“A thin line separates your office and home – we call it as Hosur Road” – A statement on the hoarding advertising the sale of apartments struck me. Welcome to the Silicon Valley of India, also known as Bengaluru. Every Tom, Dick here is in Infosys and Wipro, and every Harry (the lesser mortals) are in HCL and the leftovers are in hundreds of others of the same ilk.
For my friends who never had the God forsaken chance of first hand visit of Electronic City in Bangalore perhaps this can be some news. What this statement meant is when all the IT giants are on one side of the road you can purchase a house on the other side of the road which is purely a residential area.
This statement should actually read – “A thin line separates the city and the village”. And all the nostalgic folks like me who miss their village life dearly for all this mad rush of becoming rich overnight would really cherish this situation. It’s like enjoying fruits of both the world; work with the most revered names in the industry and also enjoy the dusky lanes of a village.
This so called thin line also has another thick significance to it – the extremities of the lifestyle of the people. One side of the road you will find swanky lawns with all modern amenities, restaurants, shops and what not; inside the campuses that you can even plan a date. But on the other side, while you can easliy spot people enjoying som-rasa once it gets dark, you struggle to find a decent hotel for food.
But I guess this research is farfetched at least now since it doesn’t affect any because the people who work on one side don’t live on the other side and vice versa. I only wonder what will happen after one year, the proposed time for this thin line to become 6 lane flyover, when the city would be too choked to accommodate any more techies.
For my friends who never had the God forsaken chance of first hand visit of Electronic City in Bangalore perhaps this can be some news. What this statement meant is when all the IT giants are on one side of the road you can purchase a house on the other side of the road which is purely a residential area.
This statement should actually read – “A thin line separates the city and the village”. And all the nostalgic folks like me who miss their village life dearly for all this mad rush of becoming rich overnight would really cherish this situation. It’s like enjoying fruits of both the world; work with the most revered names in the industry and also enjoy the dusky lanes of a village.
This so called thin line also has another thick significance to it – the extremities of the lifestyle of the people. One side of the road you will find swanky lawns with all modern amenities, restaurants, shops and what not; inside the campuses that you can even plan a date. But on the other side, while you can easliy spot people enjoying som-rasa once it gets dark, you struggle to find a decent hotel for food.
But I guess this research is farfetched at least now since it doesn’t affect any because the people who work on one side don’t live on the other side and vice versa. I only wonder what will happen after one year, the proposed time for this thin line to become 6 lane flyover, when the city would be too choked to accommodate any more techies.
3 comments:
Wow!...thats the one word that comes to mind...reading this post.Very well thought,and put in quite humorous way.hope to see more of such kind soon :)
Good one buddy.........So you are staying in Village.....
People should read this.
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