Welcome in Bangalore!

My return to India can never be complete unless I step my foot in Bangalore. Though I had come to Bangaloretwo weeks ago, but I didn’t step outside of airport. Now when I am close to having spent one week in Bangalore, I feel that I am back in India.

As winters are never the best time to move to Finland, same way summer is never the good time to come to India or Bangalore. Last time when I was here for few days, I knew from day one that I am going back so I didn’t realise the feeling of getting back to India. But this time things are different. I don’t want to write all those things, lest it might be construed as disdain for one’s own country. Net to net, the shock was all there, cultural, social, political, economical all kind of shocks.

Bangalore has gone through a sea change in last 3 years; it is now hotter, more crowded, more cluttered and more difficult to live. The worse part is that I am a total stranger in this city. This makes living here quite difficult and so my life for time being is reduced to being in office, even on Sunday, right now. Hope things will get better with time, either this way or that way.

I do miss my life in Finland and everything associated with it. But it was me who decided to be back so I have no one to blame. Though things are not happening as I wanted them to be, but when do things happen as planned.