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Why Bangalore should be the capital of India?

Why Bangalore should be the capital of India?

Mohammed Bin Tuglak once changed India’s capital from Delhi to Devagiri. It was a strategic move at that time (though he ended up as the most foolish emperor of all times). Now the time has come for us to come together to shift the capital from Delhi to Bangalore and here are my own list of reasons to support my point. Here I present in front of you ten non-debatable points on why Bangalore is the best choice to be the capital city of India.

Delhi is the political capital of India and night-life capital of India, Mumbai is the economic capital of India and Entertainment capital of India, Jaipur is the cultural capital of India, Hyderabad is the hi-tech city of India, but nothing beats Bangalore.

Last time I was in Bangalore was in 1980's in my childhood. I could still remember the clean roads, beautiful gardens and most of all roads...

Previously, Bangalore was famous for several things. Bangalore was the Garden City of India, Air-Conditioned city of India, Silicon Valley of India, Heritage capital of India, IT capital of India and what not... you just name it.
Now, I am staying in the same city for almost two years and my opinions are being shattered every time I come out of my house.

Bangalore was the first city in the country to become commercial and attract foreign investments in the information technology field. Now, Gurgoan, Hyderabad, Noida, Pune, Chennai are trying their best to capture the IT capital title from Bangalore. It’s just a few years away when Bangalore will lose this title to one of those cities.

There are cities where the development is progressive and some cities, where development has reached its saturation so it is stand still. I now present you the city which is proving otherwise. Folks, welcome to our very own Bangalore

Following are the top ten reasons what I can think of to decide that Bangalore to be capital of India

10. Crime:

Not very long ago, there was a gang which was operating in Bangalore. Their main goal, to make some quick bucks. Their target, poor software people who are always underpaid for the work they do. Their time of work, late nights. These gangsters were intelligent. They knew that all the software guys work late and used to target them. But, they were not intelligent enough to know that we don't have that much money left with them anymore.

I remember incidents where they used to snatch everything from the victims (except for their pair of inners, for obvious reasons) and leaving them in no man's land.

Though this is now very rare in Bangalore, but criminals are now coming up new versions. They are now targeting company cabs which carry female employees. Their current goal is money (in some cases, even pleasure).

Very soon, Bangalore is emerging as the crime capital of India


9. Cost of Living:

We know the mantra to be the capital. It’s the cost of living. We know about Tokyo (Japan), Moscow (Russia), London (UK). They are the capital cities because they are costly cities.

We pay rupees 10,000 to 15,000 for a semi-furnished double bedroom apartment in Bangalore (with an advance amount of 100,000 to 150,000). The same can fetch you a luxury apartment in places like Chennai or Hyderabad.

Though Mumbai is the most expensive city in India, but Bangalore is fast catching up. The mantra here is "It pays to be in the capital".

So, Bangalore will soon be the cost of living capital of India

8. Asthma:

Asthma, as I suffer silently with this while writing theses words, is the crown of glory for Bangalore with almost 25% of its citizens suffering with this.

With all the other cities in the country trailing far behind in this particular category, Bangalore is unanimously voted as the Asthma capital of India. It can even be given the title Asthma capital of the world, but it’s kind of weird. So for now, Bangalore is the Asthma capital of India. No debate about this.

7. Dust:

Gone are the days when Bangalore is used to identified by the trees on either sides of the road. With trees falling fast to pave a way for urban outburst, Bangalore has just the trunks left of the ground (sometimes obstructing traffic). The main leftovers were actually the un-paved footpaths. As the people start inventing new ways of transport, it was not very late when they started traveling on these pavements. This generated so much of dust and from this dust raised so many dangerous diseases. Every time I am road I remember the song by Queen “Another one bites the dust”

For the first time, in Bangalore, I saw people riding their bikes on pavements. Hence, Bangalore is the dust capital of India.

6. Police:

Anywhere in the world the only criteria for any traffic police to stop a vehicle and question the driver is when the driver breaks the law or when there is some suspicion. In Bangalore, the traffic police have some different responsibilities. They have to control traffic and create havoc out of nothing. They have to stop all the bikers with a different state registration numbers (for the crime of having a different state registration) and leave the gangsters who indulge in snatching chains and valuables of the pedestrians to the city police to handle.

I don’t know why, they get a wonderful idea of stopping the traffic signal robots and handle the traffic flow on their own. Every time this happens, I end up being in the traffic for more time than usual. I wonder machines here are far superior to humans (read, traffic police).

The much hyped hoysalas (a traffic patrolling vehicle) and other police patrolling vehicles are often seen empty on a road side, when they are supposed to patrol. May be they are trying to increase the police budget by saving some fuel (after all, their appraisals are dependant on those numbers only).

Bangalore should be the capital for having such a wonderful police department.

5. Stray Dogs:

How come stray dogs decide the fate of Bangalore? Well, as far as I know, in Bangalore, there are more stray dogs than humans and all the animals put together. Anyway, who are worried about stray dogs? Well, if you are in Bangalore and you are in software industry and if you are an unlucky bike owner, you will be worried.

Why stray dogs always target software engineers? I like this question and investigated further on this. What I observed is... it is the software engineers working late in the office and go back home around 2 am are targeted.

The dogs are pretty much ready for any kind of attack. I once had a close encounter with them. They are very good strategists, trap the victim and attack from all possible directions. I was lucky to be out of them without any damages to the body physically. But mentally, I am so scared that I can accept death but not a drive on my bike in the night.

For all these wonderful things, Bangalore is the stray dog capital of India

4. Deve Gowda:

Bangalore has "Deve Gowda". This in itself is enough to make Bangalore the capital of India

3. Traffic Jams:

One day I had a dream, I was driving on my bike at 90KMPH from Koramangala to my Office (some 20 Km) without any traffic jam on the airport road. I woke up abruptly when the guy behind me honked at me in the traffic jam. I don't remember the last time when I traveled at 70KMPH on Airport road.

Bangalore is also the only place you can ever see a traffic police constable controlling the traffic on a flyover bridge.

I feel I am lucky to only have to travel by Airport road and not the Hosur road. I know my friends who work in Electronic City and had to spend most of their day on this road. I still spend only 3 hours a day for 40 Km travel (to and fro from office).

Bangalore is the Traffic Jam capital of India with all those productive work happening only in a Jam.

2. Potholes:

Locality: Koramangala
Street: 80ft Road
Demand: Change the name of the location
Reason: There is no road. It is just a pothole

Bangalore, the place which once attracted so many IT brains is attracting more potholes now-a-days. I have seen potholes, potholes within potholes and many more stuff except for a road. All you have are stone filled potholes.

I never knew until somebody rightly pointed out that Pro-rural government means turning everything equivalent to rural (including roads).

Bangalore roads are pathetically worse. I don't know a road without a single pothole (including the very famous Brigade and M.G. Roads).

Certainly, Bangalore is the pothole capital of India (anybody want to debate with me on this are welcome)

1. Politics:

Bangalore certainly has some of the very active politicians. They hold the bull by its horns. They know the priorities of people. People certainly can live with Potholes, with traffic Jams, with stray dogs, with dust and asthma and also crime, they can even live with Deva Gowda, but... they certainly they cannot live without the name Bengalooru. Yes, the burning agitations from several organizations, from top industrialists like Narayan Murthy repeatedly complaining about the worst infrastructure of Bangalore and weakening of its image in the international arena is being answered at a single blow.

Bangalore is one of the biggest success stories in India. It has a very good image (outside Bangalore) of infrastructure and jobs and what not. All these years Bangalore has accumulated fame for itself. And this government is not letting down the image at all.

Bangalore remains a successful city in the Indian history books even if the current state of affairs continues. Because it is now going to be Bengalooru, which is going to take the beatings.

Bangalore...oops... Bengalooru should be the capital of India for its active politics.

Conclusion:
Delhi has only two or three capitals attached to it, Mumbai has four to five, and Bangalore beats every city in this race. I don't know any other city with so many capitals attached to its name. So, I again say Bangalore should be the capital of India.

So, you have made to this point. Thanks for reading this. I certainly feel that Bangalore or Bengalooru (What's in the name as said by Shakespeare) will not only lose its charm (it’s already fading pretty faster) but also its economic prowess if things continue this way.

I don’t have any more to say about Bangalore, because I know I have a different destination and I'll go back to Hyderabad (tomorrow, if not today). You guys better be prepared as I don’t see the end of the tunnel from here.

Comments, arguments, hate mails are welcome

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I want to break free

Well, do you know anybody who hate their weekends?

There are people who hate theiw weekends. I hate my weekends, probably for a very unique reason.

I hate my weekends because, I have to wash my clothes weekend after weekend after every damn weekend. I tried several ways. I tried giving my clothes to the laundry, I tried washing machine, I tried every damn possible thing, but still ended up hand washing clothes every weekend. Damn, I want to break free. Queen, save me...

My friends gave several ideas, most of which were already tried out. Then, oneday I read somewhere... We have to think out of the box. mhmm, I like this idea.

I atlast broke free...

I hired a maid who washes my clothes every wonderful weekend ;)

My Good Old Days

All olden days are not good and all good days are not old.

When I was 20 and out of my graduation college, my road of life was a cross road and red signals all the way. I had only one choice, wait for a green light. Then came my post graduation entrance results and Wham! I got a seat. The most dreaded dream of my life (I have to study more).

I always wanted to work (now, I changed my plans) rather than study. But damn, these software companies, they don't pay good money for illiterates. They want people who have done their masters. So I had no other option, but to bang my head for the lectures (most of which I have bunked).

My days at college while doing my post graduation were the best days of my life so far. I had a great time with my friends, watching movies and sometime porn :p

I never had any regrets of joining the masters course. Well, have you ever heard of a lie?. I know the answer, you have heard. I regretted 3 times (for joining the course) in my masters degree. One before each of my semister exams. But, now i feel that was fun (maybe because, I dont have to appear any exam now)

I am sure you guys would have some kind of similar experience. Do share your experiences...

Hello! World

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