Friday, January 12, 2007

Of Alumnis and potholes

The Fergusson College website is boring, but the alumni section used to be pretty snappy. Now they have changed the interface and it does not seem to be all that good. And here is a decent set of images related to Pune.

There is an online petition going on to correct Pune roads. I haven't reproduced the link as every Puneri seems to have signed it already. Also saw the following rules related to the potholes. Reproducing it here as the other link have degenerated into personal attacks.

1. Between any two potholes there is always a road.
2. If matters get worse, one pothole is always smaller than the other.
3. Never follow a car when you drive, follow just one tyre of the car.
4. The depth of a pothole is inversely proportional to its visibility.
5. The probability of a passing by lorry splashing mud on you is directly proportional to the importance of the occasion you are dressed up for.
6. No matter what you wear you will get wet.
7. No matter what you do, you cannot avoid a pothole; avoiding one will lead you into another.

Adding some of my own.
8. The distance between two spots is directly proportional to the number of tires on your vehicle.
10. When you get into an accident, always blame the pothole. You are sure to find one underneath.
11. Have you met Mr. Potholkar and Mr. Khadkar? They have built posh bungalows in the free land that was made available, thanks to the potholes.
12. The size of the pothole is directly proportional to the proximity to construction activity.
13. There is construction activity everywhere around Pune.
14. Software engineers do not do good work in Pune as their brains get detached by the time they reach office. City workers do an excellent job.
15. If road are made of stone, the speed of cars on that road correspond to that of a comparable bullock carts from the stone age.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Heyyyyyyy, good pics.

Map of Pune