Supply & Demand

 

India is on a race to be the most populated country in this world. Its literally an Abundance …err.. of people though. Most HR people will only be more than happy to see more heads around

Last week i had to take a print of some documentation and since my home printer wasn't working, had to get the prints from a cyber cafe. The dingy little place and its smaller cubicles was least to say crowded. Many youngsters waiting for their turn… privacy was lost for some and i could see a lady jeering at a person standing beside her. The best thing i liked about this cafe was that, all their PC’s were so outdated by looks, but the Operating System was the latest Windows 7. The monitor was a 14’ CRT … 100% of zoom on the screen made the fonts look huge size on them. I finally managed to get my hand on a PC after about half hour wait, my prints were fired onto a printer that was connected to the WLAN (!), the printer was a HP Laserjet. Print per copy was charged only at Rs 3

As i was walking out of the shop, i was thinking to myself the way population has outstripped supply in this great country of ours ‘India’. A railway station, bus stand, auto / taxi stand.. .its all filled with people. Railway stations even in a cosmo city like Bangalore are far short of space for the crowds that it was meant to operate with. A city bus is something that you cant step into during peak hours… well you may think the Volvo buses that are operated on premium by the bus corporation has space… no longer are they spacious, regardless of the premium fare collected on them

The cyber cafe when it started was meant for those who knew computers only… now there is hardly any grown-up person who doesn't know computers, so you will find this place always crowded. That's the way India has grown… we have absolutely lost our handle on the resources that need to be to support such a large population

Will a we 2 ours 2 revival help ! ?

eeeks… we missed him

RTO’s across the country should get the aspiring drivers to pass the driving test on the roads of Secunderabad. Either he will clear it and be an excellent driver or that would be the end of his aspiration

Its heart to mouth situation, while you are in an auto, taxi or any vehicle which is moving on these roads. Maddening to the core, people just turn left or right without bothering if there is a vehicle at their backs. Traffic signals for such a huge city is literally non existent unless otherwise its some important junction. For those that are there, people hardly care to stand till the laal bathi becomes hara bathi… thats Red to Green !

On our journey back to Kacheguda railway station from the Secunderabad clock tower area, our auto driver literally was scraping everyone on the road, apparently the people there seems to have got used to this and they don't care much

While on our way back from RR Dist into Secunderabad on the highway a carrier Auto rickshaw went zooop from the left of our Yellow taxi to the right side and at a fast pace… it knocked our car to the right, which hit the median and came to the left side, while we screamed inside the driver realised that a bolt struck him and little did he realise that it wasn't the Truck at our back instead the drunk fella who was driving the carrier. Our car was halted and found to our dismay that the front bumpers had fallen off !!!! Something that i was left wondering here is that there was no immediate fisticuffs … instead it went to talking and shouting a quick comparison to Bangalore, well the Auto fellow would've been bleeding by then !

All in all… while you are in Rome be a Roman and when you are in Secunderabad or Hyderabad be someone like them !