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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 ...

Some weeks back, my wife went out of the town for a project release for a couple of days and I had to deal with a bachelor's life for two long (OK, may be not that long) days. I did not get much time to stay at home as I had to finish the pre-joining procedures for my new job. In those two days, I managed to get clicked a horrifying image of mine (again) for the employee id card, had pizza for lunch, had a back breaking 1400 kilometres journey in two days. Well, there was no one to monitor me for two days and did I get in to trouble? Yes, I managed to get in to a bit of it. I was on the way to board my bus to Kerala (the first 700 kms of 1400) and it was too early to reach the boarding point, considering the fact that most of the buses operating in this route start at least 45 minutes late. I thought of catching up with my friend and got down near the forum mall and gave him a call. The unexpected happened then, I was on the footpath, which also serves as a park...