Mittal, Amit - Bangalore

Footpath is for pedestrians and not for riding bikes

nospam@example.com (Amit Mittal) — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:11:07 +0530

I was waiting on the Sony World traffic signal in Koramangala while driving down to my home from gym, when I saw 3-4 cops standing on the left side. They were not catching the bike riders without helmets rather they were catching the riders who were riding on the footpath

Since I relocated to Bangalore, I noticed that it is very common practice followed by youngsters to ride bike on footpaths to avoid little bit of traffic. It is very annoying as it can put pedestrians life in danger which includes kids, old age and disabled. I always used to think that why traffic cops are not doing anything to punish such people?

And here we are! The cops were catching such psychopaths and giving them tickets. I just hope that at least some of the amount will go in the govt. fund and not 100% of it go in those cops' pockets

I do understand that young blood enjoys breaking rules and think that it is very cool to do that but why to do such fun by putting others' life in danger. Why don't they do at their own life's risk? That's real fun!

What is more importnat - Society or religion?

nospam@example.com (Amit Mittal) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:32:00 +0530

There is a plot near to CCD, CMH Road in Indiranagar. I am watching from last one year or so that the owner tried everything to make sure people don't dump waste in front of that. He tried writing about the people involved in dumping, requesting them for not doing and threatening them for taking legal action but nothing worked.

Today, I noticed that he painted the wall of the plot and cemented pictures of gods on that. Do you think it will work? I think so. I am dieing to see the result of this action.

The owner must have been advised by some politician friend for sure who would have told him how to use religion for our purposes. But I have a question to do research, do we really worship the God and religion we believe in or it is just because of fear and show-off?

If I am not wrong, every religion says humanity is above everything and one can please the God by serving the humanity. But do we really do that? We go to temples/churches/mosques or any place to pray regularly but as soon as we come out of the sacred place, we forget everything.

I think, it is the time to do the introspection about ourselves. How many times do we disrespect, embarrass or hate the creativity of same natural power whom we worship. Don't you think that we need to be more practical (not sure if this is the correct word ) in this sense and try to be ourselves.

If we really believe in Him and His creation then by no means we can do such nasty things in our life. Yes, we can have people with whom our thoughts/actions/believes don't resonate but I guess there is always a better way.

I hope, you will think about it at least for a minute and will look around.

Take care...

Burka ban in Karnataka

nospam@example.com (Amit Mittal) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:01:53 +0530

Recently there was a news that burqas are going to be banned inside classrooms of Karnataka colleges. This decision is another ridiculous in the list of funny decisions heard in Bangalore.

We are living in a secular country where everyone has the right to follow any religion s/he wishes. How can someone put restrictions on anybody when it comes to her/his religion. It is an attack on one's personal rights, individual rights and fundamental rights provided by the Indian Constitution.

Why don't govt. concentrate on real issues in the country rather than creating such lame issues and disturbing the peace here? I guess, there are plenty of works to do in every city of this country but nobody wants to put their hands in the dust because they don't have any real intentions to make this country a better place. It is all political game and I pity on those individuals (specially from so-called educated class) who get provoked by such decisions and announcements.

We need to be calm and ignore such activities.