I am a regular reader of Rajeev's columns and a big fan too...However I disagree with the writer on this article completely. I do not agree that the south is doing better than the rest of the country. Tamil Nadu along with Gujarat and Maharashtra has always been a driver of the economy. This is not the case with Karnataka, my home state. Karnataka's growth has revolved around the Bangalore-Mysore region. The northern parts of Karnataka still suffer from severe water & food shortage, lack of access to education and healthcare and has seen a spate of farmer suicides of late.. the typical problems faced by BIMARU states. The writer's claim that Bangalore and Hyderabad have surged ahead of Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi & Chennai is also not very accurate...Once major cities get saturated it's always the turn of the next rung of big cities to see growth. Soon a time will come when cities like Pune, Lucknow, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Coimbatore, Cochin, Vishakapatnam, Nagpur etc.. will grow faster than Bangalore and Hyderabad. This is just plain economics. I hope Rajeev's forthcoming articles will not be so biased and will be better researched.
