Festive Season
The festive season is back! Its time for celebration, fun, get-togethers and most importantly, (yummy) FOOD!! The food is the best thing I like about festivals. Especially Ganesh Chaturthi when mom prepares forty two varieties of dishes... The preparation starts at least a week before the D-Day and the whole house is filled with the aroma of food.
The slew of new dresses which one gets to wear is a close second. For the three days for which the festival lasts we get to new dresses.
As expected yesterday too was a busy day. Mom and I went buying stuff for today- fruits, flowers, food stuff, stuff for decoration etc. It felt really good to be back on my good old kinetic honda. There was this crippled and helpless feeling back in Kolkata when I did not have my own vehicle to move around. It is really different in Kolkata where people do not have their own two wheeler. They start late and start with cars. Motorbikes are not in large numbers and guys start riding only at 19-20. It strikes me really dull since back home, we start riding when we are when we are 15-16 years old. I think it si really sad to depend on somebody else for your tarnsport. There are cabs but you need to shell out a lot of money. Autos in Kolkata are like buses in Bangalore- they follow only fixed routes. They are shared and are thus quite cheap (you need to pay only 3-4 rupees to traverse a distance which takes at least 15-20 rupees by auto in Bangalore.) Yet it is inconvenient since you can't go to the exact spot you want to reach. You need to walk if the auto sto is far off from your destination. Don't ask me about public bus transport where you have rusted, cramped and small matchboxes moving all around the city at snail's pace emitting jet-black smoke right on your face. It is more than I can tell you.The metro system is the only bright side of the story. It is extremely fast and efficient but unfortunately does not cover the entire city. It sticks to just one route through the middle of Kolkata and it is useless for people (like me) who don't come within that route. Thus, without a two-wheeler (esp when you are used to one back home) you feel literally crippled esp when you have to travel short distances. That way, Bangalore is any day better.
Breakfast is ready. Which means I am off for now...
The slew of new dresses which one gets to wear is a close second. For the three days for which the festival lasts we get to new dresses.
As expected yesterday too was a busy day. Mom and I went buying stuff for today- fruits, flowers, food stuff, stuff for decoration etc. It felt really good to be back on my good old kinetic honda. There was this crippled and helpless feeling back in Kolkata when I did not have my own vehicle to move around. It is really different in Kolkata where people do not have their own two wheeler. They start late and start with cars. Motorbikes are not in large numbers and guys start riding only at 19-20. It strikes me really dull since back home, we start riding when we are when we are 15-16 years old. I think it si really sad to depend on somebody else for your tarnsport. There are cabs but you need to shell out a lot of money. Autos in Kolkata are like buses in Bangalore- they follow only fixed routes. They are shared and are thus quite cheap (you need to pay only 3-4 rupees to traverse a distance which takes at least 15-20 rupees by auto in Bangalore.) Yet it is inconvenient since you can't go to the exact spot you want to reach. You need to walk if the auto sto is far off from your destination. Don't ask me about public bus transport where you have rusted, cramped and small matchboxes moving all around the city at snail's pace emitting jet-black smoke right on your face. It is more than I can tell you.The metro system is the only bright side of the story. It is extremely fast and efficient but unfortunately does not cover the entire city. It sticks to just one route through the middle of Kolkata and it is useless for people (like me) who don't come within that route. Thus, without a two-wheeler (esp when you are used to one back home) you feel literally crippled esp when you have to travel short distances. That way, Bangalore is any day better.
Breakfast is ready. Which means I am off for now...
posted by Krits at 9/17/2004 10:04:00 am
2 Comments:
Why do your posts always end with somebody calling you for food?
had meant 2 put this 1 in n never did earlier.... u make me miss my SCOOTY!! and kinetic honda at tht!!!! i kno just how u feel i LOOOOOOOOOOOVE my darling steed n MISS IT LIKE HELL HERE!!
- Anwesha
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