On a recent episode of Nikhil Kamath, he says “Bangalore is famous for nice and welcoming people”. This is so very true to a large extent. Every city however has some outliers who tarnish the image by going extreme.
I have seen a lot of posts on GrapeVine complaining about Bangalore and their people. People should understand that every native resident of a city carries a profound sense of connection and endeavours to uphold the cultural heritage of their hometown. And what better way to preserve heritage than to safeguard language ? This is the reason I believe most non Hindi speaking cities try to impose their language on outsiders.
All said and done, I feel language should never be imposed but at the same time it shouldn’t be ridiculed either. I’ve seen a lot of “Kannada” hate post and is disheartening to see it.
And lastly I appologize to all those who have had negative experiences due to a few troublemakers.
TL;DR : Bangalore is a lovely city with warm and welcoming people.
I think these welcoming people are outsiders themselves. Actual natives hates outsiders and as per recent events they are trying to send back people, specially north Indians.
I’m sorry you feel that way man. Bangalore has been warm and welcoming long before the IT revolution started.
Ohh. I have been here from 2 years but didn't find it warm from the localites.
Let me be as blunt as possible. I have went to 2-3 IT cities be it Delhi, Bangalore, Pune or Hyderabad. Every place has their own language and culture and there is no denying that each of these places have huge numbers of non-native people but all of them live in harmony. Not a single time I have seen the locals abusing and using violence on these outsiders but why is only Bangalor famous for it? Haven't been to Chennai but still never seen one complaint of locals abusing and beating outsiders on petty issues. And mind you, I am a native from one of these mentioned cities and I have literally never ever discriminated anyone because they are an outsider. And please don't involve whole Karnataka in this...only the natives of Bangalore have this some sense of superiority and fail to unserstand living in harmony.
lol you didn’t witness that in Pune? Where are Maratha Manus people at
Gurgaon have their own thing going on. I wouldn’t mix with locals much and they wouldn’t bother either
About Hyderabad, I’d agree
" billionaire says people in the city are nice and welcoming". Obviously His personal experience would be very different from the normal person. Before the French revolution, the rich nobles had more than enough to eat but normal people were starving.
Hey the billionaire you are referring to was an average Joe who who grew up in Bangalore and is speaking out of his collective experience.
I agree. Been here for more than 5yr and through entire Covid 3 waves, I would have been dead in if not for Bangalore. As an immigrant, I accept that I have come to this city for livelihood, not because I was invited. I am not entitled to guest privileges from the locals.
If locals feel touchy about Kannada, I understand. I do not think it's much effort, but I have started learning Kannada and I can learn enough in a month to get through my day entirely in the language.
This city is enterprising, citizens here solve issues on their own. The townhall meetings held were such an example. Then there was another where residents came forward and cleaned a lake.
Your attitude is so refreshing. Your comment made my day 😄
Thanks. This is analogous to another event.
I changed jobs and at the new employer they have a different stack and expect us to code in a different language. I have to learn that to fit in, cant tell them to workaround and embrace Java coz it's most popular. Takes a month of effort to adapt.
Newcomers should not dictate terms and try to change the existing ways. First embrace the existing life and only then maybe you can voice your opinion.
I don't think anyone was ever physically assaulted in Bangalore for not speaking Kannada. Heckled yes, but bashed/thrashed/assaulted hell no.
I am an outsider too and my kannada is one of the worst. My local friends acknowledge that- it's just that I am not even good with my own mother tongue. But that aside every time I interact with a local - cops, babus, drivers, villagers in my halting kannada, trust me I sense a genuine acknowledgement from them at my attempt and I get my work done without any hassle. Thats all they look for - an acknowledgement that their culture and language also exists for people beyond their boundaries of ethnic construct. While yes there are outliers like anywhere, but people don't bash the other person for speaking Hindi. As already pointed by other people in audience here, not unlike in Pune. And definitely not unlike in Chennai, people bashing Bangalore have clearly not experienced how much worse hindi speakers would be treated there even 10 years ago.
And that actually applies to any society in the world where ethnic languages are spoken - be it French, Mandarin or Swahili.
I say this to my kannadiga friends as an outsider that what's happening now is that for most outsiders Bangalore is a gateway to South India. Had they been to Chennai and then come here, then things would have been viewed differently
Thank you for emphasising this. More and more people need to read this❤️
@Spy0007 @Tichkole @Madhu I’m sorry you have had disappointing experiences in Bangalore.
I hope you embrace the city and the city reciprocates.
The gov, the discrimination and increasing crime rates…. I’ve been observing this for a while now…
What’s the experience of people actually living there?
Is it really as bad as news outlets are presenting it? Or it’s just an exaggerati...
It's crazy how this native-non native issue persists immensely in Bangalore. No other developed city like Mumbai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Pune has this.
Bangalore is going down big time with so much rising hate in the city.
Then why were these Kannada people crying during COVID and begging the government to make outsiders come to Bangalore...
There is an argument that many developed countries use language tests to allow immigration to their country, including USA, UK, Germany etc.
Logically, Indian states expecting minimum language learning for leveraging opportunities shou...
Keeping my biases aside, I've seen 2 sides of the entire people's behaviour and culture:
There’s either water logging or no water at all There’s either stand still traffic or spend 3 days in the car traffic Bangalore airport is in Hyderabad
But the weather is good and there’s cherry blossoms macha!