Bengaloorued

I am back in the Silicon Valley of India after a gap of more than two years for my summer internship @Wipro. Though I have been to all the major IT hubs of India but still Bangalore leads the pack by a long way. This isn't my 1st visit to the Silicon Valley of India, though all the previous trips were on weekends so I hadn't seen the hustle-bustle of the office goers.

I am staying at IIM Bangalore for the 1st one month. And somehow I can't stop comparing the campus with heaven. Though I haven't visited the latter, but still I believe it can't be much better than this campus. The weather, the lush green trees, the aesthetic architecture, decently luxurious hostels and the high speed internet connection in the room (an important criteria once you experience the net at IIT D) make the place an unbelievable. Very few areas within the city can give you the luxury of enjoying the chirping of birds because just as you step outside the campus you feel as if you have steeped into a warzone. Its soo peaceful ,quiet and clean along with with all the facilities. It gives the feeling of 'real' b-school life which was somewhat missing from my life in the last one year.

But the same utopian experience doesn't hold true for the city in general. A 4 km distance between my residence and office takes me anywhere between 40 to 60 minutes. The roads are jammed any time of the day and if it starts to rain, that 4km distance will appear longer than the distance to moon because no matter what you do, the traffic won't move an inch. Its a curse to own a sedan in this city. Its difficult to imagine what will be the condition of this once beautiful city in the years to come. More so because there are hardly any steps being taken. I wish the least the Govt can do is to write the source-destination on the buses in English. That will help people like me to sometimes avoid an auto and take a bus. Imagine the plight of a person who can't afford auto everytime and doesn't know Kannada. This fanaticism for the local language will give even the French a run for their money.