Lunch time was still an hour away. Manav Gopal also was buried in the workplace, when he received an e-mail service of the staff of his company last Monday. “The e-mail was all clerical workers to leave immediately,” said Bangalore-based software professionals.
The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal was to announce the closure of their agreement on the sharing of waters of the river so far - Gopal and businesses has been most unlikely. . “While the office was evacuated by lunchtime. We now have the opportunity to stay at home the following days,” said Gopal.
Gopal Court was not the only company pushing the panic button. On Monday afternoon, Bangalore is completely closed. All schools, shops and supermarkets. Many centres of the city with its glass facades of buildings with mesh netting to avoid the damage, niederprasselnd stones. The shock, as a general rule, a block of Hosur Road - Electronic road in the city of Bangalore, hub of knowledge - looked.
The Tamil population of the city has played. “Hundreds of workers in the Tamil language problems expects Bangalore and left,” says Shanmuga Sundaram, President of the Federation of Karnataka Tamils. Busy National Highway 7 - the main artery of traffic between Bangalore and Tamil Nadu - it seemed on vacation. “It was a minimum sports movement between the two countries,” said Sundaram.
The municipality has presented its bit. The Bangalore Mahanagar Transport Corporation (BMTC), drew away from his magnificent red of the price category of Volvo Bus Street public. About 16000 police officers were on duty in the city.
“Nobody could create unrest. Even then, it looked like Bangalore, a curfew on themselves, “said Dr Ali Khwaja, head, Banjara Academy, Bangalore, the oldest clinic.
Khwaja compare Bangalore, in Mumbai. “Mumbai is always on the move, regardless of the series of bombings, or even if it is less than four metres of water. Bangalore But stops, the slightest sign of trouble,” said Khwaja.
Of course, Bangalore and the citizens believe that rather than sorry. If Canada actor Rajkumar died in the past year, has been in his own image, most office buildings and private vehicles in the city. The reason is that, more than verneigte. “There were fears that widespread vandalism and stone buildings are breaking the window shields,” says Rajiv Gowda, a professor at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.
Amit Gupta, a specialist in the computer, New Delhi, Bangalore, two years ago, has never seen a movie in Canada. But Rajkumar an impression of the photo was inserted in his car in two weeks, when the actor died. “My vehicle has a non-Karnataka registration number. Were afraid it would be damaged, he said.
Ramchandra Guha sociologist, this explains the growing concern in the middle of the class Bangalore is the product of a split society. “The city has more and more in the next class. Since upper-class professionals and entrepreneurs foreigners are to a large extent, people feel excluded from the economic recovery, “says Guha.
Guha gave the example riots erupted after the death of Rajkumar. According to police records, every effort has been by young men in the age group 20-30 years. “These are people who have been excluded from the programme name is jobs. Emotional They use their frustrations Schlotfeger situation,” says Guha.
Last month, a peaceful pro-Saddam Hussein rally in Bangalore in an area of the revolt. The police killed a shooting. Curfew in eingespannten east of Bangalore.
A quality of life in the past year by a company whose headquarters is in Bangalore schools, the Alliance Business Academy (ABA), and found that the unemployment rate in the city has increased by 18 percent in the low-income group since 2000. “The growth of Bangalore, focuses entirely on the software sector. Therefore, others have lost ground,” says GR Narayanan, Professor at the ABA.
If the industry of the city, the emphasis moved south of Bangalore. Electronic City, the International Technology Park Limited (ITPL), the shop of art objects, shopping malls and housing complexes were built brightest. “All jobs must be created in southern Bangalore. When people from other parties in order to work, they see them, with its heavy, the developed world, that they are not a party. This leads to jealousy and frustration, “said Narayanan
