Re: [silk] bangalore public transport

2008-02-10 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 09-Feb-08, at 1:16 PM, Vinayak Hegde wrote: I miss street-food as well. There used to a place near V V puram which was similar to the Khau-galli (Food Lanes in Marathi) in Mumbai. But it has depleted thanks to high-handedness of the Bangalore police. What do you mean? The place was

Re: [silk] bangalore public transport

2008-02-10 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: [ on 03:46 PM 2/10/2008 ] I miss street-food as well. There used to a place near V V puram which was similar to the Khau-galli (Food Lanes in Marathi) in Mumbai. But it has depleted thanks to high-handedness of the Bangalore police. What do you mean? The place was

Re: [silk] bangalore public transport

2008-02-10 Thread shiv sastry
On Sunday 10 Feb 2008 5:02 pm, Udhay Shankar N wrote: It's no longer possible to go get something to eat in VV Puram at 1 AM. It used to be. If I may launch off into one of my tangents - this area of VV Puram falls very close to the area covered by the Local residents Association of the area

Re: [silk] bangalore public transport

2008-02-10 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 10-Feb-08, at 9:08 PM, shiv sastry wrote: The evolution of such businesses in India starts with Just setting it up (Just do it). If uncontrolled we get a Gandhi Bazaar like situation in which the entire pavement is occupied by illegal vendors who do not pay a paisa of tax, but have been

Re: [silk] bangalore public transport

2008-02-10 Thread shiv sastry
On Sunday 10 Feb 2008 9:55 pm, Radhika, Y. wrote: I am not sure what you mean by people cannot walk on the pavements because of these vendors-do the vendors litter, or do they take up a lot of room with their paraphernalia and customers thereby resulting in people not being able to get from

Re: [silk] bangalore public transport

2008-02-10 Thread shiv sastry
On Sunday 10 Feb 2008 10:15 pm, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: To which, the resigned pedestrian in me has to ask: what pavement?   Since when did Bangalore start to get pavements as a regular feature   alongside roads? Old Bangalore has plenty of those. Basavanagudi was the first planned area of

Re: [silk] bangalore public transport

2008-02-10 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 10-Feb-08, at 10:32 PM, shiv sastry wrote: Old Bangalore has plenty of those. Basavanagudi was the first planned area of Bangalore - under the Brits. But many of the extensions that came later lack this simple facility, although the most recently developed ones do. The pavement along

Re: [silk] bangalore public transport

2008-02-10 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Feb 11, 2008 12:24 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10-Feb-08, at 10:32 PM, shiv sastry wrote: The pavement along your road is indeed one of the finest Bangalore has on offer. I've long been envious of it. The thing that bugs me no end is that despite whatever illusions

Re: [silk] bangalore public transport

2008-02-10 Thread shiv sastry
On Monday 11 Feb 2008 12:24 am, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: Either the pavement sits on top of a   gutter and stinks to high heaven, or the gutter is dry but the slabs   so uneven one risks twisting an ankle unless always looking down, or   the pavement is an obstacle course, with trees and bus

Re: [silk] bangalore public transport

2008-02-10 Thread Sajith T S
Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And your point is? Thread drifts are the most normal thing to happen in Silk, eh? That would be my pointlessness rather -- I'm somewhat new here. Anyone who's been around for over a week can see threads taking their natural course all the time (it's

Re: [silk] bangalore public transport - was Re: another intro

2008-02-10 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 01:39:27PM +0530, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote: To an outsider in Mumbai, Bangalore or Hyderabad, taking the bus is very difficult (Numbers in the non-arabic numerals, routes in the local script and all). This is my experience from a few years ago, so it might

Re: [silk] bangalore public transport

2008-02-10 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 04:56:53AM +, va wrote: which coupled with the Rail system, few other Indian cities can match 'that' nice a public transport system :) BUT I cant ever imagine a BEST driver waiting for the passenger to board/alight the bus perpetual motion, always. Here, the