Bangalore, Payyanur and now home

Welcome back!

Since the moment I left Pune, Maharashtra to be specific, the biggest thing in my hate list was roaming-mobile roaming…I was so bored travelling in Volvo to B’lore that I was on an SMS spree till the time, messaging really started creating holes in my pocket, from 10ps to Rs3.5 thats 35 times expensive , when I entered Karnataka….India is still divided!!! who says no??

I thought I will start this post with what is chic today, Bangalore bashing… this city is really bad, u will hate to be here, u can’t move..traffic is literally moving at snail’s pace….
Be it public on private transport, they just can’t move, thanks to all the flyovers that are under perennial construction, roads that are dug, all the one ways, traffic signals that accost you more often than u ever wish …

All these and the apathy and attitude from the administration sending wrong(right for Hyd) signals to India Inc… this city is not the wannabe for other cities anymore…its no longer the dream for professionals…the hype is over..the declining phase has started…companies have started pulling out….Intel, Toyota…the list is growing…

The media created hype has been disproven, the end is near… the capacity to lure ppl is no longer there…climate that is awry acting as the proverbial last straw..

You have a city of Malls and Multiplexes that are reachable only in 3 hours..who would go to a mall or a mux that ways???who has time???

A city thats chocked of bad infrastructure, I can hear the sound of the last bugle……

Its RIP, Bengaluru aka Bangalore

SHAME ON U B’LORE

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Enter Kerala and I see the most ubiquitous number 916, well thats what people say for gold’s purity here. We speak it terms of 916 and not carats, carats are passe… 916 is nothing but 22 carats in terms of 1000.. and yes Silk, and textile ads….one color that can beat the green color that symbolizes Kerala is the Yellow of the margin Free markets… India’s largest retail chain…close to 1000 stores across the state.. franchisee model…all branded and unbranded stuff at discounted rates, thats lower than MRP…selling mostly grocery, but a bit of consumer goods also there.

Retail is on a roll not only in India, Kerala, but even in a small town called Payyanur in northern Kerala. In Kerala, the number of Margin Free markets are still on the rise with 3 now in this town. And now a killer Rs. 7 Crore(yes thats huge for a small town!!!) investment waala super market has come up, Shopprix… they sell everything from food, to coffee to luggages to sports goods to vegetable to electronics to white goods to grocery to computers….all at heavy discounts…

Kerala is crazy as usual is buying, no wonder it is still a marketeers dream.. people are mad!!! The state as Harish Bijoor once said ,”is a long piece of urban land”. There is practically no rural urban divide, its rurban all over… and the junta is ready to buy more and more…more consumer goods, more cars….

Reached Trivandrum yesterday in Malabar express… these railway guys have made the max use of compartments… isnt it unequal treatment giving someone Side berths and some the other kinda berths.. Side berths can at the max fit in some 4 and half footers…the guy who designed these coaches must have been really crazy to squeeze in max no of passengers…

Now almost half way thru One Night @ the Call Center, Chetan Bhagat…..

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