great thoughts yaar.. i was in bangalore and hyderabad for just under 2 years time and what i could see was something exactly similar to what you just said.. i was always enthusiastic about the scientific acheivments our country and use to talk a lot when ISRO successfully launches a satellite or when a missile is testfired. i couldn't find similar interest in anybody in my office or people around me.. they are just happy talking about celebreties, watching crap hindi movies, flirting etc.. i belong to kochi and i could easily find that patriotism is much more in my place than in those so called metro like cities...