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 !
