Driving home from work is akin to experiencing life. The hard labour of push to get past the first signal, then a happy jostle like a kid with a bit of rough and tumble over the flyover. Then like a teenager, I squeeze thro’ a narrow stretch with many vehicles attempting to go forward in the moving jam, before I hit the wide roads, speedy and breezy like mid 30s. A botched up traffic signal…
In this age of extreme personalisation, our corporation is making personal lakes by an ingenious combination of existing roads that form craters and new roads made with special dips. These are called ‘micro kere’. When it rains, you get your personal lakes close to the place where you live. Vive la ‘micro kere’ in namma sillyconCIty . #sillyconCity (#158)‘kere’ means lake in Kannada.
A drunken man with a dangling beedi staggers across a busy road. A disabled man in a wheelchair carefully navigates the same busy road. A young kid helps her mother with a young baby cross the road. A dog darts rapidly to the other side. The motor biker from wrong side rapidly cuts into the right side. The car honks and the bus blares. I just watch the fun, while riding the cycle. Crossings in…
To all the PBP 2019 folks from India (big continent of 300) starting tomorrow “Bon courage”. Enjoy the ride!
The comment of Rajani Kanth in my last poem (Java, Caava & Cloud) “The last 4 lines is the real reason why the infrastructure collapsed. This city was never ready for so many, and the roads were never ready for their bikes/cars” tickled my muse. “Ella Aaramaa” in Kannada means “All ok?”, typically used as a greeting when we meet someone.
They dug up majority of roads in the city and hastily covered it. Then a bunch of people went to resorts and hastily a new govt came in. Some people said there were underground dealings. Aah, now I get it, the connection between digging and rigging. Politics of sillyconCity. #sillyconCity (#156)
Freedom is such an interesting word, more misunderstood that understood. Is it being freed from external shackles like land boundaries, in bondage, poverty, stifled expression ?
Here is my view in “Freedom to be is (Part 3)” triggered by my dear friend Perry’s post in Urban Solace – Cafe for the Soul.
I was so shackled by the freedom on our namma Bengaluru roads on Aug 15. Jeez, my vehicle kept on moving and I could see the entire road all the way. Holiday in sillyconCity. #sillyconCity (#155)
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The second one on freedom titled “Freedom to be is (Part 2)” was also the result of my dear friend @Perry’s post in his Movie Magic at Urban Solace page.
This one takes a look at freedom a little differently – “an individual unshackled and at peace with oneself”
Another one for you dear Perry Menzies for Tuesdays with the bard at Urban Solace – Cafe for the Soul.