While the city was fast asleep, we four were out on a “push the limits drive” in the national capitol, our destination was the India gate .We all were high on caffeine, after heavy dosage of devils own and sizzling brownies we started off on our great Delhi ride at around 2 Am .We were all pushing our limits, the driver, the great K was busy changing gears and waking up people. Delhi roads were the best in night with not much of traffic, ours was one of the very few four wheeler on road, the others being either six or ten wheelers carrying heavy loads and finding it tough to even climb a normal flyover, while our busy driver, the great K was busy taking high speed cuts, we did it we pushed our limits we reached a top speed of 150kmph at 3 40 am. We were disappointed to see the green lights flashing at the traffic signals because we wanted to follow traffic rules at 2 Am in the night and also teach the truck drivers some traffic rules which they rarely follow. The not so visible
Monday, February 25, 2008
Pushing the Limits - @NCR
Friday, February 8, 2008
Public Transport
Conveyance is the word. !!
I always used to dream of the night life in a city, the disks the pubs and the late night buffets, but what to do? Here I am struck in the cement jungle where u got to have ur own conveyance to roam around. The public sector doesn’t offer anything , but the private sector does , they run bus service , I rather call them match boxes filled with twice the number of match sticks than its capacity , perhaps twice is also an understatement. The first thing that u hear in the bus journey is two people hanging out of the bus and shouting chapan chapan chapan (56 56 56 referring to sector 56) throughout the journey ,even if they know no one else can fit in the bus they over load it just to earn that extra 5 bucks . I almost travel in this bus at the same time everyday so do my fellow companions , I see the same middle aged man with his wife discussing some family issues in an unknown language , the same not so pretty wannabe air-hostess , the same college going students reading the same book everyday . They all are like my friends now , I spend this long 40 mins bus journey observing them , sometimes I even overhear what they discuss , (they are way to loud to even avoid) majority of the discussions involve employees bitching about there managers , wifes about their husbands and India about their cricket team . Trust me when I find it difficult to even breathe in the bus people are busy discussing every other topic in the news, I even saw some one discussing Obama and Clinton (was surprising)and ya how can forget the loud haryanwi songs played by my bus driver to add on to our frustration. I can’t avoid this journey the only best option I have is to take the company cab at 7 am or to take a private cab by shelling out 200 bucks. So in unavoidable circumstances I end up boarding the bus.
This is the case with buses ,Autos its even worse seven seaters are treated as seventeen seaters loaded with people all over! it won’t be surprising to see the driver inviting someone to sit in his lap while he is driving in the near future, for all the visionaries who feel that the nano can replace an auto in India they have to definitely give a second thought to this. I had this small but rather scary experience in a jeep , with people all over it trust me we were 30 people in an old armada with people hanging on its doors while the driver is driving at 80kmph , that’s the situation of public transport in the so called IT Hub of India , if the public really have the capacity to buy there own cars then why are these buses overloaded , there is a huge necessity for immediate action on this . Perhaps a private player itself needs to enter this market and make conveyance better. (might not win you a b'plan competition but definetly will give loads of business)
This is all reality I didn’t exaggerate any bit.
Reporting From Gurgaon
Bharat Bongu
I always used to dream of the night life in a city, the disks the pubs and the late night buffets, but what to do? Here I am struck in the cement jungle where u got to have ur own conveyance to roam around. The public sector doesn’t offer anything , but the private sector does , they run bus service , I rather call them match boxes filled with twice the number of match sticks than its capacity , perhaps twice is also an understatement. The first thing that u hear in the bus journey is two people hanging out of the bus and shouting chapan chapan chapan (56 56 56 referring to sector 56) throughout the journey ,even if they know no one else can fit in the bus they over load it just to earn that extra 5 bucks . I almost travel in this bus at the same time everyday so do my fellow companions , I see the same middle aged man with his wife discussing some family issues in an unknown language , the same not so pretty wannabe air-hostess , the same college going students reading the same book everyday . They all are like my friends now , I spend this long 40 mins bus journey observing them , sometimes I even overhear what they discuss , (they are way to loud to even avoid) majority of the discussions involve employees bitching about there managers , wifes about their husbands and India about their cricket team . Trust me when I find it difficult to even breathe in the bus people are busy discussing every other topic in the news, I even saw some one discussing Obama and Clinton (was surprising)and ya how can forget the loud haryanwi songs played by my bus driver to add on to our frustration. I can’t avoid this journey the only best option I have is to take the company cab at 7 am or to take a private cab by shelling out 200 bucks. So in unavoidable circumstances I end up boarding the bus.
This is the case with buses ,Autos its even worse seven seaters are treated as seventeen seaters loaded with people all over! it won’t be surprising to see the driver inviting someone to sit in his lap while he is driving in the near future, for all the visionaries who feel that the nano can replace an auto in India they have to definitely give a second thought to this. I had this small but rather scary experience in a jeep , with people all over it trust me we were 30 people in an old armada with people hanging on its doors while the driver is driving at 80kmph , that’s the situation of public transport in the so called IT Hub of India , if the public really have the capacity to buy there own cars then why are these buses overloaded , there is a huge necessity for immediate action on this . Perhaps a private player itself needs to enter this market and make conveyance better. (might not win you a b'plan competition but definetly will give loads of business)
This is all reality I didn’t exaggerate any bit.
Reporting From Gurgaon
Bharat Bongu
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Role Reversal
Time and money are the two most important assets for anyone, here I am sitting in a well furnished office and trying to waste one of them, (time of course) by starting to write yet another blog entry .suddenly while talking to a close friend of mine it struck my mind what if there is a small role reversal what if time takes over the place of money in this world. The obvious reason that I want this to happen is that I have loads of the former and a very little of the latter, so why cant the former taker over the latter. Just imagine I have already lost so many valuable seconds. In this world there is no peace , with money there is greed that is prevalent in this world , people think twice to even do there daily necessary activities , people think twice before praying , they think twice to sleep , they wont watch tv , they wont chat to friends , what will they do they will try to use there time effectively . Now what do u mean by using time effectively, isn’t doing ur daily activities using time effectively, isn’t a short conversation with someone u love using time effectively, isn’t resting using time effectively. there would be so much peace in this world ,the day time replaces money, as it is the only asset and as money is an asset that can be wasted , everyone is equally rich , people burn money (literally) and still be at the same social status , people sleep the whole day and still be the same , people will now have the time to care about their fellow humans , people will be people. As It is god who gives time , he gives 24 hrs for all his children , he gives the same 24 to the black and also to the white , to the rich and also to the poor , to u and also to me. All are happy, all professions will be happy, people will tend to stay back in their own mother land, and my motherland will be the richest with so many people caring for each other. I just realized I am sitting in my office, in the C (competitive) world, where people are working for money and here I am trying to waste time by replacing time by money . “ Money is not Everything in Life ” – perhaps u should have enough money to say this (this line is not mine , one of my friend said this).perhaps I will be eligible to say the dialogue one day.
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