What is happening to Bangalore?
Bangalore has always remained my favorite city. Whenever I got an opportunity (professionally or otherwise), I always visited the city. My religious trips to Puttaparthi and Thirupathi always used to be via Bangalore.
Of late I am finding the city to face a unique problem. Most of the larger cities will probably face this problem in the future unless they take adequate precautions.
Look at a few actual examples:
a) An IT worker got robbed near Kempegowda circle (heart of the city towards Majestic) in the auto in which he was travelling. He made the mistake of boarding an auto near the ATM form which he withdrew some money.
b) My friend's brother (working in Intel) was returning home after work. He slowed down his vehicle near MG Road to take a left turn when a few people told him that his back door was open. He stopped only to find that four people got into his car and asked him to drive t the nearest ATM. Asked him to withdraw Rs.25000. Fortunately they did not take the laptop.
c) An IIM L alumni went to bangalore Railway station to drop his fiancee and her mother. While leaving the station, he showed the platform ticket to the TTC who immediately asked him "...what if I tell you that you did not produce the platform ticket..." He got robbed that day within Bangalore railway station by the TTEs, railway police protection force, etc.
There must be many more instances like that that do not come to our notice. People suffer in silence.
In all these examples, the victim is a non-Kannada speaking person who is rich and is an easy target for some of the local population who prefer to follow a get-rich-quick scheme. I have nothing against the peace-loving people of Karnataka. In fact I always say that the best of the people in India live in South India (and in particular Karnataka and in particular South Kanranaka). But of late the increasing gap in income between the haves and have-nots is creating a problem that must be addressed immediately before Bangalore becomes another city in Bihar.
The real estate prices are up. And the local non-IT people have to suffer (unless of course they have a land that has been rented or sold). The difference in the average income of the non-IT and the IT workiers in the city is too high and probably forces some of the anti-social elements to resort to steps like this.
It is not that anti-social elements were not there earlier. However, their modus-operandi has changed.
I have a few suggestions for the non-Kannaka speaking people living in Bangalore.
a) Do not flaunt your wealth. Behave like a normal person.
b) Whenever possible travel either in a bike or the BTS bus.
c) And most important, while entering Bangalore railway station, buy two platform tickets.
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Of late I am finding the city to face a unique problem. Most of the larger cities will probably face this problem in the future unless they take adequate precautions.
Look at a few actual examples:
a) An IT worker got robbed near Kempegowda circle (heart of the city towards Majestic) in the auto in which he was travelling. He made the mistake of boarding an auto near the ATM form which he withdrew some money.
b) My friend's brother (working in Intel) was returning home after work. He slowed down his vehicle near MG Road to take a left turn when a few people told him that his back door was open. He stopped only to find that four people got into his car and asked him to drive t the nearest ATM. Asked him to withdraw Rs.25000. Fortunately they did not take the laptop.
c) An IIM L alumni went to bangalore Railway station to drop his fiancee and her mother. While leaving the station, he showed the platform ticket to the TTC who immediately asked him "...what if I tell you that you did not produce the platform ticket..." He got robbed that day within Bangalore railway station by the TTEs, railway police protection force, etc.
There must be many more instances like that that do not come to our notice. People suffer in silence.
In all these examples, the victim is a non-Kannada speaking person who is rich and is an easy target for some of the local population who prefer to follow a get-rich-quick scheme. I have nothing against the peace-loving people of Karnataka. In fact I always say that the best of the people in India live in South India (and in particular Karnataka and in particular South Kanranaka). But of late the increasing gap in income between the haves and have-nots is creating a problem that must be addressed immediately before Bangalore becomes another city in Bihar.
The real estate prices are up. And the local non-IT people have to suffer (unless of course they have a land that has been rented or sold). The difference in the average income of the non-IT and the IT workiers in the city is too high and probably forces some of the anti-social elements to resort to steps like this.
It is not that anti-social elements were not there earlier. However, their modus-operandi has changed.
I have a few suggestions for the non-Kannaka speaking people living in Bangalore.
a) Do not flaunt your wealth. Behave like a normal person.
b) Whenever possible travel either in a bike or the BTS bus.
c) And most important, while entering Bangalore railway station, buy two platform tickets.
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posted by Pitabas Mohanty at 6:13 AM
5 Comments:
i think indiranagar is getting a little too defensive..
and "buy two platform tickets" .. that's definitely useful after the incident!
p.s. Sir, it'd be useful if you turned on Word Verification on your comments (Go to Settings->Comments after logging into blogger.com) to avoid the spam comments.
Sir,
It is my belief that increase in crime rates in any city are less to do with disparities in population incomes and more to do with increased wealth in general. Bangalore never had any great crime fighting set-up in place. The reason it was quiet in earlier years was that it was more a city of academics and government research labs. Organized crime used it as a safe-haven to run to from cities like mumbai which were the real markets.
It would be incorrect to place the blame on the local populace for these crimes. As Bangalore grows into a more lucrative market it will attract a lot more than just IT companies and retail chains!
I am sorry sir, but I think there is no distinction between Kannadigas and non-Kannadigas when it comes to con jobs. The instances you have quoted could have happened to any software engineer and I don't think he/she would have behaved any differently.
The gap between the haves and the have-nots should take its natural course of ending in favor of the most capable. Let the markets decide. When we always emphasize that the markets can and will decide on the fundamentals, why should individuals be any different? The responsibility of bridging that gap lies with the individual and not with the system. The capable individual will succeed within the system and not in spite of it.
This is how nature has made man the supremen living creature on earth, it will only get better from here.
Hi Sir,
I stayed in Blore for a long time and was witness to the chaning scenario there..
While disparity of income is a factor giving rise to such crimes (I myself have been victimised once), the major reason is that orgnised crimes have replaced petty ones..Its also got to do with the polics inaction, who collude with the criminals..
Cheers
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