benguluru rocks

Wats common to north korea's nuclear test, shashi tharoor's non selection as UN secretary general, booker prize to kiran desai, nobel for orhan pamuk and big b turning 64 ?? Well, these are the events which happened in the last ten days. However, my zero cognizance of these events renders me useless in writing about them. So i will write something else which happened in the last ten days- my whirlwind visit to bangalore or rather lets say benguluru(i dont want to get into skirmishes with the likes of revanna and kumaraswamy). For now, lets continue with bangalore.

After reading this write up please dont brand me voyeuristic.I hail from vizag. In my graduation days, the common opinion about bangalore among my classmates is that BANGALORE ROCKS. why ?? Not because of the IT industry but because of girls. Surprised ?? You wont be, if you are a tier-2 city denizen. Wats tier-2 city ?? Well, tier-2 city is a city which is semi-metro and ethos are predominantly conservative. It is commercially viable but for revelry aka bachhanalia it SUCKS.

In bangalore which happens to be a tier-1 city, among 100 girls one girl wears chudidar and in vizag, among 100 girls one girl wears jeans. And in my cousin's words- who hails from bhubaneshwar and who works for infosys in bangalore- in bbsr, among 200 girls one wears jeans. In the ngo's for destitutes, the children are not given bed initially to sleep on. Because it is a kind of culture shock for them. All their life, they have been sleeping on rock solid floor and now they cant adjust to the mattress. The same culture shock happens to me whenever i roam along the streets of mg road or loiter along the alleys of forum mall.

I mean, if you are a tier-2 city person, avoiding see through tops is quite difficult. Or rather lets say, your pavlovian reflexes will not let you to. I wonder if my jockey trunks are bigger than the shorts which the girls wear out there. And boy oh boy, those low necklines with ample cleavage will make a tier-2 person gasping for breath and gaping for more. And of course those harlet tops. I used to wonder, only scarlet johansson wears them regularly. But nah, bangalore has its quota of scarlett johansson's. This is the same bangalore which is going to introduce kannada from next year as a compulsory subject. Nevertheless, this is the same bangalore where led zeppelin is worshipped and tons of used condoms are extracted from the back of air conditioners of the BPO's. this is the bangalore in which everyone is hip-hop and have their own style mantras. cut to vizag, boot cut jeans are still in vogue. Pink is not yet considered "in".
And in vizag, metrosexual is the one who streaks his hair.

In our college, god save the stripling who initiates a chat with a girl. He will be the butt of ridicule . Why ?? Cos, tier-2 city guys dont have the courage initiate chat with girls. and so they mock at the ones who try to. Cut to bangalore, every guy is flanked by two girls. Do i envy him ?? NO. Wud i like to be in his place ?? YESS.. I visited crossword in bangalore. It was such a delight going there. With all those ergonomic chairs provided to whet ur appetite for books as much as you want and no one to question you. And in vizag , may god bless you if you happen to flip through the pages of book without buying. Thanks to crossword, i got the paperback of alchemy of desire and if not for my pint sized luggage bag i wud hv even bought the pirated copy of the 7 kg of sacred games. And here in vizag, sacred games original is not yet available..

However, dates at bangalore will make a dent into your wallet. A movie date would cost 400 bucks and brunch at barista another 250 at the minimum. And lo behold in vizag, everything would happen for atmost 200.. Thank god, we dont have any pvr's over here.. I am not ready to shell out 200 for some goddamn movie. I am not ready to fork out 60 bucks for broken pieces of lijjat papad rechristened as some obscure name.

I hope my write up does not sound like an 8th standard civics answer for question - difference between tier-1 and tier-2 cities. After reading this am sure, tier-1 guys will laugh, tier-1 girls will lament at me, tier-2 guys will agree and tier-2 girls will loathe me. I hope it remains so.