(This post was written when the original ridiculous name was announced, long before the team was renamed “Kochi Tuskers Kerala”. This was the most widely read post on my blog, and hope it has contributed something towards the name getting changed :)) Some things are just bound to fail. Ever since its inception, the Kochi IPL team has…
The average front-engined bus in India is just a truck with seats mounted in its back and a roof over them as bus operators just buy truck chassis and build bus bodies on them. These are not just horribly inefficient but also uncomfortable and back-breaking. Almost everywhere in the world buses are always back-engined and operators buy real buses and…
Bangalore or Bengaluru was once known for many things, be its idyllic pace of life as a pensioners’ paradise, leafy avenues, rock music, informal culture, the “AC City” weather, and more recently for finding its place on the World map in the past decade as “India’s IT Capital”. But today, the city is mainly known…
Much has been outraged about the autorickshaw drivers in Bangalore and their overcharging habits. People seem to be helpless in front of them trying to wring out a profit by hook or by crook, the law often being helpless. But sorry to say, many a time the naive passenger who has a chance to get…
Either there is no one above 40 left in the country anymore, or they are all actively conspiring to avoid each other at any cost. The latter seems to be more plausible because the more you meet people of your age at this stage of life, the more are you made painfully aware of how…
The design language and colours chosen for the new KSRTC buses are substantially diluting KSRTC’s brand identity.
Today morning I alighted from the 16316 Kochuveli – Bangalore Express at Bangalore Krishnarajapuram at 0725, bang on time after a very comfortable overnight journey from Ernakulam. The real ordeal, however, only lay ahead of me: I had to get home from the hellhole that is KR Puram railway station junction. Usually, I wouldn’t think…
Notwithstanding the awesome experience and success it has been, it has now come out that during the Metallica gig in Bangalore on October 3oth, hundreds of people had lost their belongings, meaning bags with gadgets, documents and even passports in them! This Facebook note post has been doing the rounds in the effect of this,…
The Living Daylights, just like its explosive name, was one of the defining movies in the series in more ways than one. Bond’s 15th outing came 25 years after the start of the franchise, and was the first of Timothy Dalton’s two Bond movies. The opinion on Dalton is largely divided, but he did succeed…
There was a time not so long ago which today would be difficult to even imagine having existed. I am talking about those ancient days when there was no way to meet people other than physically getting out of your house and encounter other human beings face to face. Young Indian people were the ones…
How the subscription model pioneered by electric vehicle manufacturers will transform the concept of ownership.
Everyone agrees that Bangalore is not what it used to be, say, 20 years ago. But the fact is that it is not what it used to be just 10 or even 8 years ago! All these roads, malls, IT parks, flyovers, elevated highways and huge apartment complexes came up in this decade, and many…