Are you listening?

LCDs and audios have become common add-ons in every restaurant irrespective of the genre these represents. Be it a fast food joint or a grand sit-down cosy restaurant you are invariably treated to a visual-per-second images of MTV with sound muted, and a heavy rock playing on the audio. We take them for granted. Perhaps we have got used to it trying to figure out the reason for putting up muted-television screens and different audio scores playing at the same time in most of the restaurants. To a foreign tourist this is a bewildering unpalatable combo. "Can I have a little peace please and put down the volume?" asked a harried traveller as he eased himself into a cushioned seat of a popular restaurant and tried to relax and catch up with his reading.
Many of the restaurants have failed to understand the importance of branding the ambiance with appropriate music, and how it impacts the patron. And what about chosing a different music for the morning, afternoon and evening hours? Perhaps someone would start looking into them.

Call Tuk-Tuk

Now Chandigarhians need to dial 4242424 and get a pink-coloured autorickshaw, named Tuk-Tuk, at your doorstep. This novel concept, taking a cue from the 'dial a cab', is definitely a welcome addition to our small city where people need to commute short distances. With transparency in pricing it is catching on with the residents though there is a small fleet at the moment, and hopefully, would be scaled up soon.
It would be good if tuk-tuk as a tourist attraction should carry with them tourist literature, mineral water bottles, a small electrical fridge to have soft drink bottles, which the passenger can purchase from the driver.
Happy tuk-tuk.

UT to be governed by Chief Commissioner!

Come November and the governance of the city beautiful would shift back to the 80s structure i.e. of Chief Commissioner. The change is expected when the current Administrator of UT and Governor of Panjab, Gen (rtd) S.F. Rodrigues finishes his tenure, and the central government is expected to bring in a senior IAS officer of 1974-76 batch to head the Union Territory.