The Rolex of Mosque road!

                Mosque road, Frazer town: a road buzzing with traffic under the cool canopy of huge trees that stand like lined up soldiers. Trees that were planted decades ago, doing what they were meant to – provide shade & a good cool place for people to rest & walk. On a Friday, this road sees more human traffic than vehicles & during the month of Ramzan a whole lot more human souls. In the evening, On the last Friday of the month of Ramzan – it reaches the pinnacle, more heads than 10 times the traffic.

                With thousands of souls craving to break their fast after the prayers, the street is a galore of food. It’s a paradise for meat lovers and for the others it’s a feast for the eyes just to see, in such abundance, people diving into their plates & chewing off bits from the bones, the food varieties, colors & lights. While people are relishing on the chickens, lambs, fish, prawns etc in the never ending street side food stalls, camps and restaurants, there sits a silent tripper playing with people's time: Rolex.

This Rolex, unlike the watch, doesn't remind you of time but makes you lose track of it completely! The thick, white & green colored Avocado milkshake served at a silent restaurant ‘Savory’ is aptly named Rolex (or at least, I was introduced to it by that name). Its thick milk beautifully blended with Avocado is carefully sweetened & pleasantly chilled that makes you dive into a new high and lose track of time. Though made with milk it doesn’t boast of a luxury creamy flavor making it a welcome choice even for milk haters. Generally, the avocado has a blunt nose cutting cross taste which makes it uninteresting. But, At Savory they have ensured to blend it carefully without making it an overdose of the avocado flavor yet keeping the tinge to hit the tongue. This impeccable combo is run thru a slice of sweetening & is chilled, making it Absolutely trippy!

It’s undoubtedly a must try, if you are in Mosque road. Even if you are a milk hater.

Tags : Rolex, Mosque Road, Frazer Town, Bangalore, Avocado MilkShake, Avocado Smoothie, Must try in Bangalore.

Kannada Gothilva?

         You might have read in the newspapers yesterday about the Volvo bus ride that led to jail for a lady! Apparently the tussle started when neither the passenger nor the conductor had the right change & that ended up ugly.

                One point of view, for a solution to this could be to tackle the ‘Currency Change’ problem either by using credit cards, sufficient coins etc. But is that all? Similar issues occur every day & outside of the Volvo buses too. What could solve all those problems? Lets first take another look at what happened in that bus. After the initial ‘No Change’ – ‘No Change’ talk, apparently the conductor asked her to get off at the next stop. Well, that’s off topic for out context here. More important is what happened next. He is said to have spoken something in Kannada (to himself? To other passengers?), which agitated the lady & slapped him thinking he was abusing her in Kannada. 

The Bus Conductor who got slapped

                      Did he? May be, May be not, but that’s secondary. First things first, slapping / physically abusing someone if you THINK he cursed you – a No No.

                Secondly, let’s say if he did curse, whose fault is it? Whose fault is it for not knowing if he did curse or not? And if he did, what did he say? This doesn’t just apply for that conductor alone, for all the many many service segment workers in the city, be it bus conductors, auto drivers, shop keepers etc. Just because they spoke in Kannada, is it fair to assume they abused you? If you take pride in saying “I have been in Bangalore for 5 years & the only line I know is ‘Kannada Gothilla’” then don’t you think you should take the same pride in knowing that someone is possibly abusing you in a language you haven’t learnt? Or do you expect everyone to learn & know the languages you know? Please understand that if they could speak as good English as you do, they probably wouldn’t have been bus conductors or auto drivers or tiny shop vendors. Do remember they are still much better behaved than many others in the country who might speak ‘YOUR’ language. So stop cribbing that people around you don’t speak English or Hindi & instead make an effort to learn Kannada or take what comes your way : be it abuses or casual talk which would just sound gibberish to you anyway.

                And if you are thinking of blaming that no one taught you or gave an opportunity I am not going to buy that. If you were any willing at all, you would have by now been on the links below which are the top search results if you look for ‘learn Kannada’.

http://www.kannadabaruthe.com/

https://www.bangaloreone.gov.in/public/learnkannada.aspx

http://www.languageshome.com/English-Kannada.htm

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/kannada/

Nevertheless it isn’t too late yet. These links are awesome & makes learning super easy, the only thing it needs is a will :)