Empty moments crawl slowly and scorching afternoon fades gradually - This year scorching afternoons have been spreading throughout the day. It has been and still is indeed a cruel summer. Even though the pre-monsoon is washing the evenings of Bangalore but rest of the day, it's the silent, hot and powerful sun - dominating the sky and dominating our lives.
Around two decades in Bangalore, I had fallen in love with the weather and also the canopy of trees. The latter was the first made to shrink automatically followed by the deterioration of the former. The heat pierces the skin now like small needles extracting the drops of sweat. Earlier it was as if the winter's "meethi dhoop" endowed Bangalore throughout the year. But now, its a tiring thought of being outside the shelters of ones home - during the day because of heat and during the evening because of traffic.
How have we reached here? Was it really the economy boom in Bangalore which has now become a curse for the residents? Why have we let the situation out of our hands - why have the value of time suddenly become minuscule with those endless long hours in traffic? Today, just to travel to airport and back it takes half a day! - Half a day on the road and rest half with a headache having driven nearly a hundred kilometers in the senseless traffic on a brutally sunny day. Traffic - adding years to our age - straining eyes, crinkled foreheads and exasperated souls!
So this is today. What about tomorrow? What about the years to follow? May be I will be totally out of love of Bangalore by then. After all love doesn't last forever - not even with a city!
Around two decades in Bangalore, I had fallen in love with the weather and also the canopy of trees. The latter was the first made to shrink automatically followed by the deterioration of the former. The heat pierces the skin now like small needles extracting the drops of sweat. Earlier it was as if the winter's "meethi dhoop" endowed Bangalore throughout the year. But now, its a tiring thought of being outside the shelters of ones home - during the day because of heat and during the evening because of traffic.
How have we reached here? Was it really the economy boom in Bangalore which has now become a curse for the residents? Why have we let the situation out of our hands - why have the value of time suddenly become minuscule with those endless long hours in traffic? Today, just to travel to airport and back it takes half a day! - Half a day on the road and rest half with a headache having driven nearly a hundred kilometers in the senseless traffic on a brutally sunny day. Traffic - adding years to our age - straining eyes, crinkled foreheads and exasperated souls!
So this is today. What about tomorrow? What about the years to follow? May be I will be totally out of love of Bangalore by then. After all love doesn't last forever - not even with a city!
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