Hosur road blocked due to rasta roko

srishiva · 17th December 2009, 22:03

People's way of venting out frustration I guess.
By the way what is it with using the term 'locals'. Just to say we are different from them?

Nitin · 17th December 2009, 22:08

Isn't there any other better way to express anger/resentment regarding a situation? Trust Indians to cause further problems, and affect the lives of thousands of commuters!

benbsb29 · 17th December 2009, 22:48

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Originally Posted by Fordy

Ben, Where do you stay? I stay in Maratha Halli right in front of Purva Apts, we can catch up and say hello if you stay nearby sometime.

We can surely meet up. I stay near Home Town.

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Originally Posted by akas_chauhan

You replied at 7:29PM saying your wife reached at 7:35. Just joking.

Good catch, Akas. Actually i'd talked to her on the phone, and updated the time taking into account the time it would take for her bus to arrive at her stop.

She was close to the JP Morgan campus then.

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Originally Posted by srishiva

People's way of venting out frustration I guess.
By the way what is it with using the term 'locals'. Just to say we are different from them?

I guess it was a general reference to the people staying around the area in question, who were responsible for the agitation.

NetfreakBombay · 17th December 2009, 22:51

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Originally Posted by Nitin

Isn't there any other better way to express anger/resentment regarding a situation? Trust Indians to cause further problems, and affect the lives of thousands of commuters!

It is not just frustration. This it to "get things done".

As per news, Police did not even register an FIR. I bet they would be pressured into working on this case now.

prince_pervez · 18th December 2009, 09:31

Happened last year too. On hosur road but near Dairy circle. There was a problem with the computer of the rationing dept. And was not fixed since 2 days. And there was just 1 day remaning. Smelling a rat the affected people held up traffic which choked major arteries of south Bangalore. The authorities came and after soothing them down we could see the traffic move. The computer was required for snapping photos of the ones queing up for rationing their needs. So I guess, this works, and hence they do it. If this is the way to get noticed and get demands heard then people are going to do it. Sadly of course.

ajmat · 18th December 2009, 11:09

Not a word of this in the newspapers today

svsantosh · 18th December 2009, 11:20

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Originally Posted by ajmat

Not a word of this in the newspapers today

Cant believe a entire strech of NH7, and a prominent industrial/IT hub was BLOCKED for a good 2 hours (during evening rush hour) and not even a Local paper covered it.

No offense to Mumbai guys (I was born there and most of relatives are there) - but 4-5 cars bang up and 1-2 dead on a bridge is enough to get national coverage of PRINT & TV media!!!

Hundreds die across in road accidents in India every day!! Why arent those same TV channels bothered?

Why the step motherly treatment?

prince_pervez · 18th December 2009, 11:23

^^ Guess what the scene I narrated post #20 too did not get the coverage. Maybe the local TV news did. Did you guys check that ?

Mr_Bean · 18th December 2009, 11:34

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Originally Posted by svsantosh

Cant believe a entire strech of NH7, and a prominent industrial/IT hub was BLOCKED for a good 2 hours (during evening rush hour) and not even a Local paper covered it.

No offense to Mumbai guys (I was born there and most of relatives are there) - but 4-5 cars bang up and 1-2 dead on a bridge is enough to get national coverage of PRINT & TV media!!!

Hundreds die across in road accidents in India every day!! Why arent those same TV channels bothered?

Why the step motherly treatment?

I do remember star news was reporting live for "Commissioner ka Kutta" is missing

and after sometime breaking news for the same.

To get mileage, one of the news channels I guess " headlines today" had a slot discussing " Is southern part not getting enough of coverage, blah blah when it comes to reporting issues"..

rohan_iitr · 18th December 2009, 12:05

The mango-man (aam-aadmi) does not care about thousands of IT nerds caught in a traffic jam for a couple of hours. (He may even derive a sadistic pleasure out of their misery)

Newspapers and TV channels are more interested in covering masala news for their intended audience (the mango-man).

Rohan,
Bangalore

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srishiva Senior - BHPian Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Bengaluru Posts: 4,375 Thanked: 2,256 Times	People's way of venting out frustration I guess. By the way what is it with using the term 'locals'. Just to say we are different from them?
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Nitin Senior - BHPian Join Date: May 2006 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 3,294 Thanked: 20 Times View My Garage	Isn't there any other better way to express anger/resentment regarding a situation? Trust Indians to cause further problems, and affect the lives of thousands of commuters!
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ajmat Team-BHP Support Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Bangalore Posts: 14,858 Thanked: 27,925 Times View My Garage	Not a word of this in the newspapers today
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prince_pervez Senior - BHPian Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Redwood shores, CA, USA Posts: 4,210 Thanked: 51 Times View My Garage	^^ Guess what the scene I narrated post #20 too did not get the coverage. Maybe the local TV news did. Did you guys check that ?
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rohan_iitr Senior - BHPian Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Bangalore Posts: 1,129 Thanked: 819 Times	The mango-man (aam-aadmi) does not care about thousands of IT nerds caught in a traffic jam for a couple of hours. (He may even derive a sadistic pleasure out of their misery) Newspapers and TV channels are more interested in covering masala news for their intended audience (the mango-man). Rohan, Bangalore
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18th December 2009, 09:31	#20
prince_pervez Senior - BHPian Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Redwood shores, CA, USA Posts: 4,210 Thanked: 51 Times View My Garage	Happened last year too. On hosur road but near Dairy circle. There was a problem with the computer of the rationing dept. And was not fixed since 2 days. And there was just 1 day remaning. Smelling a rat the affected people held up traffic which choked major arteries of south Bangalore. The authorities came and after soothing them down we could see the traffic move. The computer was required for snapping photos of the ones queing up for rationing their needs. So I guess, this works, and hence they do it. If this is the way to get noticed and get demands heard then people are going to do it. Sadly of course.
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