Taking Cabs to Bangalore International Airport is a tricky option, considering it is a minimum 40 kms from the heart of the city such as Koramangala. Most cabs charge Rs 12/km. However some charge exorbitant rates like Meru Cabs.
Through my personal experience I have found City Safari cabs to be helpful and reliable. One way to the airport will cost you Rs 500-600. Most importantly they are punctual and so far havent failed to turn up on time. City Taxi cabs are also good. Travelling Time around 1.5 hours. Details given below:
City Safari Cabs,104/1/2,Tavarekere, Bangalore, Ph: 080-25534276, 98445-80026
City Taxi, Bangalore, Ph: 080-41552222
Note: Never take EASY CABS. Their service is horrible.
Cabs take 4 people so its better in groups. However if you are travelling single and with minimum luggage, its best to take Vayu Vajra Volvo Buses that run every 30 minutes from several parts of the city to BIAL. It would cost you around Rs 120-Rs 160 for one way journey. Travelling time 2 hours.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
IPL Saga - Another Indian Tamasha Unfolds
The IPL Season 3 finale is over and Chennai Super Kings have lifted the coveted title going past Mumbai Indians. But the drama behind the scenes is far from complete. As Lalit Modi gets crucified from all quarters, one can’t help but ponder as to what might have gone wrong. Surely IPL was Modi’s brainchild but it’s not possible to stage an event of this magnitude as well as manage the wrong doings that he is being accused of, all alone. There has to be a larger picture behind this, there has to be more people involved and all of this is just not possible whether BCCI’s patronage and know-how.
Let’s consider for a moment that Modi did commit all the sins that he is being accused of. Then why are all of these surfacing after 3 years. And more so why it is that only after a Union Minister has had to face the music after his involvement did the sky come crashing down on Modi? What was the BCCI doing all this time? After all IPL is managed by BCCI. Sadly, the media does not delve on these questions comprehensively. Instead it’s just happy to relay the comments coming out from both the camps-one from Shashank Manohar and the other Modi camp.
It’s a known fact that DLF IPL started on a very shaky ground whereby most franchises as we know of them now, never came forward to initially invest in the teams. More so after seeing the losses incurred by Zee group promoted ICL (Indian Cricket League). That’s when Modi stepped in using his contacts and convinced some of his friends as well as business individuals to invest in IPL. Imagine Sahara Group, one that has sponsored the Indian cricket team since many years coming in to buy the Pune team after 3 seasons when one would have expected them to do so right from the inaugural year. But then now that DLF IPL is established as a world known sporting extravaganza and a lucrative brand in itself, everybody wants a piece of the pie and the limelight.
Nobody seems to remember what Modi has done for Cricket in general, particularly Indian Cricket. The way he got Bollywood involved, merged entertainment and cricket and changed the lives of so many talented yet unknown cricketers is something which no one else has done before and probably would have never been able to do. Today the likes of Murali Vijay, Vinay Kumar, Manish Pandey, Saurabh Tiwary and Ambati Rayudu are household names. Even players like Ashish Nehra, long forgotten and discarded from the national side have got a second life. Isn’t that great especially for a country not known to have a solid regional base from which scores of talented individuals come up and stamp their authority at the international level. Ranji trophy is hardly watched by the common people except when Mumbai makes it to the finals and we are no where close to Australia that produces great new talent every season. But now thanks to IPL and Modi things have changed for the better.
The basic point is, even if there was gross misdemeanours with regards to IPL management and franchisee allotment, it could not have been done by one person. Surely all the others within the BCCI and even political leaders are involved. Modi is just a soft target and the scapegoat in this instance so that the public and media leave the entire incident alone. A Joint Parliamentary Probe or even a CBI enquiry is useless any which ways. Reports will get tabled after 10 years or so going by their history of speed in enquiry and by that time no body will even remember a thing of what had happened. In between cricket and the image of India suffers. As long as greedy politicians and fame hungry individuals manage cricket even after not having played a single cricket match in all their lives, this will continue to be the spate of things in the country. Hopelessness is all that we stare at as everything has been bought over by money and gossip (the media particularly) and we never acknowledge great individuals such as Modi who have done something, atleast something for the betterment of Indian cricket and its future.
Let’s consider for a moment that Modi did commit all the sins that he is being accused of. Then why are all of these surfacing after 3 years. And more so why it is that only after a Union Minister has had to face the music after his involvement did the sky come crashing down on Modi? What was the BCCI doing all this time? After all IPL is managed by BCCI. Sadly, the media does not delve on these questions comprehensively. Instead it’s just happy to relay the comments coming out from both the camps-one from Shashank Manohar and the other Modi camp.
It’s a known fact that DLF IPL started on a very shaky ground whereby most franchises as we know of them now, never came forward to initially invest in the teams. More so after seeing the losses incurred by Zee group promoted ICL (Indian Cricket League). That’s when Modi stepped in using his contacts and convinced some of his friends as well as business individuals to invest in IPL. Imagine Sahara Group, one that has sponsored the Indian cricket team since many years coming in to buy the Pune team after 3 seasons when one would have expected them to do so right from the inaugural year. But then now that DLF IPL is established as a world known sporting extravaganza and a lucrative brand in itself, everybody wants a piece of the pie and the limelight.
Nobody seems to remember what Modi has done for Cricket in general, particularly Indian Cricket. The way he got Bollywood involved, merged entertainment and cricket and changed the lives of so many talented yet unknown cricketers is something which no one else has done before and probably would have never been able to do. Today the likes of Murali Vijay, Vinay Kumar, Manish Pandey, Saurabh Tiwary and Ambati Rayudu are household names. Even players like Ashish Nehra, long forgotten and discarded from the national side have got a second life. Isn’t that great especially for a country not known to have a solid regional base from which scores of talented individuals come up and stamp their authority at the international level. Ranji trophy is hardly watched by the common people except when Mumbai makes it to the finals and we are no where close to Australia that produces great new talent every season. But now thanks to IPL and Modi things have changed for the better.
The basic point is, even if there was gross misdemeanours with regards to IPL management and franchisee allotment, it could not have been done by one person. Surely all the others within the BCCI and even political leaders are involved. Modi is just a soft target and the scapegoat in this instance so that the public and media leave the entire incident alone. A Joint Parliamentary Probe or even a CBI enquiry is useless any which ways. Reports will get tabled after 10 years or so going by their history of speed in enquiry and by that time no body will even remember a thing of what had happened. In between cricket and the image of India suffers. As long as greedy politicians and fame hungry individuals manage cricket even after not having played a single cricket match in all their lives, this will continue to be the spate of things in the country. Hopelessness is all that we stare at as everything has been bought over by money and gossip (the media particularly) and we never acknowledge great individuals such as Modi who have done something, atleast something for the betterment of Indian cricket and its future.
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