Culture is holding people backwards

Pro kannada groups on a total vandalism spree across central Bengaluru. Smash English Signboards & vandalise property in full public view.. cops struggle to maintain order!!

I recently moved to Bangalore and almost immediately went into a zone of persistently feeling sad and hopeless. I refused to take antidepressants. I am doing slightly better after few sessions of therapy, but I want to know some other alternatives? Anybody experienced the same thing? What makes it better? Bangalore feels like a culture-less city tbh.

Everyone knows the org behind this, faces are captured on cameras but still these culprits are roaming free. That’s how democracy works!

I don’t understand what’s happening. This vandalism seems to be widespread?

I moved to Bangalore earlier this year. Like the weather, like the people, like the breweries. All good. But what is even up with the Bandhs that happen in this place? I feel like there have been at least 5 since I moved in. For being India's "Silicon Valley", just these disruptions in operations are not very good. For the pure tech companies, it's not too bad. But when trying to execute something operational in nature, it's much much more tougher. For the larger companies, they have learnings and experiences across covid etc, and have a larger #operating partners who can help them out in cases of downtime. The smaller ones are caught figuring out. Of course, in some way it's not a very big deal. We've learnt from worse times. But it's just that I've not seen this happening as much in Mumbai/Delhi. What's up with the Bandhs of Bangalore? 🤔

Keeping my biases aside, I've seen 2 sides of the entire people's behaviour and culture: 1. Locals (folks from the city/state) are known to refer to the ones from other states as "outsiders" or "immigrants". We have seen some extreme cases where the people not from Karnataka are expected to understand Kannada. 2. People from outside, working in Bengaluru seem to complain about things beyond the point 1 instances and keep saying "It's just the weather that's good, everything else sucks". Note: 1. Having more people (especially working individuals) in the city has a direct impact on city/state revenues. These working individuals earn, and spend 2. Flexing "Kannada" by locals (especially service providers) is stupidity. They do realise that if the population drops they'll have lesser business (think, autos and cab drivers asking passengers to know Kannada) 3. People flocking in the city for their jobs, the traffic problems are obvious - if you opt for shared transport (metro, buses), we'll find a slightly relaxed traffic. You flex your two and three wheelers, what do you expect? 4. Outsiders or insiders, we have decided and chosen to stay here by trading off certain things to get benefits (mostly pay and growth opportunities), so it's our choice afterall Why do we still keep bashing and targeting each other 🫠 Love 💞 and Peace ✌🏻