Bangalore ranked best Indian city to live in :-)

Media reports late last week gave me this happy but bit surprising update - "Bangalore ranked best Indian city to live in". 

Not that I disagree with it or not that after living in Bangalore for more than a decade, I started disliking this place. I do love good old Bangalore, more than I had loved it earlier. What an incredible amount of progress has been made by us in the last two decades. But then, my question is, has the city become any better ? My point is also like someone else had told years back - " This City is what it is, only because our citizens are what they are. Nothing More, Nothing less" !

This newspaper article kept my mind clock-ticking, and is the reason for this blog post. I haven't travelled far and wide within India, but with the limited travel experiences and with the closeness I feel with Bangalore, if this is the 'Best Indian City to live in', then, we Indians must definitely start thinking !

The seed of my thoughts, is this article (http://ibnlive.in.com/news/bangalore-ranked-best-city-to-live-in-india/207076-62-132.html) : Pipping the four metro cities of New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai, the southern technology hub of Bangalore has emerged as the best Indian city to live in, a global survey said on Tuesday. Bangalore has been ranked as the best Indian city both in terms of quality of living and the personal safety standards.

Being Friday, I had a relaxed schedule (for a change), and I decided to drive today with my mobile phone camera on and handy, to see the lighter side of our city. Here I what I could see, to prove my point :

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8jMkAMbWnTuN2UyN2VlZjYtMjlkMC00ODM5LWIxY2YtNmE3ZTk0Zjk3ZjE2
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8jMkAMbWnTuOTk2MDNmM2UtMWU5Mi00YTNhLWJiZjgtZWJjYzZlM2FkYzhj

So, I would love to summarize once again : The best city is that which has the best man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the best city as long as our citizens  are what they are. Maybe we can show government how to operate better, showing this survey result which had been yielded because of just having good people inspite of absolute negligence from the rulers !

Double Dip - RECESSION ?

NEWS UPDATE : Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou announced to call a controversial referendum on his country's $130 billion European bailout plan in early December, and caught European leaders completely off guard and scrambling for a response.Papandreou's stunning announcement that he would stage a referendum roiled world financial markets and threw into question an ambitious and costly European deal worked out in torturous negotiations a week ago. 

A ``no'' vote in the referendum would have enormous consequences not just for Greece but for the rest of Europe. It could lead to a disorderly Greek default, force Greece out of the 17-nation eurozone, topple many fragile European banks and send the global economy spinning back into recession. 

Playing hardball, eurozone officials said an (euro) 8 billion ($11 billion) loan that Greece needs within weeks to avoid bankruptcy was conditional on Greece backing the latest rescue deal....blah, blah

FOOTNOTE : Is it enough living through these theories of speculations, fearful days on repeated recessions, even the day's weather affecting the fuel prices in the country etc etc....

Why cant we simply go back to age old theory of earning-to-spend and supply-demand equation, to forget what a bail-out or globalization strategy mean ?