Most people who have spend some time in bengaluru know that more than often it rains in the night, in particular this time of the year. On the day of the match it was very clear that there would be shower (clue is dark clouds, just have to look up). But they still carried on, I guess once they decide they don’t change, I also guess that is what they call discipline, expectedly rains interrupted and the game was stopped for many hours and all this time the flood lights were on (they did switch the lights the day before too, to check I guess). If some one calculates the electricity waste it would be thousands of watts. And then they bring out ads telling us how to save electricity. They also construct huge dams, create environmental havoc, displace societies…all for the “demand” for electricity. Quite amazing.
One wonders what is in this game that couldn’t be played in the sunlight or is it part of
More about happenings in Bengaluru: few weeks back there was a huge traffic jam due to some political rally. This blo
gger was stuck for sometime but thankfully was able to sneak out through a short cut (that is the best part of traveling in two-wheeler you can squiggle through. Bangaloreans are ok kind of people relatively calmer in traffic with occasional en re thu, which more than being offensive makes me laugh the thu part- very unique to bengaluru). Also this blogger is not into meeting deadlines (dead serious about that!!) so not in any hurry. But yes I am very concerned about stranded ambulances, I sincerely hoped they are upgraded to take these delays.
The media was up in arms against the political rallies. This blogger doesn’t share the volatile reactions of the media against the political parties. There are many reasons for that most important being- political parties have all the right to hold rallies the problem is mismanagement and lack of proper facilities. Further if I knew about this event I would have avoided that route. This blogger though has strong reservation against city roads being converted into track for marathon. If they want why cant they go to bengaluru-mysuru highway?. Part of the road could be converted into this event thus not blocking the traffic.
Also one shouldn’t read too much into the media’s high moral ground on this issue since they are doing what is good for their business, it is their consumers who are the victims here. They will choose issues that have potential to sell to their consumers. Political party (in this case JDS) holding rallies are equally not bothered about city dwellers since their base is mostly rural, they too are serving their clients. Most people in cities are not much concerned about what happens to rural
