Passing through Bangalore today. The garden city has also recently decided to rename itself following the other metros. It is officially called Bengaluru, meaning the land of Bengal, I guess. As to why it has chosen this inapposite name, I have no idea.
Following the recent trend of locating airports as far away as possible from the city, here too the distance has multiplied. It takes about an hour and a quarter if traffic is easy. Which is par for the course for a major city now. If only the railways could set up high speed trains between some of these cities, just eliminating the airport to city transfers would make the train journeys shorter than the respective flights. This is one thing the Europeans have figured out and implemented nicely.
Plus one does not have to worry about shooting through the sky in a little aluminium tube with jet engines stuck to it.