Read the following words

• The silicon valley of India
• Tier 1 city of India
• Home to ISRO
• Home to HAL
• Home to IISc
• Home to IIM
• Home  to R&D centre of many fortune 500 companies
• City of lakes
• City of gardens

And now close your eyes. What do you see?
A planned city, full of life, full of intellect, jiving and thriving and all other good things.

Come to Bangalore. Experience the reality. Bangalore like any other city in India

• Doesn’t have infrastructure, worst than Gurgaon. Gurgaon is some time referred to as a millennium city, I used to call it a minimum city. Bangalore is minimal.
• Most of the by lanes and roads and streets are one directional. Be aware while riding your vehicle.
• No traffic sense at all. I usually compare people when I compare two places. Bangalore scores here. People in Bangalore are much more educated. There are very few manufacturing facilities in Bangalore. People here have white collar jobs and hence one can assume, people in Bangalore are much more sensible. Nope, when it comes to traffic, they are not.
• There was a news item in Times of India regarding women in Marathalli using mineral water cans…for washing and bathing. I am exaggerating. Not only women the whole household. Why? There is no adequate water supply in Bangalore. The area named Marathalli is close to International Tech Park and doesn’t have water supply from corporation. People mostly survive on water tankers and bore-wells. Eh!, this is common in many other cities, you may say. But, we are talking about city of lakes.
• Oh well the thing related to water do not end here. Most of the housing complexes are not connected to any central sewerage system. So where does the waste go? To the nearest lake. And well, if these housing complexes are not connected to any water supply system then from where do they source their water? Water tankers who source water from…surprise!!!  The nearest lake. Don’t you think the guy or gal or whosoever invented the phrase “a full cycle” deserves an award?
• Everything is expensive. Things are further aggravated with highest tax structure. No the Bangalore isn’t a culprit here. The Karnataka state imposes insanely high tax slab on vehicles. So a vehicle can cost you around 10% extra in Karnataka. Fuel is expensive. On top of it, the business owners think that every Tom, Dick and Harry is earning millions of bucks and its their right to sell things at at least 1.5 times the original price. Most of business owners in Gurgaon have also learned this trick. So I doubt if Bangalore would be able to hold this position all alone, Gurgaon is certainly going to share this title. Metros normally prove the saying right that income rises to meet expenses.
• Gardens in Bangalore? Lal Bagh. And…? Well…there are lakes. Where you have to pay entry fee. Imagine someone comes from Chandigarh, pays a nominal fee of 50 Bucks to see lake with shoddily managed, I doubt if the word “managed” can be used, side walks. An average Chandigarhian can take pride in their one and only well maintained and beautiful lake and Rose Garden, Rock Garden, Shanti Van and Leisure valley and green belt in every sector, there were at least 49 developed sectors in Chandigarh 4 years ago.

Oh man this is so sad, gloomy, dark side of Bangalore. I am being pessimist. I suck. I need to be hanged on MG Road on busy Sunday. Or better be slaughtered in Chinnaswamy stadium with the whole event being live telecasted on all TV Networks. How dare I present such a horrible image of Bangalore? No, Bangalore is not so sad place. Bangalore suffers from same problem, poor leadership chosen by misguided poor and illiterate people. Sad. I hate being in Bangalore just coz am away from my folks. I can not just drive to my folks on a weekend so I end up cribbing about Bangalore. I am biased. Its really a fun and cool place.

• The weather is the firs thing, I can wear T-Shirts, Denims and Sandals whole year. Damn it. I have stopped wearing formal clothes. The weather is really more or less like the weather in California.
• Its a green city. Much much greener than Gurgaon and my home town but not like Chandigarh of course. Though people complain about BBMP felling of trees every now and then but I still find Bangalore to be a green city.
• Multicultural city. You can meet people from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, literally. Delhi up to some extent, not the whole NCR, has this kind of cultural mix.
• And then, if the other guy can’t speak English he can understand and speak in Hindi. There are people from Rajasthan who speak fluent Hindi, Marwari and Kannada and can understand English very well. A rare scene in NCR and much rarer in Chandigarh.
• Talent is here. Yes. Most of the startups are here. Most of the software technological things are happening here. You are master of damn shit technology, come to Banaglore, you will be treated like a king. If you have can do attitude and will do attitude, come to Bangalore. Talent is welcomed here. The only reason I am here in Bangalore is that I might not see the same opportunity in NCR in near future.
• Ask a Punjabi if he would like to have a liquor vend at every corner, he will say “Yes!”. Bangalore is for those Punjabis.

In the end, Bangalore is like any other overcrowded Indian metro city. There are things that make me say, “Bangalore sucks!!!” and then I end up saying, “Oh I love this weather!”.