Kuala Lumpur - Day 1

As I write this article sitting in the heart of Kuala Lumpur City, Malaysia at the IMBI Monorail Station recounting the intriguing and excruciating experience of traveling in Kuala Lumpur (KL), I feel the thrill of unplanned and self-guided city tour.

We were two people, I and my friend Mithun. We took the Air-Asia flight from Bengaluru to KL that departs from Bengaluru at 5:15 PM (IST) and lands in KL at 11:40 PM (KL Local Time). As soon as we reached the Bengaluru International Airport to catch our flight, we saw, suddenly a volley of vehicles reaching the airport and a mob descending down on the ground.

Before we could comprehend what's going on, we saw Chandrababu Naidu, a politician and ex-CM of Andhra Pradesh descending down. He was surrounded by a large group of people comprising his fellow party workers and security guards and one person constantly filming him on a digicam. Seeing all that drama, a thought flashed across my mind like a lightning bolt - If you want people to salute you lifelong, do something to extort them systematically at a very large and mass scale - something exactly what the politicians and bureaucrats do.