Bengaluru techie rides horse to office on last day of work
Roopesh Kumar Verma, a Bengaluru-based software engineer marked his last day at work more interesting: he rode a horse to work. Verma became an internet sensation after photos of him riding the horse with a sign ‘last working day as a software engineer’ went viral. Verma caught the eyes of many commuters and passersby who took pictures with him.
Having been in Bengaluru for eight years now, Verma was frustrated with the city’s perennial traffic problem, and chose to ride a horse to his office on the Intermediate Ring Road, to protest, and draw attention to the traffic jams.
According to Verma, his decision to ride a horse was the need of the hour. “I have been staying in Bengaluru for the past eight years, and I am fed up of the bottlenecks and air pollution. This city is overcrowded, and too many vehicles on its roads lead to traffic jams every day. In fact, I learnt horse riding because of the traffic headache,” he said in an interview to News 18.
Verma who hails from Rajasthan, is leaving his career in software engineering as he feels that techies in India are being exploited by rich MNCs. He is now thinking of starting his own venture.
