Bangalore experience!
I visited B'lore for my IIM interviews. I was piqued to blog about the city, but hadn't had net access, so I scribbled it on a notepad. The tour ended, and as usual I'm bad in post operative care meaning I forgot to host the post. Now after long, I got reminded of hosting this post. So here it goes...
*****
How much ever prejudiced one may be with Hyderabad, as is the case with me, you can't keep away from appreciating the city that Bangalore is. Keeping aside one aspect TRAFFIC congestion (which I'd not write about here), the city is awesome. Greenary all around... huge trunks abetting almost every road. Having forgotten what it means to feel the shade of a tree, living in Hyderabad, amidst increasing concrete blocks built as if with an intention to take revenge on trees in the city; the unending canopies of Bangalore brought a sense of unexplicable happiness. Almost every road i saw had a pavement, and in every kilometer radius I saw a nice park or two. Parks not in the sense of show case parks of Hyderabad Jubilee Hills, parks that are meant for their true purpose. Starting from less than a year old toddler to octagenarian couples you see all groups of people enjoying the ambience, some making rounds on the walk-way, some playing tennicoit or shuttle, some others helping their kids walk, some more just simply sitting in groups and chatting. I wonder what %ge of parks in Hyderabad ever lived up to such purpose. Also I observed that B'lore is a city for the people, unlike Hyderabad where people are for the city. I observed extensive sign boards, explaining the streets and cross roads all around the city making it possible for a newcomer to come and stop by right at the door step of the destination he is looking for. Here in Hyderabad, I doubt if even a single colony has such route map guidance.
*****
How much ever prejudiced one may be with Hyderabad, as is the case with me, you can't keep away from appreciating the city that Bangalore is. Keeping aside one aspect TRAFFIC congestion (which I'd not write about here), the city is awesome. Greenary all around... huge trunks abetting almost every road. Having forgotten what it means to feel the shade of a tree, living in Hyderabad, amidst increasing concrete blocks built as if with an intention to take revenge on trees in the city; the unending canopies of Bangalore brought a sense of unexplicable happiness. Almost every road i saw had a pavement, and in every kilometer radius I saw a nice park or two. Parks not in the sense of show case parks of Hyderabad Jubilee Hills, parks that are meant for their true purpose. Starting from less than a year old toddler to octagenarian couples you see all groups of people enjoying the ambience, some making rounds on the walk-way, some playing tennicoit or shuttle, some others helping their kids walk, some more just simply sitting in groups and chatting. I wonder what %ge of parks in Hyderabad ever lived up to such purpose. Also I observed that B'lore is a city for the people, unlike Hyderabad where people are for the city. I observed extensive sign boards, explaining the streets and cross roads all around the city making it possible for a newcomer to come and stop by right at the door step of the destination he is looking for. Here in Hyderabad, I doubt if even a single colony has such route map guidance.
posted by Jayachandra at 1:47 AM
1 Comments:
Sorry JayaChandra, I differ with you. I found our NTR garden much impressive than lal bagh. I found that MG Road or whatever it is named, to be a bigger concrete jungle than the Hyderabad's Hi-Tech city madhapur area. To top it all, coming from Bangalore just keeps asking one question. How come you guys in Hyderabad are able to widen roads by taking land from people, when taking an inch of land in Bangalore will cause riots. You understand the reason why Bangalore is facing issues with Traffic now... What you said might be right about Bangalore i.e. sign boards etc etc... but you see IT boom happened well ahead than it happened in Hyderabad, and the growth in facilities should have been equally good which did not. Now they are facing the end of the road which will happen sometime or the other. On the other hand, Hyderabad's development is much faster paced with the metro, flyovers and widening all happening in parallel.
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