Rohan\’s Blog

Summers at Riot-stricken Bangalore

Hi again.. what am I doing these days? I'm at Aditi Technologies, Bangalore, doing my summer internship.. Am here since the 3rd of April.. and will be here till the 3rd of June.. About the place i am located – sadashivnagar in bangalore, which ia a little off-beat place.. away from all the fun.. nothing around here.. nothing means literally nothing.. i cant get a proper bread here.. i ask for bread and i get a question "Sweet or Salty?" .. now what do i say? there are a few "Sagars" nearby, so i manage to get something nice on weekends when the office canteeen is closed.. and YA.. there is a pizza hut.. its like got sent it here for my rescue.. but alas- havent yet got a chance to visit it.. its no fun going there alone and having a pizza.. me and abhijit (my batchmate) hardly are together as he is placed in a different facility.. so we do meet at the guesthouse where we play TT and then watch some tv before we go to our beds in our individual rooms!! and ya.. there was one supermarket near to my place but it got all smashed up and empty (people stole everything) on the day when Dr. Rajkumar died..
and this brings me to another story.. he lived in the same lane as my guest house.. just a few houses away.. and that fateful day, we were suddenly told in the afternoon that this particular person has passed away.. so we rather move away from this place.. so me and abhijit happily decide to go to MG road as he had never been there before.. we reach the bus stop.. no busses.. no rickshaws are even waiting.. they are running as if the world is going to end.. and we still do not get the severity of the situation.. i mean .. this great artist has just completed his life.. and he has lived his life fully and wonderfully.. and why do the ricks need to run?? also, my spice phone connection had gone all crazy.. so finally, we decide to walk down.. its about 8 kms to mg.. and we do walk down.. we reach there and fine all shops closed!! so we head back walking again.. and finally we reach our place to find people rioting!! never in my life i had been in such a situation!! all of them suddenly came running towards us and we were confused, we also started running.. but they were too fast.. glass bottles showering from thin air.. people breaking the bus-stand, banners, throwing stones at buildings.. and we were in between them as we just had no place to go.. a person even caught hold of abhijit's collar and said something in kannada.. and abhijit out of sheer fear shouted "Rajkumar ki jay" and miraculously that man let him go!! we finally got into a lane out of the mainstream of rioters!! and waited there till everything was quiet.. and then we reached home… just to be locked in there for the next 2 days!!