"Blazing Turkey's", "Pigheaded Morons", " Rotten Tadpoles"...no these are not the names of exotic dishes that i am muttering about. Such Exclamations slip out of my mouth when I find myself wet as a result of water being splashed on me by vehicles on the streets of Bangalore. Looks as if they are participating in the Nürburgring Formula One Grand Prix. Wonder what prize they are coveting...an early meeting in Hell with the Satan himself..perhaps?The moment i mention Nürburgring I start to draw up some interesting comparisons between it and Bangalore.
This years Grand Prix at Nürburgring (Gosh, I love to say this word...sounds like it came straight of a Mac Donald's Menu....maybe, it stands for Nordic Burger with Onion Rings) was testament to the reputation of the race track as it stands. Few seconds into the race and you had the racing cars falling head over heels over each other ...no, a wrong analogy...i should have said you have racing cars falling wheels over wheels on each other. One look at the race track and you know why. The sadistic people who designed this must have taken a paper clip and bent it in weird ways and Ta Da, you have a Racing Track.
Nürburgring and Bangalore
1. You can see the picture above. Now tell me you cant see a MG Road(nos 5-6); a Cubbon Road(nos 10-11), an Old Madras Road (nos 12-13), an Airport Road (nos. 14-1). Of course, you have to assume that this was drawn by an amatuer cartographer with no idea of scale.
2. The weather. With the Ferrari's and the Maclaren's having their own weather stations at Nürburgring, they were'nt able to predict the rains in this years race. They started off with dry tyres and immediately after the mishap had to change to the wet tyres. It poured heavily for a few minutes and then went as soon as it came. Bangalore rains - similar?
a. Unpredictable - it always pour when you dont have an umbrella.
b. Rains for a few minutes and then disappears like its only goal was to water the Garden City
Its end of august and its pouring cats and dogs here. And every evening! It started way back in June. And I heard it rains till November . I remember learning in school (whenever I used to take a break from throwing paper planes or tapping the head of a person sitting in front of me) that the Monsoon season in India lasts for four months. Thats how I have been experiencing it for the last 20 odd years. Of course I remember reading something like the south-west monsoon winds give rain to the western part of India and goes north and the North east monsoon winds give rains to the Eastern part of India. What I did not know nor forsee was that Bangalore tightly sits in the path of both these windy messengers.
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3. Nürburgring hosts one of the worlds largest Rock festivals. Bangalore, well, just hosts few (much closer to Miniscule) rock concerts. Well one of the largest in India, surely!
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Well, now that I think of it not much to compare between Nürburgring and Bangalore. Why did I start this post then?...Nürburgring, Nürburgring, Nürburgring (Boy, I love that word)
