Saturday, February 14, 2009

Pune-6

It doesn't sound so sweet as the "Chandi chowk" of Delhi for me, but it is for u to decide how it sounds: the "Yerawada" of Pune, my PS station is here. Pune is a small city. unlike Delhi's "bas ishq mohabbat pyaar", i should say Pune stands out for "bus dikkat taar". forget the ishq! gone for the day's celebrations.

we are used to making fun of the A.P's red buses, here you should make double the fun of the buses, as they are smeared red from the inside as well( an achievement only possible because of the round-the-clock-hard-chewing-people using the bus). their efforts wont stop there! unfortunately for them, the roads are too wide and too many to be made red and incidentally that's the "taar" that I mentioned as one of Pune's stand-out features. The local gov. body(Ma-Na-Pa as they call it) seems to spend all its resources on the roads. Looking for some reasons, first that struck is the massive revenue they earn through the pay and park, as almost every road comes with a small portion for the Ma-Na-Pa pay and park and it seems to have encouraged the usage of cars. And now the roads have come in handy as they provide good space for the cars/motor cycles on stand-by waiting for their turn in the petrol-bunks.

An extremely expensive city to say! For a few moments after I came here my view of the city was that it is inexpensive as we saw the meter of the auto seems to show an increment of a meager 10p for every 100mts, only to find later that the "meter measures metres"(100m) rather than paise and after a small ride of 8kms we ended up giving just a few over 150bucks! Then we came to know that the very concept applies wherever it's scope permits and there seems to be scope everywhere. Fearing the zero-bank-balance we had to resort to the cheapest restaurant of all-guess what? It's the Mc.D.. anywhere else u r sure to be ridden of at least 150 bucks. if we were to go for a movie we got to go for a multiplex.No compromise! That I say by experience.that day we were desperate to see the sequel of Raaz on the very first day, we have taken the tickets for the show in Gunjan Talkies(Pune-6) and for us the show ended five minutes after we entered the hall. All for the immovable steel chairs, moving bugs on them and hard chewing sidees who every so often spits...horrified by the happenings around we headed for another theatre far away. And at the Ad-labs or Inox u pay them around 150 base price and films of languages other than marathi attract an additional entertainment tax.
(to be contnued..)

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