Chaos on Bannerghatta Road

Recently (on 31st July) Karnataka CM inaugurated most pending flyover in B'lore (may be in India) for public. I came to B'lore before 3 years and almost since then I'm watching construction of this fly over. This fly over was constructed to ease intermediate ring road traffic, which passes from Banashankari to CSB circle on Hosur road through BTM. (Actually seeing BTM circle is bottleneck point on that road.) Few months back this fly over was opened from East End to BTM but in a short period they had to reverse the direction of traffic as they started constructing underpass. So one stretch of fly over which was supposed to carry traffic of Bannerghatta road to BTM was waiting for long time for commuters. Lots of people suffered for a very long period due to construction of this fly over. Every one commuting on this way was waiting for this flyover to open as soon as possible so that they'll get some relief from regular traffic jams (clogs). Finally the most awaited day arrived, CM opened flyover for public and underpass too. But the picture turned to be totally reversed as expected and as presumed. The traffic on Bannerghatta road almost came to halt. Even I was one of those who got stuck in that traffic jam. I's just coming from forum through dairy circle. And I opted for underpass. And I’s shocked to see that these was a huge traffic jam right from the center on under pass. But as I already entered there I had no choice to turn back. Then I thought I’d go ahead and take a right turn and move towards my destination through JP Nagar 3rd block. But situation went worst when I came to know that all right turns on the road are sealed and I have to go till Mandovi Motors to move out of that traffic jam. And of course I's not the only person in this situation. Many were there to give me company. There was a family on their Kinetic Honda wishing to reach their home mostly in JP Nagar 3rd phase. But even they could not take a right turn and had to come till Mandovi Motors and then take U turn to reach their home. I could see that the lady sitting behind was literally tired of sitting on vehicle in such heavy traffic jam. But still a small kid with them was making faces and enjoying the situation. Finally after half or more that half an hour I reached Mandovi Motors and rushed on Ring Road and got traffic jam again as expected. This half an hour was really not what everyone expected after opening of flyover. It took me half an hour just to cross about 1km distance. The place near to Commerse@Mantri on Bannerghatta was a real bottleneck. Vehicles were rushing from under pass, overpass and from inside BTM and the road leading after this place was just a two lane where as it has to be at least three lanes to handle so high inflow of vehicles. Where as on the other side of road where we could hardly see vehicles is made almost 4 lanes. And we could see sides of road are used as parking lot by people to park their vehicles. It's really an amazing contrast on the same road. Suddenly I remember Blue Star AC ad, which tell about desert and snow fall in same office. And I finished my day with such a great experience. Next day morning I started to my office located on Bannerghatta road in Bilekahalli area. It's just 2.2km from my home but took almost half an hour to reach. I crossed Delmia circle when signal opened for us third time. There was no place for vehicles to move ahead of Delmia circle as traffic jam reached till Delmia from Mandovi Motors junction. It's all chaotic situation on ring road. When I reached on Bannerghatta road the situation was worse and remained as it was for the whole day. Bannerghatta road was chocked up for whole day and may be till 10-11 o'clock in the night. Here are few pics, which I took on Bannerghatta road as well as ring road.

Because of such some people started taking short cuts. And to mention, road besides Garam Masala Hotel was the best at that time even I used the same one. But even its entrance was clogged as you can see in following pics.

Somehow I reached on ring road through JP Nagar 4th phase and shocked to see vehicle lined up Ring road. Even you can see those as below.

And on next day I met a very strange situation. The road that hardly sees any vehicle on it was literally flooded with vehicles making one side to halt for almost 5-10 mins. And of course I's in that halted traffic. It’s a road, which comes in from Delmia circle towards dollar’s colony in JP Nagar 4th phase. Just have a look at an amount of traffic.

I hope this side effect on Bannerghatta Road traffic because of Jayadeva Flyover opening will be cured soon. And everything becomes normal ..

Chain Mails

A Mail from a frustrated victim of chain mails:

 

I wanted to thank all my friends and family who have forwarded chain letters to me in 2003 & 2004 & 2005 & 2006

 

Because of your kindness:  

• I stopped drinking Coca Cola after I found out  that it's good for removing toilet stains.
  
  
• I stopped going to the movies for fear of sitting  on a needle infected with AIDS.
  
  
• I smell like a wet dog since I stopped using deodorants because they cause cancer.
  
  
• I don't leave my car in the parking lot or any other place and sometimes. I even have to walk about 7 blocks for fear that someone will drug me with a perfume sample and  try to rob  me.
  
  
• I also stopped answering the phone for fear that they may ask me to dial a stupid number and then I get a phone bill from with calls to Uganda , Singapore and Tokyo .
  
  
• I also stopped drinking anything out of a can for fear that I will get sick from the rat feces and urine.
  
  
• When I go to parties, I don't look at any girl, no matter how hot she is, for fear that she will take me to a hotel, drug me then take my kidneys and leave me taking a nap in a bathtub full of ice.
  
  
• I also donated all my savings to the Amy Bruce account. A sick girl that was about to die in the hospital about 7,000 times. (Poor girl! she's been 7 since 1993...)
  
  
• I went bankrupt from bounced checks that I made expecting the $15,000 that Microsoft and AOL were supposed to send me when I participated in their special e-mail program would arrive soon.
  
  
• My free Nokia phone never arrived and neither did the free passes for a paid vacation to Disneyland .
  
  
• Still open to help some from Bulgaria who wants to use my account to transfer his uncle property of some hundred million$.
  
  
• Made some Hundred wishes before forwarding those Ganesh Vandana, Tirupathi Balaji pics etc ... now most of those 'Wishes' are already married (to someone else)

Proud To Be An Indian

FACTS TO MAKE EVERY I n d i a n PROUD

Q. Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems?
A. Vinod Khosla

Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)?
A. Vinod Dahm

Q. Who is the third richest man on the world?
A. According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is Lakshmi Mittal.

Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program)?
A. Sabeer Bhatia

Q. Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator of program languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)?
A. Arun Netravalli

Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard?
A. Rajiv Gupta

Q. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems?
A. Sanjay Tejwrika

Q. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?
A. Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.

Q. We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even faring better than the whites and the natives.
There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (1.5% of population). YET,

• 38% of doctors in USA are Indians.
• 12% scientists in USA are Indians.
• 36% of NASA scientists are Indians.
• 34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
• 28% of IBM employees are Indians.
• 17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.
• 13% of XEROX employees are Indians.

Some of the following facts may be known to you. These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA.

1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.
2. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
3. The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
4. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.
5. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
6. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty striken and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth.
7. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
8. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now known as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works dates to the 6 th Century which is long before the European mathematicians.
9. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11 th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 1053.
10. According to the Gemmological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.
11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
13. Chess was invented in India.
14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India.
15. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilisation).
16. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.

Quotes about India.
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

Albert Einstein.

• India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition.

Mark Twain.

• If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

French scholar Romain Rolland.

• India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

Hu Shih

• (former Chinese ambassador to USA)
  ALL OF THE ABOVE IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, THE LIST COULD BE ENDLESS.

BUT, if we don't see even a glimpse of that great India in the India that we see today, it clearly means that we are not working up to our potential; and that if we do, we could once again be an evershining and inspiring country setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow. I hope you enjoyed it and work towards the welfare of INDIA.
Say proudly,

I AM AN I N D I A N.