Just curious – staples?

Tell me on thing. Why do our courier guys use so many staples on every package they ship? Is metal too cheap, or they don’t trust the adhesives to do the job? Or is it that they simply like punching holes through our personal documents?
Tell me who makes these small staple pins. I would go [...]

Just wanted …

… to use a custom header image, so played with a few themes. Hope this one looks okay. Could have put one of those Bangalore traffic pics on the header, but thats a bit too real. And those things are temporary as well, matter of 4-5 more years :) Left part of header is railway [...]

The interesting Metro update

[Cross posted on Praja]
Just read through Bangalore Metro’s August’07 updates. Read through the first few pages of that pdf, and you realize that land acquisition seems to be delaying a few tasks – notice the schedule column, search for phrases “revised” or “after land acquisition”.
These delays were always expected to be a part of the [...]

Airport expressway update

[cross posted on Praja]
We have all been screaming on the subject for a while now. But this business-standard update on BIAL expressway is interesting, because it talks dates:
… sources said many powerful politicians also owned land along the alignment … and wanted it changed … “We changed the alignment five times unofficially before freezing it. [...]

BCCI and ICL, how about a real fight?

Trust me I am not trying to script a Bambaiyaa movie plot here. But how about BCCI and ICL decide to fight their battle the right way, as in on a cricket ground?
My dream (here, back in Sep 06) is about to come true. We will have plenty of Mumbai Locals vs Bangalore Drivers (pardon [...]

Reva and Autorickshaw?

[cross posted at Praja-Bangalore]
There is this one thing I was hoping would happen, but it never did. Why did the promoters and makers of Reva (Maini) never try to push electric vehicles as an alternative to present-day auto-rickshaws?
An auto-rickshaw costs around Rs 1.3 lakhs today. 4 stroke ones would be a little more expensive than [...]

Elevated Inner Core Ring Road – whats up?

[Cross posted on Praja-Bangalore]
Remember the Inner Core Ring Road (ICRR) project? Find some documents here in case you need to jog your memory. BBMP and newspapers haven’t talked much about it lately, and then The Hindu carried this piece (steel structures favoured for ring road) a few days ago.
There was one thing that struck me [...]

Bangalore Police’s take on city roads

[Cross posted on Praja-Bangalore]
I was googling around when I stumbled upon this page on Bangalore Police website. Well written open talk, that goes to tell you that they do know the traffic problems and possible solutions. First up, a clear admission of the problem:
As there is no growth in infrastructure compared to the growth of [...]

Comedy of errors

That second Ind-Eng test was a memorable one, definitely for me. India won a test match abroad, okay, that is one. And they did this despite the fact that their best batsman didn’t play. Yuvraj Singh – the most talented bat in the lot right now (save perhaps for Dravid) and future anchor of the [...]

I want to play

“Radium”, he said. Sitting inside Chaibasa-Tatanagar passenger, I was curious to know the name of this kid who was lugging a big cricket kit.
“We live in Delhi. He is my son, a very good cricketer”, his dad started the conversation.
Delhi! And they carried a cricket kit all the way to this mining town in Jharkhand. [...]