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A Normal Day in Bengaluru
A cute encounter in messy traffic
I am one of the lucky ones in a batch where remote work continued even after people returned to either a full work-from-office or a hybrid setup. Been shifting one area to another within Bangalore finding the perfect home for to live and now been situated a bit away from office.
Our office calls up the team whenever the US counterparts visit us in Bengaluru, and that's when I get to actually see the outer side of Bengaluru. We all know the meme: “Bengaluru weather is so perfect”, but forget the rest. So I came to realise this so-called high-tech city has the most unplanned roads and traffic.
Recently, when I had to show up to the office, I booked an auto after multiple cancellations from auto annas. While travelling through the bad roads, between the pools of mud or a road in mud, whatever you wish to call it, I saw a couple on a bike, which made me forget about the messy road in front.
A husband moving or struggling with a bike in a pool of mud, a wife with a carrier of lunch behind and in between is a boy kid squashed between their parents in a school uniform. He was in a deep sleep, with his tiny eyes opening whenever his dad had to bump over a puddle.
