bangalore city................is it?

most of my life have been spent in two cities, kolkata and mumbai...one being too slow another faster than necessary.so when my company decided to shift me to Bangalore i was a little ecstatic.heard so much about this city....the entire city is like a garden.the only season it has is spring.this city has a natural air conditioning.people are humble and sweet.the crowed is cool......its a young city full of youngsters and a whole lot of place to hang around.
i landed in Bangalore on 28Th of February2008 around 4:30 pm in the evening.after i finished my work at the office i headed towards my hotel around 8:30 in the evening.surprisingly the roads were quiet and dark, with few cars moving here and there.shocking for a city who is an aspiring metro!..and where are the gardens..?
next day i had to go to work around 10 in the morning.my air conditioned room did not tell me the exact temperature outside.thinking of its natural air conditioning i wore a business suite only to feel claustrophobic later.the sun was pinching my skin and hammering my head, drinking the last drop of water out of my body.i would not say that my complexion was that of a snow white but now its not even of a black panther.
during my stay in the hotel i started looking for my accommodation.its not that difficult to find a place in a city like Bangalore where mostly all the household run with the money earned from paying guests.sometimes entire buildings are made in a structure of a ''p.g''.
as i mentioned before i come from a city called kolkata where the term deposit stands for one month's house rent in advance.in this starlet city it stands for 11 months....so if i take a 2 bhk apartment worth 15 grands i would have to shell out 1.65 lakhs just to rent a place.woohhh.......people are rich here.
talking about rich people.....are citizens of this place really rich or its just a show off.one and a half year of my life wasting here and i still couldn't make out.
things are exorbitantly expensive.and people are bearing that kind of expense sometimes with choice and sometimes out compulsions.if u don't have your vehicle and would like to travel in auto rickshaws be ready to burn your pocket.here meter starts with rs 14 which is like a wow... but the drivers would never go on meter.....''madam wahanse wapas khali aana parta hai''........maine tere auto ka theke leke rakha hai...!and to top that they have the audacity to refuse to go depending on their whims and fancies.some of them are lazy and some don't even have have the general decency to talk to a lady.there is no one to complain about them........they simply don't fear law.
speaking of law,in a city called Bangalore u would hardly find any traffic police on roads.the only time they are prominently visible is during weekends post 2300 hrs.that's the peak time to squeeze in money from suspecting drunkards.they will also be seen on the highways catching speeding vehicles and asking for bribe.the bribe money varies from vehicle to vehicle.if Ur riding a scooty its 100rs,for bikes its 150rs and for cars it starts from 500rs.this number grows along with the size of the car.
people..what do i say about the people living here........i have never seen so much of apathy in any human race before.no offence but people over here just don't seem to come out of their mental block.they would very proudly say on your face ''hindi nahi aata'' in hindi......are we fools....or they are just ignorant?people in rest of the India is talking about globalisation and think of world as a global village....whereas a very vital part of India don't even want to speak the most commonly used Indian language.
bangaloreans probably don't believe in the concept fellow citizens.........there is no warmth in this city at all.this place is life less.
talking about life ....have you hear ed something called night life?well if you are born and brought up in Bangalore or you have come here recently then possibility is such that you might be hearing it for the first time!i come from a city where night life starts at night.........after midnight the party begins......and here party shuts.by chance ur working late and after work want to distress and catch up on a couple of drinks......dude better luck next time.u call it a fast city.a growing city..blah blah blah blah.................................and it doesn't have a night life....''chee chee''.
its not that it doesn't have anything its has malls and ccds and malls and ccds.one or two mochas here and there.......................that comprises of'' lots of hang out places''.
once i was reading a blog on comparison between kolkata and Bangalore on orkut where the writer has openly disgraced other cities completely forgetting that his ''naturally beautiful '' Bangalore is not a paradise after all.
when people say'' Bangalore city''!!!...... i wonder ..............is it?

homosexuality.....not a crime

India is supposed to be conservative,ethnic country.but who labelled us so.if we go centuries back and peek a little it is clearly visible that ancient India the real India was much more liberal.caves of ajanta and Elora,sun temple of orissa is a living example.
it is certainly very heartening to see that our country has lost its individuality and blindly follows what others have preached and believe in others legacy.we often say we are proud of our culture and heritage but do we really understand what our culture is?before the establishment of ipc in 1860 there was no force applied on homosexuality and people from different places used to come to India and settle because of its liberal environment.but being gay was strongly frowned upon by Britishers who amended ipc 377 thus criminalising homosexuality.more than a century has passed since then and England is done with that kind of ridiculous law but India still sticks to its masters' whims and fancies!
what is wrong if two people love each other and want to be in the company of each other.its their personal preference.if i like a guy its my choice and the same way if i happen to like a girl and love her no one has the right to point a finger at me.
when i see people protesting for gay rights i don't know whether i am feeling happy that Indians are coming out of closet or claustrophobic as we are not allowed to be the way we want to be.we don't have to take out a rally if we have to breathe pure air,eat food or more interestingly get married to opposite sex then why we have have to go through so much of ordeal to establish our choices?
i have lot of friends who have come out in day light and bravely told the world about their choices and faced mockery extended up to the level of cruelty with a smiling face.people who supports the notion''going against the nature'' always brings out the aids issue........they have nothing else to say!if they are so much concerned about the spread of the deadly disease then they should first vandalise the brothels and make sure that infected blood is not transferred to any unconscious patient!
but do they have time time for that?they would rather hurl abuses to gays and lesbians than doing something to save our society from real menace.
the truth is we Indians are hypocrites!........its high time now that we stand in front of the mirror and evaluate character.