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Mangalore Bus Drivers and their cold blooded murders

I have been living this beautiful city called Mangalore for past about 5 years....

In the past five years so many things have changed in Mangalore.... In 2008 literally I will not get anything to eat after 9... rather they were  no budget food joints where i can have my dinner... but now i find a lot of places which i might have missed those days.....

Shops used to close by 8:00/8:30 & the Bharat mall had changed it i think. Big Bazaar used to be open till 9. Then slowly things started changing. I had got my bike by those days and i used to enjoy the company of my colleagues by checking out all food joints.

Though there are so many changes, one thing I haven't found any change is the Buses. 

Board a local bus and never expect a ticket to be issued, but keep the change for the conductor. One tip i got for traveling in the bus was never to keep your hands full. Always you have to hold on to some thing else expect yourselves to be thrown to the floor when the driver applies or rather stands on the brake petals every second minute... 

Literally these guys keep elderly people away from the roads and they also scare any one with their road sense. (if at all if they have any sense). I can remember a day when i was traveling with a colleague we had got struck in middle of bridge and a bus came on the wrong side of the road and stopped millimeters away with a huge braking noise. We were shocked to do anything and when i regained the senses I found the bus driver abusing us for blocking him (!) and taking moving. We did not speak word till we reached home. From that i day i seriously feel that its my second life that i am leading now.

Wish there is a change and these bus drivers learn to drive. I personally feel the bus drivers whenever they cause a accident should be booked under attempt to murder and not driving violations.

But the powerful bus lobby will manage. They are so powerful that they are able to make the train reach Mangalore to Bangalore in 12 hrs whereas buses take only 7 to 9 hrs.

Wish Asra Garg and U Sagayam were in Karnataka.




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Location: Mangalore, Karnataka, India

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