What a day in Bangalore!!!
Bangalore is blessed with a lovely climate. It's such a lovely day today, I bet anyone can fall in love with this city(17 degrees in the day time).Feels like a hill station. Woow! what a perfect weather to stay home with a cup of hot coffee and a good book in hand. Unfortunately, I am sitting in the office updating my blog :-(
The best part of Bangalore weather is it's neither too hot nor too cold. It has a balanced weather. If the days are hot, nights automatically cools down. I bet you won't find this anywhere else. Of all the places that I visited so far, I feel this is the best city to live.
I love my Bangalore :-)
Bangalore, once upon a time had a very salubrious climate. Just look back in time, not too far, just a decade or two. The city was much greener and cleaner. The weather more pleasant, the chaos much lesser and above all, a city that was just known for what it was intended to be; the garden city, the pensioner’s paradise!
ReplyDeleteIronically, all that is left of this once great city are its numerous sobriquets. Today, we have one of the highest density of vehicular population in the country. The poisonous fumes being emitted by automobiles of all shapes and sizes are choking the heart & lungs of not just the city’s hapless citizens, but are bleeding the city to death, breath by breath! The beautiful boulevards have vanished and made way to wider roads, completely naked without its decade old trees and the residents that inhabited them. With little or no greenery, the birds have disappeared and some have become extinct and the remaining, on the verge of extinction. Isn’t it alarming?
Yes, the growth of the city in terms of infrastructure, opportunities and as the knowledge capital has its advantages. There was a huge influx of people from across the country in the early 1990’s making Bangalore their new dream destination. This quiet & quaint little town was transformed into a mega polis with gleaming towers, home to the world’s best MNC’s and attracted the best of talents in the field of Science & technology. Suddenly, the world was ‘bangalored’, as if to say, the world existed in one cityJ.
Swanky cars zoom on the roads, innumerable shopping arcades and entertainment centers serve the young & vibrant populace that throngs them. Rising apartment buildings, palatial homes of the nouveau riche and the growing needs of millions of citizens who have made it their home has taken its toll on this great city affectionately called “Namma Bengaluru”.
Today, we have a crumbling infrastructure, which is archaic in its present form, unable to meet the growing needs of the ever growing city. People are getting older than they actually are. The rising cases of epidemics and lack of proper health care, the hazardous life-style and fast-food replacing healthy meals and the growing divide between the have’s and the have-nots does not really put us in the enviable position. Is this development? If yes, development at what cost?
The numerous water bodies have given way to illegal encroachments to make room for the growing demand for housing. The few lung spaces are slowly shrinking, thanks to the greed of land sharks and the forever in-efficient civic bodies and government failure in checking sustained growth.
So, if you still believe Bangalore is beautiful; then, “beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder” and very truly, indeed!