The village called Bangalore…

So what characterizes a village? Hmmm lets see…

First and foremost villagers…
A bunch of simple folk who wake up early in the morning, rush off to their rice and paddy fields to work for their livelihood. Yes, Bangalore has that in the form of IT guys (like me). We wake up early in the morning and go to work in our cubicles for our livelihood.

You also see the odd jobless, illiterate loafer lying under the village Banyan tree. Hmmmm…of course we have that too, the odd traffic cop who simply loiters around aimlessly.

The quintessential doe-eyed village belle…We have plenty of them here.

Not to mention the greenery and the dusty roads.

But yes what makes Bangalore really a village…NO FRIGGIN ELECTRICITY!!! To think that we had to spend a whole night without electricity, enslaved to the mosquito brigade and the humid climate as the cherry to top it off. The BESCOM office seems to have emplyed only 2 engineers, one of whom is always “working at the site of a major power breakdown”. The situation is pathetic and warrants immediate attention from the authorities. An unseeming byproduct of this tragedy is that the working population have become more producitve. How? We prefer spending more time in the comfort of our workplaces rather than come home to the mosquitoes. Hence we’re voluntarily doing overtime!

But hey wait a second; How could I categorically classify Bangalore as a village?? A village atleast has consistent water supply!!!

The apparent verdict — Bangalore — Worse than a village! They call this the silicon valley of India. My plea is sell off some of that silicon in the valley and buy some power for your people!!