Getting Used to the Huff and Puff of Bangalore

Every single day there is an article in the newspapers on the terrible traffic in B'lore. Corporates are complaining, NGO's are complaining, common people are cribbing but the government instead of finding solutions to this menace, is blaming the big corporates for not employing enough Kannadigas...
Ok let us look at it this way...The IT companies in Bangalore recruit from the private colleges and govt colleges in Bangalore. The state govt approved the setting up of all these pvt colleges. I am sure there must have been some "greasing the palm" mechanism happening somewhere down the lline for giving approvals to these colleges. Now to get a return on their investment the colleges must charge high fees from the students. Now whose probelm is it if non-kannadiga students happen to study in Karnataka and end up getting jobs in the IT companies here.
Lets lay that to rest. The govt sure is trying to project Mysore and Mangalore as alternatives but Bangalore is 7 million and growing.
Mumbai on the other hand is 15 million and bursting in the seams. Mumbai is spread better than B'lore and the public infrastructure is miles ahead compared to B'lore but only compared to B'lore. Let us not talk about whats lacking in Mumbai.
I miss a lot of people/things in Mumbai.
Staying alone is like a sin actually. It is so difficult to imagine watching TV alone and not being able to discuss the possibilities of the last test of the Ashes, of the loss in form of Arsenal, which movie to watch in the weekend. Things change, cicumstances change, needs change.
The Indian Express you get here in south is a distant cousin to the Shekhar Gupta edited one. But you can always read the all encompassing Hindu. I happened to read the TOI Bangalore today (Hindu was sold out in that shop at 7:50 AM, can you imagine that) and all I can say is they are still as good as they were then. But I am sure they are targeted at a different kind of people. Talking about Hindu, its as opinionated a paper as IE, maybe more.
Early mornings are really chilly here in B'lore. And the whole day remains like that - about to rain and cloudy. Having hot Poori-Aloo Masala and filter coffee in the morning makes my day. I do not know how many of you people have seen the kind of fast food joints in B'lore. they are stand-up joints (not like stand up comedians, what a PJ). You pay, give the coupon, get the food, stand and eat( Of course there are tables to keep your plates and glasses). You can see the food being made, hence its their priority to make the food neat and clean and keep the kitchen also very clean.
I stay at a place which has got a group of private colleges - Engg, MBBS, Biotech, MBA, arts...you name it, they have it. So as a result, there are a lot of eating joints near my place. You can taste typical Mallu, Tam, Gulti, Bong or Punjabi in a small lane around the college. The eating joints are infested with college students and the roads zooming with bikes. This is other than your staple diet of CCDs and Barista's and bakeries.
I am planning to move into an apartment, very close to the Barista there. About that later
Sujith