Saturday, March 18, 2006

My sweet old Bangalore

The once laid-back sleepy town has been encroached by technology, traffic and outsiders. The days are long gone when between 9am and 11am on Sunday, the roads would go empty, because Doordarshan was either airing "Ramayan" or "Mahabharat". Religion, caste, creed or language did not come in the way during this period, when everyone would watch these shows. This is what we call "UNITY IN DIVERSITY". I am told that during the airing of "Kaun Banega Karodhpati", the roads go empty. But I am sure it is not to the same extent as Ramayan/Mahabharat times of old.

I was explaining about DilKush and DilPasand to someone, that I had to search the web and found this great blog about Iyengar's Bakeries in Bangalore:
Fresh Puffs, DilKush and Little Nostalgia

What makes Bangalore special?
* DilKush/DilPasand or Congress?
* Ragi Muddhhe/Balls?
* Old times.
* Dr.Raj Annavru?
* Chinnaswamy Stadium?
* Avenue Road?
* Kalasipalya?
* Vidhana Soudha?
* Huttidhare Kannadanadal Huttabekku?
* Majestic?
* Chow-Chow Bath?
* Second/Third Helping of sambhar at xxx-Darshinis?

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3 comments:

Vidya Vaidyanathan said...

Hello Anil,
I had a brush of old bangalore a few weeks ago. It was a sunday evening (five-ish) and the whole route from malleswaram to lalbahadur shastry nagar (via commissoner's office, cubbon road and airport road) was relatively empty. And I did my journey in 35 minutes. After a long time, it felt like they were airing a Rajkumar-awara movie.
How i wished for reversal of time "sigh"
Regards,
Vidya

Vidya Vaidyanathan said...

Hello Anil,
I had a brush of old bangalore a few weeks ago. It was a sunday evening (five-ish) and the whole route from malleswaram to lalbahadur shastry nagar (via commissoner's office, cubbon road and airport road) was relatively empty. And I did my journey in 35 minutes. After a long time, it felt like they were airing a Rajkumar-awara movie.
How i wished for reversal of time "sigh"
Regards,
Vidya

Anil Saldanha said...

Sometimes I wish the software companies like Wipro, do as they threaten - "we will leave if you do not improve the infrastructure". This way atleast the cities will be less congested.

Rather than cities like Hyd, Bangalore and Thiruvanthapuram etc compete to become the IT centers, they should collaborate as "Sister Cities", such that India collectively improves rather than congesting one or two cities AND leave the other regions of the country as suburbia.