Write-Turn 7 - High & Dry

I, like many of our old Bangaloreans must have passed this road many hundred times. Must have looked at the structure a thousand times. Still, the awe factor looking at as not diminished a bit as I found out this morning.

Vidhana Soudha and the road in front looked as beautiful as ever in the 6 am day light. Could not stop to take a picture at that time, but could not resist on the way back.

Our summer jogs 2 decades back used to start near the old Tiffany’s (now the Coffee Day building) and end in front of Vidhana Soudha. It looks still the same with only the newly erected fences being an eye sore.

We all have seen Bangalore change in the last 2 decades. Before that a change of this magnitude must have been some 7 or 8 decades back. Broadened roads, modern buildings, hanging bridges, flyovers, and underground metro stations are all there now.

But is there anything else which more identifies itself with Bangalore than Vidhana Soudha? I doubt. Or is it the mind-set that we are so obsessed with it? Even the identical and brighter Vikasa Soudha stands a pale imitation of its older brother