This Navaratri, especially this weekend, a few hundred thousand (my guess is half a million) young and middle-aged Bangaloreans including all of my family have travelled out to near and far places for the long weekend or festival season or to be with their families.
Last night some 50000 people took buses in a mad chaos of Volvo's from Shantinagar stand. See the picture I clicked.
Bangalore welcomes educated people from all over with nice jobs, fine weather and all sorts of fun. Hundreds of colleges in Karnataka provide technical education for a hefty fee. Result: a huge population of people who are in Bangalore and nearby only to earn and make a career. Their families and interests pull them away for holidays.
Thousands of taxis and autos ply these folks to bus stands and railway stations all the time. Apart from the thousands of cars running shuttle commute trips round the clock for outsourcing hubs.
You can call this the new economy. I call this the mad rush called Bangalore.
