December , 2008
Paul Theroux's 'Idiots' of Bangalore!
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The travel writer Paul Theroux first came to Bangalore 35 years ago when he was working on his iconic 1975 travelogue, The Great Railway Bazaar. But, he didn't stop at Bangalore. Bangalore was not on his itinerary. It was just a small provincial town back then. So he got down at the Cantonment railway station and boarded another train which took him to Madras. Theroux wrote these words on the City he breezed past: "Small, sleepy, tree-shaded and bungaloidal, Bangalore was inconsequential at the time. It was a town of retired people, many of them British, Indian army officers, fading God-botherers with all that implied: gardening, bowling, cricket-watching, churchgoing, running, women's institute jumble sales, among the clubbable and the soon-to-be decrepit in the limbo of staying on, the Indian equivalent of Cheltenham or Bognor Regis or Palm Beach. They could sit on the veranda, sipping cups of....
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D P Satish has been a journalist for the past 11 years. Born at picturesque Jog Falls in Shimoga district of Karnataka, Satish did his graduation in English Literature. He is a post-graduate in Journalism from the prestigious Asian College of Journalism, Bangalore (now in Chennai). After a brief stint with the Indian Express Group, he shifted to TV. He also worked for an American news magazine called ' Image '. He has widely travelled and covered some of the biggest events from South of Vindhyas in the first decade of the 21st century. He is passionate about English literature, classical music, cinema, history, photography, jazz and Cricket. A self-proclaimed centrist, Satish keenly follows major political developments from across the World. He blogs regularly and spends hours searching for readable material from the Internet! He belives that journalism is a calling and a person meant to be a journalist, can't escape from it. A hillman at heart and by birth, Satish lives and works in New Delhi. But, loves Bangalore more than Delhi!
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