your logic is too self-congratulatory. that's like saying new york should be turned into an international free zone because it has "developed" because of irishmen, jews, chinese, indians and hispanics. and english should cease to be the official language of london because there are more outsiders than englishmen.

the reason so many people come to bangalore or any boom town in the first place, is because it is conducive to outsiders. be it the bangalore climate, the people who are at least accomodating (in case you refuse to consider them friendly) and the government which has not done much but at least opened the boon/can of worms we call the I.T. industry (free land, tax holiday, sops).

no one is doing bangalore or any other city a favour by developing it my friend. on the contrary it is bangalore that has given opportunities to lakhs of IT professionals from around the country to make economic progress. otherwise, all our fellow indians who so happily clog the streets and malls bangalore and go on property shopping sprees, would be chilling out in their respective "sleepy towns" namely cochin, lucknow, patna, chandigarh, rajkot, pune, etc. etc.

it would help your cause if you so called "anti-chauvinists" would do a little travelling around the country and look around. the practise of regional language license plates is a common thing across india (check attached pics). does that make us a nation of chauvinists? perhaps. if all that our self-professed intelligentsia can talk about is license plates.

no city belongs to anyone. that does not mean that everyone who comes in and settles down start pointing fingers at every little issue that offends them. there are far more serious issues that citizens need to be talking and doing things about.

how many developmental issues have you taken up in your home state before you went to bangalore Mr. Manu Vilsan?

please take up issues that will make a real difference in our lives.

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From: Anurag Sharan <anuragsh@...>
To: collectivechaosblr@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, 5 January, 2009 12:20:14 PM
Subject: Re: [collectivechaosblr] Is it Fascism or Regionalism ??



couldn't agree with you more. While Kannadiga chauvinism is obvious in illegally displaying car registration number plates in Kannada,the police turn a blind eye to this illegality, obviously on instructions from higher ups.It is time to nip excessive display of regional chauvinism in bangalore.C' mon Man, this city has grown from a sleepy one horse town-from the 70's to now ,mainly because of growth created by outsiders-both Indians from other states and foreigners. Lets be grateful .

Anurag

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