Comments on: World Views

By: manuscrypts

manuscrypts — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:54:16 +0000

Abhishek: i can imagine.. its also a probability that many of the residents in those areas will look at the malls and IT parks with awe

By: manuscrypts

manuscrypts — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:51:19 +0000

gauri: huduga is just kannada for ‘boy’.. you could love a city – in fact, most of us love Bangalore.. but for now, thats limited to the part we live in… which is why to me, there’s a difference between that and being able to live and work in a city that you’ve grown up in..

Maan: unfortunately so

By: manuscrypts

manuscrypts — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:47:09 +0000

austere: exactly

balu: missed it and same here on the landmarks.. (read my reply to shefaly)

By: manuscrypts

manuscrypts — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:44:33 +0000

Kunal: true..every city has multiple worlds…

Shefaly: quite ambivalent on that.. on one hand, i’m not sure whether enough time has passed for the new set (like me) to have completely bonded with the city..on the other hand, with the kind of lifestyles we lead now, I wonder whether we will have the time, or make the effort..

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:36:50 +0000

You know, as a photographer my favorite areas in a city are of the latter type. Like Sultan Bazar or Koti in Hyderabad, T Nagar in Chennai or Aminabad in Lucknow

They have got so much going on, so much colors… so much life!

By: Maan

Maan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:06:46 +0000

Sometimes its easily forgotten that there is a world outside the IT Park..

By: gauri

gauri — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:00:41 +0000

//I can imagine the young local huduga who is now a techie and handles both worlds with ease.//

Much as I’m not sure what a huduga is, it doesn’t have to be just him. You love a city enough, you’ll know it’s every corner, every kabab/chai stand and 24hr coffee shop in hep restaurants. The latter is once you start earning, of course. Pune used to be like that at least till about a decade ago – everyone hangs out everywhere. Well, let’s say a good chunk hangs out everywhere. If the two worlds have become mutually exclusive, it is indeed sad.

I do see what you’re saying, though – people in one world could well enjoy both worlds, but sadly, not necessarily the other way round.

-g

By: | Balu |

| Balu | — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:02:22 +0000

Hey.. Gandhi Bazar has a CCD =P I was a loyal customer there once, even though they never used to give us anything we wanted. They never had ice =(
I agree with Shefaly. I visited most of the real landmarks of the city like Lalbagh, science museum among many others, when I came hear as a tourist (from school). Since I settled started working here, I haven’t been to any of these places =(

By: austere

austere — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:02:35 +0000

Lovely.

True everywhere.

By: Shefaly

Shefaly — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:58:26 +0000

Dare I say it that there are few hudugas or hudugis who experience both worlds?

The old Bangalore seems to have been forgotten by the shiny new world that confines itself to the Ring Road for living, working and entertaining themselves. Many people I know, who have lived in Bangalore for 8-10 years or longer, have never been to Lal Bagh or know that Bangalore has a science museum!

Doesn’t bode well for a city to be so disparate and divided.