of human beings and that of tasty food. Then, like one of my old acquaintances (who was obsessed with alternate phrases and hashtags) might put it across, I had to shift my coordinates to N20.0014° N, 73.7869° E or Nashik as we call it. In between the shuttling between Nashik, Bangalore and Kerala , Bangalore became a second home. This followed by the wedlock and I shifted to Bangalore for my bread and (peanut) butter. Then one fine day, I was fed up of having peanut butter and looked out for a better meal. On a totally unrelated note, I ended up in a new job in Bangalore and my new team sits in Pune. Now I travel to Pune once in a while, completing another little circle drawn with my MBA as the centre. Though I do not get much time to explore the city, I enjoy these trips, because the...

Bangalore is a nice and beautiful city. Nice in terms of climate, facilities available, helpful people etc. But sadly Bangalore is nicer if you stay indoor most of the time. A huge percentage of the 'helpful people' I mentioned earlier, turn out to be the ultimate propagators of road rage when they drive or ride. They never stop, unless there is a train in their way (I doubt that too!), they drive at the maximum (im)possible speed, almost everywhere and above all they are totally ignorant about the fact that road is a public space. The below tips are derived from fellow drivers/riders on Bangalore roads and in no way I can relate to any of these. So, these tips are better implemented if you are all alone in a city and only if so. Road rage is the norm here.. Image courtesy: nareshtrao's photostream on Flickr Well, let us start from two-wheelers If you have a bike, no matter the lack of space, you should try and poke it through the last millimetre available. Rear ...

I am starting a series about certain things I come across in Bangalore. Things which I think others should know and might help them in some way or other. This series might not be regular, you may expect random posts in between, however all related posts will be named as 'The city diaries'. These posts are supposed to be informative, hoping to add a tint of positivity. I have been a resident of Bangalore for the last 8 months only and one of the first things we possessed here was a bike. Since then I've been riding an average of 40 kilometres everyday, mostly to work. Riding is an exhausting task in Bangalore traffic, unless you do not care about traffic rules and fellow riders, like a good percentage of bike/scooter riders here. And when you think that you figured your way out around riding in Bangalore, another problem hits you; fuel. Fuel prices are growing faster than an average Indian's dream of daily survival, but that's a national phenomena (yes, the...