you mean they don't pay legal tax, right? i believe they pay
substantial sums in forced bribes to the local cops etc...
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 21:08 +0530, shiv sastry wrote:
which the entire pavement is occupied by illegal vendors who do not
pay a
paisa of tax, but have been there long enough
On Thursday 21 Feb 2008 6:04:09 pm Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
you mean they don't pay legal tax, right? i believe they pay
substantial sums in forced bribes to the local cops etc...
In fact I have some experience of what happens because I have local area
problems of this sort. Typically the
On Feb 11, 2008 6:38 AM, Devdas Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BEST drivers do wait for you to board the bus (unless the bus is really
ahh... i wish :-) Most times they go 'ting'ting' before stopping at
the bus-stop (if its crowded they zoom off). Never allow people to
board from the front,
Arabic and Devanagari? i have only ever seen the kannada script(what is it
called?) and English.
On Feb 10, 2008 10:04 PM, Devdas Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 01:39:27PM +0530, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
wrote:
To an outsider in Mumbai, Bangalore or Hyderabad,
At 2008-02-11 07:53:23 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Arabic and Devanagari? i have only ever seen the kannada script(what
is it called?) and English.
The Kannada script is called Kannada. It's a distant descendant of
Brahmi. (But note that Devdas is talking about BEST, i.e. Bombay
buses, not
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 have
changed since then. But of all the cities I've taken public transport in,
On Saturday 09 Feb 2008 12:31 am, Ramjee Swaminathan wrote:
On 2/8/08, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well I am a bit of a fraud because:
Bangalore bus system has good connections, reasonable frequencies,
laid back population, chatty passngers etc etc. I am very happy with
this as a
On Saturday 09 Feb 2008 1:16 pm, Vinayak Hegde wrote:
Well one of my grouses with the Bus ssystem is all the boards are
in Kannada. Why not have them in dual languages such as Hindi / English.
BEST does this well.
What??!!!
Signs in foreign languages!! Never!
shiv
shiv sastry wrote:
On Saturday 09 Feb 2008 1:16 pm, Vinayak Hegde wrote:
Well one of my grouses with the Bus ssystem is all the boards are
in Kannada. Why not have them in dual languages such as Hindi / English.
BEST does this well.
What??!!!
Signs in foreign languages!! Never!
'em
On 2/9/08, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 09 Feb 2008 12:31 am, Ramjee Swaminathan wrote:
On 2/8/08, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great! What a pleasant surprise. :-) I didn't expect to find so many
reasonably happy users of the public bus systems, including Shiv's
On Feb 9, 2008 9:54 PM, Madhu Kurup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[1] Sulthan Bathery :: delightful little town, albeit, the wikipedia
article boringly enough calls it Sultan Battery
I always thought it had Tippu's artillery battery or some such and
hence the name.
Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I always thought it had Tippu's artillery battery or some such and
hence the name.
True, Tippu used a Jain temple to store ammo. Sultan's Battery is the
Brit name. Ganapathyvattom, even as Ganapady Watton, was a bit too
hard for them. :)
Malabar Manual
Sajith T S wrote:
But the thread drift, ehm...
And your point is? Thread drifts are the most normal thing to happen in
Silk, eh?
On 2/8/08, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/8/08, Linda L. Julien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
How's the public transportation in Bangalore?
snip
snip
Public transportation is pretty much non-existent in Bangalore. (unless your
starting point or destination is Majestic). The
Ramjee...that was an excellent treatise on how to use the Bangalore
bus system, thank you. I too have been using buses almost exclusively
(green decision!) and though I disagree with you on the time
taken...it took me 2 hours to go from my home to Vidhan SoudhaI do
agree that the bus services
I love the bangalore bus system. When i traveled everyday for 6 months in
2004 from Padmanabha Nagar to Indra Nagar and took the bus, i felt cleaner,
safer and more well-read to boot(reading books or people's faces-either way
there is a whole new world to be explored). And it was fantastic seeing
On Feb 8, 2008 7:01 PM, Ramjee Swaminathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/8/08, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nice rant, Vinayak! :-)
But I completely disagree with the take on the public transport.
I too use the bus network a lot (especially when i get frustrated
after asking
On Feb 9, 2008 12:31 AM, Ramjee Swaminathan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nice rant, Vinayak! :-)
But I completely disagree with the take on the public transport.
Then we agree to disagree. I was obviously exaggerating a little :-)
But public transport in Bangalore works only if you have loads of
On Feb 9, 2008 10:26 AM, va [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another nice thing, the front seats are for women (even BEST has 6
seats for women) only, which ensures i dont have to argue or use any
kata's on men who think its fine to accidentally brush against or feel
up or fall (by mistake of course)
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