Rediff seems to be covering the havoc caused by rain in Bangalore pretty well. Reason : it's the Silicon Valley. Northern districts of Karnataka, which are backward and neglected were devastated in Jul/Aug , same time as Mumbai and almost as bad as Mumbai and the rest of Maharashtra. The area was almost totally ignored by rediff. Is that fair and balanced coverage? You want another point of comparison between Mumbai and New Orleans? North Karnataka was as badly neglected by Karnataka govt as was New Orleans, unlike Mumbai. The difference was, even the national media of India had hardly any coverage of North Karnataka. I had to go to the local dailies' sites, Kannada ones specially, to get the news on the situation. But nothing can top what the C.M of Karnataka mr. Dharam Singh did. Within 3 weeks of the floods, he celebrated his son's wedding in Gulbarga, right in the flood affected area, with 70,000 guests! Speak of bad taste.
let everyone in india stop working..whether it is IT, arts, cine, fashion, computers, manufacturing, services, engineering, all of them.
the only thing india has to do in the next 20 years is civil engineering. build better roads, build better drainage systems, flood water mapping, complete terrain modeling of whole country, how much ever it costs in terms of hardware, software acquisition, training, importing technology from USA.
abandon all ashok leyland (antique trucks and lorries) that do nothing but spew thick black smoke all over. of course, main reason being people in india simply don't know well enough as americans to refine crude oil good enough.
and most of all, i see an india in which there is not a single pot hole in the entire road network. if that happens, i would consider india to be on top of the world.
