No. It's been created by a concerted effort, of both "outsiders" and "insiders." And Bangalore wasn't a sleepy one-horse town. It was sleepy, yes, but that was because it was nice and calm and didn't have too much traffic and pollution. It's been a pretty industrial city right from the '60s. HAL, NAL, ISRO, DRDO, IISc, everybody's been here for a long time. It's just IT which came in recently.

And gratitude is a two-way street, in this case. The city's allowed people to settle here and go about their lives. No one's gone and beaten up "outsiders," like Raj Thackeray or Karunanidhi have done. So if the city's inhabitants need to be grateful to "other" people, these other people also need to be grateful to the "insiders" as well.

Besides, it's a small inconvenience that can easily be rectified, this number plate issue. Saying things like "I feel that the regionalist approach is utmost in Bangalore" is sensationalisation and just silly.