A lot can happen over a coffee!

After a long tough day of meetings, client calls and staring at the monitor, we took a break. A break always meant eating some chat-pata stuff, bajjis, masala dosas[forget all about calories :-)], a nice filter coffee and just talk over something. All of our chats somehow always lead to our most favorite topic of discussion – Bangalore, the Silicon Valley and the living conditions here. We discuss about the deplorable conditions, the haphazard traffic, the huge infrastructure projects, increasing crime rates and the list just goes on…

Why is this city plagued with all these problems? Everyday, newspapers are flooded with articles on the bad condition of the city. Is this what the city is all about? Where’s the Garden city of India; One of the most accommodative cities, a city with a cosmopolitan outlook, a city of world class institutions and the hot n happening ‘IT’! None of it seems to be the news anymore. And who is responsible for all the mess – Citizens say it’s the authorities and authorities say its lack of civic sense and simple discipline among people. That’s true! It’s a deadlock and nobody wants to accept it. Everybody is happy blaming on the other person and themselves not doing anything. With this attitude, the future looks bleak. Without the strong will of everybody, no one thing can do wonders to the city!

And thus ends every coffee break of ours… but today was a little different. We did not end our discussion there. We just thought we'll discuss about it in a forum. Lets see if people think alike. Lets see if somebody looks into it and makes an attempt to change. We will, but will everybody realize! We always search for solutions as if we have all the power to implement them. We want to see if any of it actually makes sense and gets implemented. We want to understand the difficulties in implementing it and put it forward, so that people appreciate it and stop blaming. And so here we are with this blog. Going forward you will find all our discussions shaping up into new posts. Right from discussing the cause of the problem, to simple solutions for the people to complicated solutions which we don’t know how and who will implement. Its not like an update which you will find in the newspapers, its just our views on the problems and their solutions. If you are a person staying in Bangalore then you are exactly the person who will be able to relate to our discussions.

And like at the end of every break if you ask us as to why the hell on earth we are discussing about problems which we cannot solve – the only answer we both have is always - “For the sheer love of the city”.