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From: Thejaswi Udupa <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, 30 January 2012 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [silk] What is the greatest human invention?
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Biju Chacko <[email protected]> wrote:
> While not a native Bangalorean, I've lived here a long time and I
> consider it home. I mourn the loss of the quiet, civilized town that I
> moved to. I hate the fact that the software and call centre boom has
> turned it into a crowded, polluted, crass sprawl. I especially hate
> that it's caricatured as the call centre capital of the world.
>
> There's a whole lot more to Bangalore than call centres: software dev,
> manufacturing and more. There's a small but active theatre, music and
> art scene. The restaurant scene has greatly improved: it's a lot more
> cosmopolitan -- though the quality is inconsistent.
And being a native Bangalorean, I echo all this.
And not being a native Bangalorean, non-resident at that, I echo all this too.
A pox on those who offload their dirty work and then call the laundry a slum.
JRS explicitly excluded.
