As per website of Bangalore Traffic Police there are around 336 junctions across Bangalore City. I am assuming among these atleast 200 would have signal. Let’s also assume that each of these works only between 9 AM in the morning until 9PM in the night which is 12 hours in a day. Now in order to make calculations easier, the signals are set for 120 seconds and each of these signals are four ways. On an average during these 120…
On 8th of Feb 2017, I got down at the Bangalore International Airport (KIAL) and booked a Cab with Uber. It was late at night and by the time I collected all may bags and confirmed the ride it was already beyond 11:30 PM. There were few changes at the airport due to construction of Rapid Exit Taxiways from Feb 19th to April 30th. App based pickup locations had changed and looks like there isn’t any parking left for them…
It was night on 8th of November and as usual I had switched to DD NEWS to get my daily dose of news. For couple of years I have stopped watching any other NEWS channel due high intensity noise that raises anxiety levels in me. DD NEWS has its own problem being forced to highlight government moves as well air NEWS related to Information & Broadcasting Minister who these days is Venkaiah Naidu, even when related NEWS are not of…
The real estate prices are bound to go down if the black money is sucked out of the system which may be good news for all the people looking to buy their dream house. Imagine a situation that people don’t have black money to buy flats after flats and with excess capacity already in the real estate, it may be the best time to get your hands dirty and keep your research going on. There may not be a better time…
Recently I visited Wagah Border which is most famous point on the border between India and Pakistan and there is definitely a scope of making things much better than how it is being handled currently. This is my experience and probable things that can be planned in order to make it a pleasant experience for everyone. According to the limited historical reference this Beating Retreat Ceremony at the Wagah boarder started in 1959 and is conducted every day by the Border Security…
I still remember the struggle of getting my first passport. I had applied seeing few of my friends in the final year of college and time it took I had already passed out and was not there to collect it. Eventually my dad tried with some of his friends as one had to go to Guwahati in order to collect. Somehow that didn’t work out and Guwahati Passport office suggested that the passport can be sent over to Bangalore, where…
In the year of 2010 I followed footsteps of one of colleague and took a National Savings Certificate popularly known as NSC and it is one the tax saving instruments and as far as I know it is sold by the Post Offices all over India. According the official website of Postal Department and here is copy of that ” India has the largest Postal Network in the world with over 1, 54,882 Post Offices (as on 31.03.2014) of which…
” The sort of things that are working against him (journalists) are the concentration of the press in the hands of a few rich men, the grip of monopoly on radio and the films…….” Any guesses as to when these lines were written. This was written in 1946 by George Orwell in his essay “The Prevention of literature” and he was meaning this for his country Britain. And here we are in 21st Century and totally different country India and these…
Typical weekday traffic during the peak hours 8-11 in morning and 5-8 in the evening in Bangalore is normally bumper to bumper and if you are driving a four wheeler you may not need to change gears and stick to the first one itself. I take outer ring road which has become congested even after so many flyovers constructed in last four-five years but probably due to burgeoning IT companies on this road as well a many apartment complexes the…
The Rime of the Modern Biker (Biker here is the cyclist not any fancy Harley or the Bullet which is made like a gun). I know that The Rime of The Ancient Mariner is the longest lyrical ballad written by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge which is actually a masterpiece. I am no poet to even try my hands at that so I stick to normal prose and ask people to please be tolerant 🙂 Let me be very frank…
The geographical proximity of India and China have led to conditions that many times we see with our neighbors. There are very few neighbors who remain to be very close and friendly in normal day to day life. Indo-China relations have never been very amicable and the future isn’t going to be that rosy as well with the world looking at these two countries which hold one third of the world’s population as the so called “bright spots” in the…
Recently my weekend morning started a little differently. As usual I wanted to check my phone (I know its a bad habit but yeah many times I do check my Whatsapp messages, mails and other stuffs like that) and for some reason it just switched off and then never started. I had bought phone couple of years back for hefty sum of 37000 that too in three monthly installments. It was a Samsung Note II and as the Samsung software…
Bonjour Mesdames et Messieurs Je suis apprendre le français pendant deux ans avec Duolingo. Il est disponible en Android Store, Apple Store ou un ordinateur. Il est une application très bonne sans annonce. Je suis un étudiant de français dans mon collège. Le cours était seulement 30 heures de long, ne pas apprendre beaucoup. Après le cours Je suis l’habitude de faire une classe les jours sur Duolingo. Il faut 20 minutes pour terminer un chapitre et il devient très addictif ainsi. Je l’ai…
My mom tells me that when I was two months old, they took me to place called “Ziro” in Arunachal Pradesh and that is probably why I became a “hill person” or as we say in Hindi parlance a “Pahari”. I still stand by that as hills and mountains is where I feel homely and get the feeling of belongingness. Here is a snapshot of the years that has been so wonderful that I always want to go back. I have…
It was a beautiful Saturday morning and I just came back from cycling.On reaching home little tired I was asked to get some milk and quite reluctantly I left for the Nandini shop just round the corner. As the luck would have it my purse slipped out of the pocket and unfortunately I never realized. So that is how I lost everything in my purse from DL, Credit & Debit Cards,PAN and some cash. That day milk costed me more…