Rains - Floods and Bangalore .

going to office everyday from Malleswaram is awful enough.
to top that ... imagine having to wade through the traffic and water
Why ? just .. yesterday .. our office bus had to go places .. before we could
reach the other end of Hosur Road near Madiwala. ... (an hour's journey
for what could have actually taken abt 10 minutes)
Ofcourse the journey had its plus points... it gave us a really clear picture of rural
Bangalore like nothing else could have done... looking at those places ..
it is hard to imagine that we are so near "Silicon Valley of Asia"
funny things do happen ... and though we started early ... (5pm) taking
into consideration .. the traffic and all ... first half-an-hour was spent in
trying to get the exact route by which we can reach Madiwala totally
avoiding Hosur Main Road ... we went this way.. reached a dead end ...
and we went another way .. stopped ... clueless looking at the slush thro'
which we might have to swim ... we jogged along .. this way that way ..
and finally hit upon a route.. (which by the way had lot of traffic .. BTM buses
to bullock carts ... ). Even with Radio city going on in full swing inside the bus..
it was not difficult to catch the beautiful Kannada swear words of some of
the villagers there .. ;-) ...
In the morning .. on way back .. as if the existing traffic was not enough ...
I saw NDTV and AAjTAk vans swarming the exact point where the traffic
is at its peak (silkboard junction near Hosur flyover..) I got a strong urge to
go out and start .. a whats-the-big-ideaing at them .. (or much better .. kick them .. )
but controlled myself with lot of effort.
Whatever the reasons .. people might give for the stagnant water .. from ..
Deve Gowda to Bommanahalli villagers... this week will be remembered by me
for a long long time as the week in which i had to travel three hours to reach home
from office...
with