Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Long Road to Bangalore
Richard Rapaport writes, "over the last quarter century, as hundreds of corporations have moved in to take advantage of Bangalore's temperate and dust-free climate, cheap housing, and work force educated in information technology (or IT, the popular shorthand here), economic growth has bred a new set of woes. In that time, the city has quadrupled in size, real estate prices have quintupled, and a once gracious metropolis has begun to choke on its own pollution and gridlock."...