'Rate and review potholes': Bengaluru co-founder's hilarious take on city's road woes strikes a chord 每 'name it Potluru'
Bengaluru's heavy rains have caused severe waterlogging, sparking frustration over the city's infrastructure. Amid the chaos, a local co-founder humorously suggested an app to rate potholes, prompting a wave of witty responses online.
Since Sunday night, Bengaluru has been grappling with relentless rainfall, leading to severe waterlogging across the city. Videos and photos of the alarming road conditions have flooded social media, sparking outrage over the state of the IT hub's infrastructure. Amidst the frustration, a Bengaluru-based co-founder has shared a hilarious take on the chaos.
Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan, the co-founder and CTO of Fyle, a Bengaluru-based enterprise spend management platform, recently took to X to share his thoughts on the city's notorious potholes〞or rather, India's, given how widespread the issue is.
Check out his post here:
Planning to build an app where we can rate and review potholes in Bengaluru. I recently saw a 7-star pothole and felt sad that it wasn't getting the recognition it deserved.
〞 Siva Narayanan (@K2_181) October 21, 2024
Who's in?
His humorous post quickly struck Narayanan quipped, "Planning to build an app where we can rate and review potholes in Bengaluru," joking that he recently came across a "7-star pothole" that wasn't getting the recognition it deserved.
The post quickly went viral and a chord with many, racking up over 77,000 views.
Riding on the momentum, he playfully followed up with, "This has kind of taken off. I don't have anything to plug... Except maybe some potholes."
Well, sometimes humour is the best way to cope with the frustrating realities of civic issues that are often beyond our control.
How did people respond?
The comments section quickly filled up with witty responses as people jumped on the bandwagon.
One user suggested, "Give every pothole a unique ID. Make it recognisable based on city and pincode."
Another chimed in to boast about a local "monument," saying, "Your 7 star pothole can't beat the sinkhole on the ORR service road near my place. The venerated monument has been duly marked by a tree branch in typical 'luru style."
And one comment summed up the situation perfectly with a clever new name for the city: "Name it Potluru."
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