Week 4, 2007

After a five hour wait at Calcutta airport on the way to Bangalore from Silchar, Isha had enough reason to be pissed off. But worse was to come. We had been rebooked on an afternoon flight after missing the previous day’s connection. And quite a ride it was. Unknown to us, in exchange for our 2-hour direct flight tickets, Indian Airlines (or just ‘Indian’ in its current avataar), had very helpfully booked us a little cross-country jig. Calcutta to Bhuvaneshwar to Chennai to Bangalore…a little over six hours. 

 

Truck-wash heaven. A roadside pit-stop for this dumper beside the Chennai Bangalore highway.
Taken from a speeding car with all camera settings in auto mode. I’m surprised the shutter speed adjusted so well.

 

Bangalore Chennai highway. NH-4, 7 or 46, depending on which part of the stretch you are on. The highway has undergone a major transformation and is now 6-lane all the way. It is part of the Mumbai – Chennai section of the ongoing Golden Quadrilateral project. 
It was interesting to note how the responsibility for upkeep of flower-beds on the median has been given to local bodies of the small towns and villages that the highway passes through. The result is an almost continuous well-maintained flower filled median throughout, not to speak of the employment it generates.

 

Swampy marshland or serene lake? Difficult to say when you are speeding by at 120 kmph. I owe this one to the Sports mode of the D50…
Beside NH-7, somewhere between Chennai and Bangalore.

 

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