Have you read Kipling's The Road To Mandalay where Kipling wrote about how, back home in gloomy stuck-up England, he missed Burma's weather and it's easy going life?
I am inspired to write a variant after reading about the incredible Burmese capital, Naypyidaw. Incredible because this is a massive ghost city that has twenty lane highways that are completely empty ! And here we are, sitting in the traffic nightmare that is Bangalore where every street is paved with vehicles. No, the government is no different. The Burmese junta cares little for its people. And Mr Siddaramaiah has exactly the same distaste for Bangaloreans. Why else would he allow the sacrilege that is KR Puram junction where a massive ring road for a city with 10 million people converges into a 1.5 lane road leading to a massive traffic jam?
So the new Road to Mandalay reads.
Ship me somewhere's east of Bangalore, where the worst is like the best here, Where there aren't no KR Puram's and Silk Board Junctions an' a man can drive a car;
For the wide empty roads are callin', an' it's there that I would be
By the new Burmese city lookin' lazy at the sea of streets with no cars on them;
By the way, the weather is more moderate at Naypyidaw than in Bangalore (it is 25 degrees now), the government is no more corrupt than here and there is land available to grab (Infy please take note) and there are no pesky IAS officers committing suicide ( builders and home minister please take note).
So why not move the Bangalore IT industry there ?
I am inspired to write a variant after reading about the incredible Burmese capital, Naypyidaw. Incredible because this is a massive ghost city that has twenty lane highways that are completely empty ! And here we are, sitting in the traffic nightmare that is Bangalore where every street is paved with vehicles. No, the government is no different. The Burmese junta cares little for its people. And Mr Siddaramaiah has exactly the same distaste for Bangaloreans. Why else would he allow the sacrilege that is KR Puram junction where a massive ring road for a city with 10 million people converges into a 1.5 lane road leading to a massive traffic jam?
So the new Road to Mandalay reads.
Ship me somewhere's east of Bangalore, where the worst is like the best here, Where there aren't no KR Puram's and Silk Board Junctions an' a man can drive a car;
For the wide empty roads are callin', an' it's there that I would be
By the new Burmese city lookin' lazy at the sea of streets with no cars on them;
By the way, the weather is more moderate at Naypyidaw than in Bangalore (it is 25 degrees now), the government is no more corrupt than here and there is land available to grab (Infy please take note) and there are no pesky IAS officers committing suicide ( builders and home minister please take note).
So why not move the Bangalore IT industry there ?
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