Wednesday, 13 February 2008

Indifferent winter upsets Bangalore's cold-cream merchants


My Mumbai friends tell me the city is shivering presently and the temperature even hit the 4 degrees mark last week.

Sitting in an unusually hot Bangalore, which received a cold shoulder from the winter goddess this season, I start thinking about global warming.

The symptoms of utmost cold, like shivering, were alien to this city this year.

Still, some of my colleagues wear sweaters to office, and I admire their optimism.

They must be hoping against hope that the cold wave would hit them any time!

It was last winter that I migrated to Bangalore from Mumbai and I still remember my office cabby finding it difficult to navigate the cab in the thick fumes of snow at 1 am.

Also, last year, I helplessly watched my wife splurging on creams and allergy medicines. Dry skin, you know?

But this year, no such difficulties.

Bangalore is no more the techy's Ooty I guess.

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