How about this entry for "Separated at birth?" Prannoy Roy and Saddam Hussein:



How about this one:

How to pick a pocket: live demonstration.

The board on the truck reads "Swayamvara"

Yes, you heard me right. It's "Swayamvara". Why on earth is a truck named Swayamvara? Because it belongs to a driving school by the same name. Weird world, this.

PS: Swayamvara, in ancient India, was a practice of choosing a life partner, among a list of suitors by a girl of marriageable age. It had nothing to do with driving schools.

If you bring "Ve-chi-cals" to this "choultery", this is where you should park them.

All the voice and data that reaches your home on phone lines is transported on vast, secure, high quality optic fibre network that runs under the ground throughout the city. However, these optic fibres don't like being underground all the time. Sometimes they just come out in the open and hang out in the air this way.

Sighted at the Sony World junction in Koramangala.

Latest trend in eyewear!

Auto and taxi drivers seem to have the worst love lives. They normally sport a very pessimistic message about love at the back of their vehicles.

This is one of them. I am sure there are better ones.

You have always been told to "Keep left" on the road (along with "Go Slow" and "Sound Horn"). Did you ever wish there was more choice in this regard?

You have more choice now. This place near Jayadeva Flyover on Bannerghatta road asks you to "Keep left/right" I wonder, "As against?" Looks like the motto of traffic police is "It is not important whether you keep left or right, all that matters is you _keep_".

This milestone clearly says it is 5Kms. But where to?

On our recent road trip to Savanadurga, Manchinabele and Dodda Alada Mara, we found a number of such milestones. They give a creepy, suspicious feeling to the commuters.

Isn't that a nice little girl right there?

Heh, no. That's my sister's 1.5 year old BOY! Amazing cross-dressing, right?

Some ice-creams can be quite fussy. They can be eaten only on Sunday.

I found this near my home.

This is the BMTC's special bus that visits a number of hospitals in Bangalore.



Hmm... with the hospitals in the list being in conditions they are in, patients may need to visit all the hospitals in the list in a row in the hope of getting treatment. I am happy to see that the last stop for this bus is not Harischandra Ghat!

Recent monsoon downpour has left the Sports Authority of India building completely drowned. It probably shows that SAI is in 'deep waters':
Oh, never mind. It is the Sports Authority of India Water Sports Centre at Alappuzha, Kerala :-)

Essential ingredients of a traditional South Indian lunch:

Sambar, rasam and Punjabi Pulao. This happens very often at my office cafeteria. It is common to see Bisi Bele Bath in North Indian lunch too!

The secret to having a nice, relaxing sleep is

to have a soft, warm bed that slowly moves around in a sunny green lawn!

First of all, those of you who know where these pictures have been taken, please keep quiet!

Assume a building has three elevators. They can be intelligently designed to service the various floors of the building in this fashion:
This one stops at even numbered floors only.

This one only serves odd numbered floors. So far so good.

The third, obviously, serves All floors only!! Heh heh, we could teach some English to those Firangs :-)

Mico Layout Traffic Police 'pleading' citizens to follow lane discipline.We hear from India's ancient stories (not sure which) that there are 4 stages in negotiation. 'Saama' or placation (I request you to do it), 'Daana' or presentation, (If you do this, I will give you that), 'Bheda' or partition, (See, everyone else is doing it. Why not you?) and 'Danda' or persecution. (Do this, or else!) I am not sure what stage did Mico Layout traffic police started off with, but now they seem to be at 'Bheda' stage. The comparison they are making is not flattering to us humans! With the traffic condition being what it is on BTM ring road, I sometimes with I was indeed an ant.

Some more high quality Kannada, this time on an auto.

Is that the desi version of "leaning tower of Pisa"? Almost. Except that this is a dangerously leaning killer truck on Bangalore's roads. A large population of these leaning wonders are made up by crowded BMTC buses. I will replace this picture with a better one some day.

Here is somebody who _really_ knows his Kannada very well. This board is right across the road from the Suburban bus terminal in Mysore. I figured that I don't even know how to read "taxi" in Kannada.

You better be careful while tailgating this car.


If he can 'break' power, wonder what he can do to your car and your bones.

What's this blog about?

Hmm... another blog. What is this going to contain?

I think the world is filled with funny things, if you have the eye for it. One of the things that always amuses me is Indians' English. It becomes funnier when billboards/boards of commercial establishments are put out in English. When people want a board or banner written in English, all the expert advice they are going to depend on for grammar and spelling is the person who draws the board. What is even more funny is that this is not limited to English alone. It is very common to see boards with bad grammar/spelling in local languages. I find these things funny, so such things are definitely going to appear on this website. Anything else that I find strange/funny will also make it to this blog.

Let's see how far this goes.