Happily moving again towards my “Bangalore Mood” by flying there, just checked my mails on board the Lufthansa flight and got an e-mail from Anna Libhen, a friend from Bangalore, very sharp mind, born in Moldovia, living in New York for the last decade(s) and now working with Thompson as a software architect. She sent around some statistics, one of the kind where you don’t have a clue whether all these “facts” are true, but at the same time don’t care at all. Enjoy:
1.Bangalore has the impeccable record of highest growth within a span
of 20 years.
2. Bangalore has highest number of pubs in Asia.
3. Bangalore has highest number of cigarette smokers in India.
4. Bangalore has the highest number of software companies in India -
212 followed by Hyderabad -108, Pune
- 97. Hence called the silicon valley of India.
5. Bangalore has 21 engineering colleges, which is highest in the
world in a given city. Bangalore university has 57 engineering
colleges affiliated to it, which is highest in the world.
6. Bangalore is the only city in the world to have commercial and
defence airport operating from the same strip.
7. Bangalore has highest number of public sectors and government
organizations in India.
8. Bangalore university has highest number of students going abroad
for higher studies taking the first place from IIT-Kanpur.
9. Bangalore police has the reputation of being second best in India
after Delhi.
10. Bangalore has the highest density of traffic in India
11. Bangalore has the highest number of 2-wheelers in the world.
12. Bangalore is considered the fashion capital of east comparable to
Paris
13. Bangalore has only 48% of local population (i.e.Kannadigas).
Hence a true cosmopolitan with around 25% Tamilians, 14% Telugites,
10% Keralites, 8% Europeans, 6% a mixture of all races
14. Bangalore is rated the cleanest city in India
15. Bangalore has produced the maximum international sportsmen in
India for all sports ahead of even Mumbai & Delhi.
16. Bangalore has produced the maximum number of scientists
considered for Nobel Prize nominations.
17. Bangalore has produced the highest number of professionals in USA
almost 60% of the Indian population abroad is from Bangalore (except
Gulf).
18. Bangalore is famous for THREE: Software Professionals, Girls and
Dogs.
19. Bangalore is famous for its dog bites, an average of 12 people
are bitten by stray dogs per MINUTE somewhere in Bangalore
Feeds
hello Mister, been trying to speak to you on all your numbers but for some crazy reason you are incommunicado…
Check your mail.
Kiss, Nx
lot of crap in those stats
ok swore not to comment anymore, have better things to do but the list is definately crappy (hmmm there is a lot of crap lying around the streets in Blr)
to have the ordacity to place Blr as the fashion Metropol goes tooo far for this shallow fashion victim.
Boringalore is filth, filth, filth…..
Hyderabad in comparison sends out their cleaning team every night to bring this city spick and span.
I would encourage budding programmers to move there as the power failures are also kept to a minimum.
someone there was clever enough to think of the needs of the people and not his pocket, hence their investing in the City and surrondings so that it functions.