atul jha

Chennai is known for there fucked up/creepy autowalas. They will literally rob you if they realize you are not local. Even they act like morons with locals.

So like every weekday i was out from my office around 8.30 pm waiting for auto and i was welcomed by an autowala. So my rule is just tell them 100 RS and where you want to go. This guy spoke in fluent English and after few minutes started speaking in Hindi. I was totally shocked as it was first time in 2 yrs i found an autowala speaking in fluent Hindi. My first question to him “Bhaiya do you watch lots of Hindi movie? Your hindi is way better than ordinary folks in Chennai. His response was he knows 7 other languages 🙂

We kept on talking and he told me how he spent most of his life previously in Gulf and then Maldives. He learnt lot other languages while work tenure abroad.

Lastly he said money is not everything family/parents matters as well and hence after 9 years staying abroad i returned back.

For first time in 2 yrs stay here in Chennai i felt great about autowalas 🙂

I was in Bangalore last week for OpenStack Day. I spent my Sunday meeting Bhavi and Shastry. It was great meeting them both. Also not to mention i had awesome lunch at Bhavi`s house cooked by her mom. A traditional kannada food i would assume, 3-4 varieties of rice and it was delicious. I should have taken some photographs of it but i was busy eating. 🙂

 And this is what i saw on Bhav`s door step. I liked it and was worth a click. 😀

Then later in the evening Shastry arrived and we had hot coffee and then we started for evening trip around Bangalore. Since we were in Old Bangalore, shastry suggested we should see/roam in some park. I don`t remember the name of that park but it was nice the other thing was on stones people curved there name with whom they love and all. 🙂

Then we headed to Bull Temple, although both were too lazy to take off our shoes so we preferred staying out and clicking some pics and reading about the history of the temple.

Lastly once we were out we tried some photography skill of ours and took this snap, i just loved the color of sky that particular moment.

Then we went to a place called Food Street with so many shops catering all variety of food, it was awesome. It gave me a feeling am in Chandni Chok, Delhi. But later on we decided we will go to another road side shop in nearby area & yes i tried fried idly for first time, it was great. We had dosa/idly and then Shastry dropped me to bus stop. We have decided next trip we will continue our food trail and visit some other places. The day was full of variety of food, i loved it. 😀