Driving or Deathmatch? Watch a battle with death!. Review on Pune

Mr. Maruti owner,

I salute you!

You are a martyr.

You live as if there is no tomorrow.

You have no fear of death.

When all the traffic is flowing towards you you have the nerve / audacity / reckelssness / foolhardiness / idiocy to drive in the MIDDLE LANE and DRIVING AGAINST the whole of all traffic!

I notice that you have given a signal to the traffic that you wish to turn RIGHT eventually.

I like your attitude. Perhaps Dharmaraj too might like your attitude one day.

Meanwhile I pray for the millions who roam the streets of Pune when drivers like you are on rampage.

P.S. : IF YOU MISSED SOMETHING: WATCH THE VIDEO CAREFULLY.

Watch especially the almost ending part when all traffic clears and then you see the reason of the tarfiic jam. A MARUTI COMES WITH STRICT DISCIPLINE WITH TURNING SIGNAL DRIVING CAREFULLY IN THE MIDDLE LANE.... ALL POINTS ABOVE VALID ONLY IF IT WERE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD!!!!!!!!!!

OTHER TWO-WHEELERS DRIVING ON THE WRONG SIDE CAN BE SEEN, BUT SEEM ACTUALLY PARDONABLE IN COMPARISON TO THIS IMBECILE!!

Some specific Pune reviews and tips now follow, after our Maruti encounter has left us unscathed:

I have put up fresh material here, entirely and truly mine, after being recently educated in the ways of the world.

Pune evokes in me the modern and the nostalgic.

The new city boasts of wide roads and chic bungalows, but it is the old city that entices me the most. Welcome to war peth ( stands for Som, Mangal, Budh, Bhavani, Nana, Guru, Shukra, Shani and Ravi - have I missed anything?). All of these are monuments shrouded in Peshwa history - nonthing greater than everyday settlements, but flavoured by stone and mazes of alleyways that breathe of the old days when there used to be wadas and swings and cool stone pathways leading to bazaars.

Now sadly, like the Old Delhi of William Dalrymple, this has crumbled and rebuckled with modern shops, as if to make up for the loss of character that occured with the end of the Peshwas.

While the crowds in Pune hand out at the multiplexes, exploring these alleys frequentled these days only by workmen, shopkeepers and the middle class pushing itself out into the suburbs of Kothrud, an excursion may take many many days to take in this enchanting heady experience.

Many more things to say, but ending the review here currently, and will update it with the thousands of things that are yet unsaid....

Pune