I was having a hectic day at work and was very tired by afternoon. I was sipping coffee when I received this forwarded email and believe me this was the real stress buster for me that day.

Did you ever say that a software engineer or a BPO professional lacks creativity? Then this mail corrects you. Though I don’t know who actually wrote this but I could definitely say that this one comes from the mailbox of an IT/ITES professional, who just thought of a way to pass time when on bench.

Here it goes:

Over these last few years of living in Bangalore, I have slowly grown to like the jams, which this city provides in abundance. These jams do build your patience and character.

Is it a coincidence that India's most patient cricketers, Dravid and Kumble, hail from this city of jams? (Dravid is even nicknamed "Jammy"). Does it tell you something?

Sri Sri Ravishankar...does he get his daily dose of spiritual inspiration while in a jam?? And will I also get a halo after a few more years of this "character building"??

There are, I am sure, thousands of future stars stuck in the Adugodis and Anand Rao circles, who are plotting their moves against future Kramniks... those poor little Kramniks stand no chance. And if you see a professor-like guy prancing around the Palace road jam, you can deduce that a postulate in Physics has just been proved.

A few days back, I had a thought - If we can have reviews of movies, which occupy only a few hours of our life in a month, why not reviews of traffic jams, which takes up significant hours of our day?? So here is my review of some of Bangalore's famous and not-so-famous jams (in no particular order).

But before that, a general comment - As they say, the taste of food in a restaurant is dependent on the ambience; similarly, the way I see jams, cozy inside the office shuttle or public transport, is different from the way the owner of the swank new SUV sees it (by the way, if you are the owner of the swank new SUV, don't run me down).

PS: The reviews are in the subsequent post