Every year, hundreds of youngsters shift to big cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad to establish their careers. However, there has always been this argument about which city helps an individual the most in fulfilling their dreams and Mumbai and Bangalore are the big fishes in the game.
However, businessman Aakrit Vaish, who is the CEO of Haptik (a Reliance Jio platforms company), recently expressed that Bangalore apparently has the smartest people of our generation and that if Mumbai doesn’t buckle up, it could become like Kolkata in the next 20-30 years.
Have a look at his tweet here:
Bangalore has the smartest people of our generation in India.
Bombay should seriously be worried about becoming the next Calcutta in 20-30 years.
— Aakrit Vaish (@aakrit) July 21, 2022
This started a huge discussion (read: debate) under the comments section about whether what the man is saying made sense or not. A lot of people came to the defence of Kolkata and claimed that the city is often misunderstood.
It’s weird how the software you use is perceived to be more important than the leather shoes you wear. Kolkata has a GDP of 150 billion, Bangalore still has a long way to go to catch up to Kolkata. These perceptions come from people who don’t value the essential aspects of life.
— Mitadru Banerjee Chowdhury (@mit_bc6) July 21, 2022
Kolkata has had a bounce back in recent years, yes we might be behind but we are catching up, I’m open to criticism but i dont like normalising stereotypes
— Arkadyuti Dutta (@Arkadyuti_dutta) July 21, 2022
Calcutta happened due to their political leaning towards left ideologies.
and also their more leaning towards Art’s rather than building stuff historically.
Kolkata still produces more PHDs but they don’t do anything apart from teaching, unproductive research.— Dhruva Pandey (@Dhruvapandey) July 21, 2022
Every state contributes differently. Calcutta contributed pretty much the lion share of the Nobel prizes. This is one among many other things. Ups and downs are cyclic, not permanent.
— Debarka Sengupta (@lab_sengupta) July 21, 2022
Kolkata is the least understood city by the majority of the masses.
Smartness & tech aren’t the only metrics to determine the significance of the place.
— Anand Ragavan (@anandaragavan) July 21, 2022
I really don’t get why some people get high with Calcutta bashing. It’s the 3rd largest GDP after Mumbai and New Delhi, despite neither being a financial capital nor a political capital. Forget Mumbai becoming Calcutta, first Bangalore needs to overtake Calcutta in terms of GDP.
— Prakash Rajpurohit (@rajpurohithere) July 21, 2022
Others defended Mumbai and took a dig at Bangalore’s roads, autorickshaws, and startups seeking funds from the city of dreams!
Moreover, there is nothing that I see that makes me feel that Mumbai is losing any of its energy or enterprise or the dare.
So, no, I don’t see any worries on that front.
As for Bangalore, if there are very smart people there, good for them. Not a race, like I said!— Sanjay Mehta (@sm63) July 22, 2022
Not gonna happen. Bombay folks are much more hustleful and there is more efficiency in the system overall.
Innovation might be top notch in bangalore, innovation delivery not so much. Limited scope for service quality improvement. Haven’t seen the needle move in the last 5 years
— Praj Akta (@prajectory) July 22, 2022
All start-up have to come to the funds in Mumbai to get their funding. So i don’t understand what this gentleman is talking about.
— RAHUL CHAUHAN (@crahul04) July 22, 2022
Dude in Bangalore you can’t even find rickshaws that run on meter. Bangalore can’t even come close to Bombay even in 100 years.
— SS1980 (@ShardulSharma1) July 21, 2022
With world class infrastructure opening up in the next few years, Bombay is far from becoming Calcutta,rather it is on course to becoming NY,Paris,London fyi.
7 interconnecting Metros, Metro 3 fully underground, Coastal road from South to North & MTHL.
B’lore needs burnol.
— UmeshRaj (@UmeshRajDirectr) July 21, 2022
While I agree that Bangalore has smart, young people; Mumbai is too culturally diverse to follow Calcutta so soon.
We might be headed towards a US like structure with the (Bangalore) Bay Area creating Tech giants while (Mumbai) NYC continues to grow as the financial hub.
— Rutvij Shah (@The_RutvijShah) July 21, 2022
Nope it does not ser. With the kind of talent we have in India, and the depth and breadth of this nation – just because some code junkies decided to adopt a city as their home doesn’t make them any smarter.
— 0x Rohit (@degenrsc) July 21, 2022
Seriously 😒 the smartest people who dont know the difference between road and path…people who have messed this city up totally and changed it from Garden City to Pothole city and now.. ..a city were we dont know whether we will reach the airport even after 2 hrs in cab
— CJ (@cynthia_bali) July 21, 2022
Do you agree with Aakrit Vaish’s statement?