These days I commute a lot, rather
should I say, travel a lot to reach my office from home. My experience with
Bangalore Traffic has given me enough insight to publish a doctoral thesis titled
“ A Treatise on the Bangalore Traffic & its relevance to Science,Spirituality”.
Following are the axioms of my
thesis:
“ Mind Like Water” :
Bangalore traffic attains the state
of “flow’’ by behaving like Water. It permeates every available space.
While the Traffic rule states that “You should Drive on the left”, people drive
in whatever is left even the pedestrian path…That’s the state of flow
“Butterfly Effect”:
According to Chaos Theory, a small change at one place in a
system results in large differences to a later state. This is very true
of Bangalore Traffic. A small drizzle in Corporation Circle causes a traffic
jam at the Raja Rajeshwari Nagar located 13 km west of it. If you try to
connect the dots, you cannot which is the quintessential Chaos Theory
“Law of Conservation
of Time”:
Time taken to
commute is the same irrespective of mode of transport. You can drive in car,
cycle, bike , superbike, walk or run…but they are rendered immaterial by
Bangalore Traffic. Time taken between two points is fixed ...FULL STOP
“Survival of the Fittest ”
Be aware of the anarchy (sorry
hierarchy) on the roads. Darwin’s theory of “Survival of Fittest” is
applicable. BMTC(Public transport buses of Bangalore) are at the top of the
pyramid. Even God cannot touch them. This is followed by Trucks, Call Center
Cabs, Cars, Bikes,Cycles & Pedestrian in that Order. The hierarchy not only
provides the “Right of way” but also the “Right of scolding”
“Uncertainty Principle”
According to the famous “Uncertainty
principle” in Physics, there is a fundamental limit on the accuracy with which position
and momentum,
can be simultaneously known. Given the chaos effect, you cannot determine the time(I,e,
velocity) to reach a destination even if you are stone’s throw from it. So stay
away from predictions of reaching a place at a particular time unless you have reached it yet.