It's been more than a month since I landed in Bangalore for my summer internship but I haven't quite had the opportunity to explore it. After going home to chennai for the last 4 weekends, I decided I will stick around this time. Hence, the last saturday, after the morning and afternoon were spent peacefully eating and sleeping, we decided finally it was time for some action.
It was a cool saturday evening when me and my friends set foot on the Forum, a shopping mall. Although I had paid a fleeting visit to it earlier last month, this was the first time I was exploring it in detail. With Mcdonald's in the front and KFC in the rear and many more biggies in between, the Forum is catering to the new, emerging class of young Indians who are increasingly willing to pay anything for what they consider fashionable or the 'in' thing. The Landmark shop was the highlight. You can get lost for hours together in the maze of books. My favorite pastime when I was in chennai was to get in there and keep reading sections of many books without actually buying anything. Anyways, since we had better plans that day, we just moved on after buying a purse for my friend. We then proceeded to check out the movies at the PVR cinemas and as expected all the night shows were full. After window shopping for some more time, we finally settled down in McDonald's. The transparent glass meant we could look at the entrance of Forum and the best time of the evening was there. For nearly an hour, we kept looking at all the girls who were passing by. It was a throwback to the good, old engineering days when we used to do the same sitting in bus stops and railway stations. Of course, the worrying thing for us was that most of the girls were accompanied by their boy-friends. There were also rare moments when we did catch a couple of girls all by themselves. At the end of the day, it was a very satisfying outing :)
Overall, a few things I have observed in Bangalore are:
It was a cool saturday evening when me and my friends set foot on the Forum, a shopping mall. Although I had paid a fleeting visit to it earlier last month, this was the first time I was exploring it in detail. With Mcdonald's in the front and KFC in the rear and many more biggies in between, the Forum is catering to the new, emerging class of young Indians who are increasingly willing to pay anything for what they consider fashionable or the 'in' thing. The Landmark shop was the highlight. You can get lost for hours together in the maze of books. My favorite pastime when I was in chennai was to get in there and keep reading sections of many books without actually buying anything. Anyways, since we had better plans that day, we just moved on after buying a purse for my friend. We then proceeded to check out the movies at the PVR cinemas and as expected all the night shows were full. After window shopping for some more time, we finally settled down in McDonald's. The transparent glass meant we could look at the entrance of Forum and the best time of the evening was there. For nearly an hour, we kept looking at all the girls who were passing by. It was a throwback to the good, old engineering days when we used to do the same sitting in bus stops and railway stations. Of course, the worrying thing for us was that most of the girls were accompanied by their boy-friends. There were also rare moments when we did catch a couple of girls all by themselves. At the end of the day, it was a very satisfying outing :)
Overall, a few things I have observed in Bangalore are:
1) The auto-wallas can speak in Kannada, Hindi or English. They understand Tamil and Telugu as well. They are more honest than the chennai autowallahs but still some way to go before they can catch up with their mumbai counterparts.
2) The roads are always congested and the infrastructure is poor - desperately in need of a good mass transport system.
3) The most obvious - highly cosmopolitan.
4) Cost of living is pretty high - only slightly less than what it would take you in Mumbai if you are a bachelor.
All in all, it's a nice place for bachelors to be, particularly if you are in the right places at the right times :)
All in all, it's a nice place for bachelors to be, particularly if you are in the right places at the right times :)
2 comments:
I was in Forum on a sunday evening at 6 ...It was so crowded that on every step of the escalator , there were people standing..and not to forget the karoake shows..
But then, definitely a good place for timepass
Actually things might not be the same in the long term since it is pretty much considered to be the 'ok' city for everyone - north indians and south indians, which is precisely the reason why bangalore has become congested and crowded in the past 4 years. I dont wanna see how its going to be in 10 years from now at the current growth rate. Its going to be real costly. Net, its a great city for a bachelorhood but not the ideal place to 'settle down' for long.
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