Bengaluru

Ok, barring the fact that the last time I came here there was a lot of fun to be had with a rather chilled out lady who umm.. enjoyed having her way with me... I've got to say Bengaluru holds a lot of appeal as a city - sometimes more than Mumbai.

1. The young bits of the city and the old bits of the city are kind of all together, not like Mumbai where all the nice bits are south of churchgate, but all the fun bits are Bandra, Juhu and beyond.
   
2. Very couply, and I don't get a sense there's any kind of 'morality police' action here.
   
3. Wi-fi everywhere (yay!).
4. People will look at you and try to speak to you in the language they guess you want to converse in. (With me some guess English, some guess Hindi, and no one is surprised when I reply in the language they didn't chose).
5. Everytime you get into an Auto both of you are embarking on a new adventure of discovery to find out where this particular address is.
   
6. The auto guys phone rings more than mine.
7. The auto guy pulls over to talk, politely asking me to wait one minute. Clearly, his time is more valuable. Ok, that's a reason not to like this place, but he was polite, and that was very cocky of him.
8. The auto guy shares your fascination and elation when you finally arrive at your destination.
   
9. It has a cute little parliament, facing a cute little high court, with lots of cute gardens. Almost looks like lego land that bit.
   
10. More coffee places per square mile than most place I know.
    
11. People seem - happier? more chilled? less hassled.
12. Impatience is non-existent.
13. General politeness is very existent.
    
14. They have an Indian Coffee Home (which beats all the million cafe's they have).
15. Bengaluru makes you imagine that it could be the capital of Dravidia, the successionist country comprised of Goa, Karnataka, Andhra, Tamil Nadu, Kerela and Pondichery. Ok, you know what, I've driven around Maharashtra, so we can add them too.
16. Everything here wants to get online, including the Karnataka State Transport Bus company that now does e-bookings.

Pretty cool.