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At the India Today Karnataka Roundtable session titled 'What Youth Want', actors Pranitha Subhash and Samyukta Hornad joined Jordindian creators Naser Al Azzeh and Vineeth Kumar to address youth culture, Gen Z political awareness, digital activism, and urban growth in Bengaluru. The panelists examined how politicians utilize social media platforms like Instagram for outreach, noting how youth engagement and ground protests demand political accountability. The discussion focused on Bengaluru's expansion, infrastructure challenges, road repairs, waste management initiatives, real estate costs, traffic congestion, and road rage, alongside broader issues such as unemployment and human-animal conflicts. Emphasizing civic integration and local identity, the speakers highlighted the importance of learning Kannada, respecting local culture and heritage, and practicing civic responsibility as the technology hub expands. The panel concluded with calls for sustainable urban planning, effective digital communication, and mutual respect between long-term residents and newcomers moving to the city.
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00:00All right, ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together to welcome on stage for the session,
00:06What Youth Want, Pranita Subhash, actor, Samyukta Harnad, actor also with us here for the India Today Karnataka Roundtable,
00:13and the duo of the YouTube channel, Jordi Indian, Nazar Al-Azhar, and also Vidit Kumar.
00:19I hear some extra applauses there, but please.
00:37So we've brought this panel together to ask a question, I think the entire country right now,
00:42especially our politicians, suddenly seem to be asking, what youth want, what do the Gen Z want?
00:48Hopefully, at the end of 30 minutes, if any of the politicians are listening, they'll be able to get some
00:52answers on what really needs to be done.
00:54Vineet, I'll begin with you. Since we're in Bengaluru, I'd love to know, what do the youth of Bengaluru want,
01:00Vineet?
01:00If you can beatbox that for us.
01:03Good afternoon, everybody. Elurgoo, Namaskara.
01:06If you want to know what the youth wants, I think we should ask the youth.
01:09We stopped being youth, I think, sometime back.
01:11But you connect with them.
01:14I mean, we meaning Nasr and me. I speak only for us, nobody else.
01:18What's your definition of youth?
01:20Sorry?
01:20What's your definition? What's the cutoff?
01:22The cutoff is, if you are bothered about tax, you're too old.
01:30I think we're all bothered about taxes.
01:32Exactly.
01:34But one thing that we also want to know is what the youth wants.
01:37I think that the need of the youth keeps changing.
01:41And as we saw in the last, I think, few months, the need of the hour was met beautifully by
01:46the Gen Zs of the people that we address that you're talking about.
01:50And we were happy to just be a small part of it.
01:53But I think they did the heavy lifting and here we are talking about it.
01:56So, yeah.
01:58I agree.
01:58Nasr, do you think that the Gen Zs managed to do what perhaps millennials could never do?
02:06Yes, I think I was telling Beep this and a little bit uncensored, but I think they have more balls
02:14than we do.
02:18Because there were points where we're just like, oh, should we go out and do something?
02:22And they were already out there doing something.
02:25And we had to think about it.
02:26They don't think about it.
02:27They just do it.
02:28They were scared of our parents.
02:29Yeah, so we were brought up in a different timeline and yeah, we still have that fear where I think
02:40the Gen Zs don't, which like I commend them for.
02:43It's like amazing.
02:43And I wish in my next life I'll be a Gen Z.
02:48I think we are stuck breaking one generational curse.
02:51They are breaking 10 at a time.
02:52Yeah.
02:53So, yeah.
02:53They seem to have an attitude, I'm sure you guys rather seem to have an attitude that you're all like,
02:59we'll do what it takes.
03:00We don't care about what people think, which is what I think millennials were hugely burdened with.
03:05Samyukta, what do you think about Bengaluru's youth?
03:08You know, in the course of what's happened in the last one, two months, a lot of questions were asked
03:12about how different cities are reacting, how they're all coming together.
03:17Do you think Bengaluru's youth is also very vocal about what they want?
03:21I think this age of social media, everything is inter-gender, inter-borders, inter-age.
03:33So, I feel like the movement started this whole protest, everything and everyone's participation because there's actually no one seeing
03:43it as a different city, different state.
03:44It was the one question they all asked for and I think Bengaluru, that way, was very responsive.
03:51A lot of people I know went all the way to Janta Mantra for the protest.
03:55So, I think everyone's really involved and this whole thing of this is Bangalore, that is Hyderabad, they're all fighting
04:02for the same cause.
04:03The lines blurred and the city battles.
04:05Yeah, the lines, it's completely blurred.
04:07There's someone in some village who's participating by, you know, commenting, posting these memes, making really funny reels about it.
04:19That is also participation.
04:20So, everyone is participating from every corner of the world, I think.
04:23Pranita, what did you think when you saw all of this, you know, this revolution of sorts on social media,
04:30led largely digital, people were on the ground but they were also, you know, putting out their message on their
04:34feed.
04:35It's like nothing we'd ever seen before, right?
04:38Absolutely.
04:38I think for the government to have a minister resign was a very huge deal and they achieved that.
04:45And I feel like every generation has done its bit, like how, for example, my grandmother was forced to stay
04:53at home, cook for the family and work.
04:55It was a big task for my mom to break that stereotype at home to make sure that everyone understands
05:02that for her, her career is important and not, you know, staying at home and taking care of domestic chores.
05:08And for me, it got easier because I could enter the films and back then that was being considered as
05:15breaking the glass ceiling, that you're taking a career that's less, you know, that's less taken.
05:21And today the Gen Z gets it easier in that sense that all of us have made steps towards this,
05:28that they can actually, they actually have it easier.
05:30But nonetheless, like he said, I think it's because they had the courage to really take on the government and
05:37they know that their views don't align with how the, you know, or their ways don't align with the government.
05:43So they're literally having ministers come on Instagram now and everyone's taking it seriously.
05:48Even Modi had to, Modi ji had to come on Instagram to talk about it.
05:54And I think that's a huge deal for, that's a huge difference.
05:58Nasser, Vineet, what do you guys think about this whole digital outreach by ministers, by politicians?
06:05Do you think it's working?
06:06Is it actually connecting?
06:08They're trying to be like us, you know, like they're trying to be hip and happening.
06:12Is it working?
06:12And I don't think it's working too well.
06:18Do you want to give them some tips?
06:19Yeah, angles are important.
06:26But also, like we follow this rule on social media.
06:30First three seconds is the hook, right?
06:32You don't waste that much time not saying anything.
06:35So make sure you say something in the first three seconds for your video to go viral.
06:39Just a tip.
06:41Yeah, maybe if you start with the minister has resigned, I think the job is done.
06:45You know, edit it and place it in the first three seconds.
06:48To the point.
06:49But what I'd like to say is, like say our generation, the generation before that, we tried a lot of
06:56things and tried to get them on board with it.
06:59Clearly now they've done, like Gen Zs have done something, right, that they can't ignore.
07:02It's like like them or hate them.
07:04They can't ignore them.
07:04So now they are stepping into the zone that Gen Zs are willing to talk and willing to communicate with.
07:10So I think it's a matter of time before angles are set, one full photo shoot will be happening, full
07:17video shoot will be happening.
07:17They will adapt.
07:18Yeah, they'll start doing dance reels also I think soon.
07:22Get ready with me reels.
07:23Yeah, get ready with me.
07:25Get ready without me.
07:26They won't be there only.
07:29That'll become the new normal as for you, right?
07:31I guess so, yeah.
07:32We're going there.
07:33I mean, I think that's one way that not just Gen Z, everyone across the table now is expressing themselves
07:39through reels, through social media.
07:41Things that they are not able to say to their families.
07:43They are okay saying online in front of the camera.
07:47So how did that happen?
07:49I mean, even we are wondering.
07:50We are also amazed by the fact that it's so accessible now that they're not scared to share their thoughts
07:56and feelings anymore.
07:57Do you, and you know, I get what you're saying that none of us here are Gen Z.
08:02Samyukta, do you feel a sense of FOMO in that sense?
08:05Maybe we should have done something like this.
08:07Why didn't we do this?
08:09It's true.
08:11Like both of them actually said that one, they have the guts.
08:15Two, I think social media has changed the game a lot.
08:22And we were accepting things like we had issues with our elders or people elsewhere.
08:30We were scrutinized for having such strong opinions.
08:33And, you know, the whole validation that was required from the society was a lot more, say, 10 years ago.
08:40But right now, there is also a problem of unemployment and the people in power not answering questions.
08:48That these guys who also started thinking together found more voices on social media who were supporting them.
08:54So when you post something like about unemployment, which is how the whole protest started, there are a lot of
09:00people who said, you know, this is what I feel.
09:01This is what I feel.
09:02So you realize there are a lot more people who are going through what you're going through.
09:05And you're sort of on the same boat.
09:08I think when we were studying, when there was maybe bullying or other issues, or even animal cruelty right now,
09:14which is something I fight for.
09:15Now, I found people who have the same voice, and you build a community there.
09:20So when there is support like that, you sort of feel like you are one with a lot of others.
09:25You have a resource now to go ahead and go.
09:27Yeah, and you have the strength to voice your opinion.
09:29And I think that's what Gen Z had.
09:32It has also the support, which probably we didn't get so much.
09:37Yeah.
09:38Pranita, one of the questions that was constantly raised is, yes, you know, you saw all this chat on social
09:42media.
09:43Did celebrities do enough?
09:45To back, you know, what Gen Z was doing and their movement.
09:50Of course, I think I'm sure a lot of celebrities were being careful because it was an anti-sitting government
09:58movement.
09:59And it was a protest at the end of the day.
10:01But nevertheless, I think the protest, I would leave it aside because it had its own sides.
10:07And I'm sure like I'll have my own POV.
10:09And, you know, whether it was a lot of people were using that for their political interests.
10:16And I could see a lot happening.
10:18So it doesn't just remain a protest with a good intent.
10:22I did see a lot happening around it.
10:24So I wouldn't really know if I should voice out or not for it.
10:27But yeah, as celebrities, I think for the Gen Z, it's not exactly for the Gen Z, but for good
10:33causes, we've always stood from day one.
10:36And not just Gen Z, whether it's anything, anything that India needed or wanted.
10:41And yeah, of course, we've all been there.
10:43I think the real question is, did the media do enough?
10:46Come on.
10:47You can't say that.
10:50This is the second time this is happening to me on this stage today.
10:53That's very...
10:54No, but also now the good thing is...
10:56And the last time it was by a minister.
10:57So that speaks volumes of how much the media is doing, right?
11:00That's true.
11:00But also, did they do it immediately?
11:04Sorry?
11:05Did the media do enough immediately is my question.
11:08No, of course we did.
11:09Then why shouldn't celebrities wait and also see how it turns out and then do it?
11:14No, so that's why I'm asking that question.
11:15They debated too, as did the media.
11:17So, you know, you can ask that question.
11:19No doubt about it.
11:19But I think to constantly say that the media didn't do it, look, it was selective.
11:23I will concede that.
11:24It was selective.
11:25There were some who did and some who didn't.
11:27And I think the audience, the jury is still out on who picked which to watch and view, right?
11:33So, yes, you're right.
11:34You're very fair in asking questions to the media and I think it's okay to do that.
11:37We should have a healthy conversation about it after all.
11:39You are all Bengalurians here.
11:42If the youth in Bengaluru were to get together for one cause,
11:45what do you think we need that cause should be?
11:47Sorry, can you repeat that?
11:48If the youth in Bengaluru had to get together to change one thing about the city for one cause,
11:52what do you think that should be?
11:55The entitlement that people have nowadays when they come here to work and they feel entitled to question the city,
12:02I think that should reduce.
12:03Outsiders?
12:04Outsiders, see, if you take historically, I'm also technically outsider.
12:08I am fourth gen outsider, but I was born here.
12:12This is my home.
12:12But if you are coming here, you are a guest here, don't be that loud and don't be that loud
12:17in a language that you are entitled to.
12:20And how we go outside, like for example, if we have to go to Germany to learn, to work, you
12:25have to learn the language, little bit at least.
12:27So if you are going to another state to, you know, work, the least you can do is learn a
12:31little bit and then go.
12:32I think they should make it mandatory from the office itself that if you are going to go work there,
12:36learn the language and then you get a seat.
12:38Wow, that's a strong, strong step.
12:40I mean, it's basic requirement.
12:41You guys agree that that should be the need?
12:43That everyone should know Kannada?
12:44Nasser?
12:47I can't speak because I don't really know Kannada that well.
12:50I know enough to communicate as much as possible.
12:54To catch an auto.
12:55Yeah, like whatever it is.
12:56But I find that, you know, I get into a cab, true story, I'll get into a cab and the
13:03cab driver will speak to me in Hindi.
13:06And I'll say something in Kannada to him.
13:08And suddenly he just goes, you know, and he's like, sir.
13:12And he's like, oh, you don't look like you're from here and stuff.
13:16And I'd say a little white lie saying like, no, I just moved here.
13:20And I'm learning Kannada.
13:22But like that one minute conversation is enough to make the environment so easy, you know.
13:30Instead of saying like, no, I don't speak Kannada.
13:33Or I don't want to speak Kannada.
13:35Because there are a lot of videos that suggest that, you know, auto drivers, cab drivers aren't very welcoming.
13:39They're saying speaking Kannada or get out.
13:41No, but yeah, I think that was something that was in the past.
13:44Now I feel like they've become a lot more welcoming from what I see, at least from my perspective.
13:51But I think it's a two-way street.
13:53I think we both, the people from Karnataka and the people from outside, like he said, we're both outsiders.
14:00But we're both by heart Bengaluru, right?
14:03We know that we're from here because we've been here since we were born.
14:06So we still feel like we are Bengaluru, right?
14:11And we, there is that little bit of, take a little bit of effort.
14:16Just a little bit of effort.
14:17Yeah, like be respectful enough to at least make the effort.
14:21Yeah.
14:21So is the question then, therefore, in Bangalore is very often, Samyukta, are the people too accommodating?
14:29You know, are you too welcome to the extent that, you know, you're like, okay, you don't know the language,
14:34it's fine.
14:34And now suddenly everyone's waking up to it.
14:37I think we were like that, which is why we are here today with these issues.
14:42And we've let a lot of people walk all over us.
14:47And that's why there is this conflict that's there and this sudden aggression towards others.
14:56Because be it with Infosys or all these IT spaces we have and we've accommodated a lot of people.
15:03And we've learned multiple languages from auto drivers, taxi divers to restaurants, right?
15:09But that wasn't reciprocated, which is why there's a lot of frustration and anger right now.
15:15And I think because they put up a fight, I think people are trying to care for their environment, for
15:22other people around.
15:23And I think that's why slowly things are changing.
15:26And that's why the whole non-Kanadiga, non-Kanadati, even the rap songs that have come out,
15:30it's so much about Kannada because it took a little bit of effort from Kannadigas to actually get that respect
15:39back.
15:40It's been a bit of a wake-up call.
15:41It was sort of like that.
15:42It happened about a year back.
15:43And I think things are way better now.
15:45People are learning Kannada.
15:46Non-Kanada gottu.
15:48Wherever you go, you have people teaching Kannada to people.
15:51And I think that's a very interesting thing to do.
15:53It's what is required to be like kinder to the place you're living in, right?
15:57You know, every conversation we've had about Bangalore, Pranita, is the city's expanding.
16:01The city's expanding.
16:02More and more people are coming in.
16:05You know, it's a city that's struggling right now with the population that it has.
16:10Sometimes you kind of feel that, you know, we should just stop that.
16:13Stop the inflow of people.
16:15I'm sure that's not possible.
16:17But Bangalore has always been known as the Silicon Valley of the country, the tech capital.
16:24And like you said, we have been very welcoming, which is also a great thing.
16:28I think if you look at it on a positive note, we have so much talent, entrepreneurial talent,
16:35and, you know, tech brains coming from all across the country to our city.
16:40And that's only improving the city in every way.
16:43So the more they come, the more companies are coming.
16:46And that leads to more infrastructure, more real estate, more of everything.
16:50And that's only moving towards development.
16:54And I don't see it as a problem.
16:57But what I see as a problem is the disrespect for sure.
17:01Because I think when we go to, when I was working in Tamil Nadu or in Chennai,
17:05or when I was working in Andhra, I managed to learn the whole language.
17:09And I think we as Bangaloreans are so warm, welcoming, accommodative, and inclusive.
17:16And that's not something I see in the, you know, whether, in people who are coming in here.
17:23Only because, yeah, it's taken for granted.
17:25And also it's because, like I said, we're so inclusive and warm that we're happy to learn Hindi
17:29for someone who came from the north.
17:30We're happy to learn Malayalam, Tamil, whichever language you speak to me in,
17:36I'll speak back in the same language because we're very cosmopolitan.
17:40We seem to be very accommodative towards everyone.
17:42And I think that's where a little boundary should be drawn so that, you know,
17:48they respect our language.
17:49And unfortunately, it has come out in the wrong way with auto drivers protesting and those videos.
17:57Or anywhere, anywhere there's a growl.
17:59I think the locals suddenly think that's a point, that's a hook they're using and saying,
18:05oh, you're not from here and I'm going to use that as a hook against you.
18:09So instead of that being the case, there should be other ways to have people respect our language
18:14and culture and our movies.
18:17And, yeah, that will be lovely.
18:19Now, sir, let me flip that around and ask, you know, the reason Bengaluru has this reputation
18:24across the country is because it's so accepting of other cultures, of other languages.
18:29That's perhaps what defines the city also, that it's a cosmo city.
18:33That's not such a bad thing, is it?
18:34I mean, it's great because that's what helps even the boom that you see of stand-up comedy
18:39in Bengaluru, that everyone can come here, have a good time.
18:42You're accepting of every possible culture and tradition.
18:45Can both go hand in hand?
18:47Yeah, no, definitely.
18:48Bangalore is an amazing place.
18:51It's grown so much from when we were kids to the point where, like, everyone, you know,
18:58there's this thing that everyone's like, oh, once you get to a certain level of fame,
19:04you have to move to Mumbai.
19:06You know what I mean?
19:07There's this, like, this thing that we've constantly had in our lives where they're like,
19:12come to Mumbai, come to Mumbai.
19:13But we were like, why?
19:15You know, Bangalore has it all.
19:17Bangalore can do it all.
19:18So we stayed.
19:19And a very few percentage of the people who, quote-unquote, made it stayed.
19:26Everyone else were just like, yeah, everything else, all the agencies are there, the money's
19:30better, this and that.
19:32But I disagree with that because it is, like you said, it's a welcoming place.
19:36It's an amazing everything, weather and this and that, of course.
19:40But apart from that, it's just, why can't we stay home and do our thing?
19:48I think the definition then becomes of a regional artist.
19:52And you go into Mumbai, you become national.
19:55Yeah, that's what we're trying to break.
19:58You know, we're not a South Indian YouTube channel.
20:04We're an Indian YouTube channel.
20:05You know?
20:07I'm going to throw up a scenario, Vinit.
20:09If I were to give you a hundred crores to transform Bangalore.
20:14Let's go.
20:14No, to transform Bangalore.
20:16A hundred crores, yes, you have my attention.
20:18Oh, you're making a thousand crores.
20:19Okay.
20:20Thousand crores, to do one big change or transform Bangalore, what would it be?
20:24What would you do besides pocketing it?
20:27See, I'm not going to sit and pretend I know what it feels like to be in charge of thousand
20:31crores.
20:32But I think we have the right kind of people in place.
20:36And now...
20:37You think so?
20:38As in right now, if there's anyone who understands infrastructure, that person is in place and
20:45I can't wait to see what they're going to do and how they're going to develop.
20:50And I personally, and when I say I, we've had this conversation, can see the changes already.
20:56Small changes that were not there before, we can see now.
20:59What do you mean?
20:59If you could tell us.
21:00For example, there was one road that was not fixed for three years.
21:04In the last three weeks, it's got fixed.
21:07Now, what changed?
21:08I don't know.
21:08Road changed.
21:09Now, you make what you want of that.
21:11Okay.
21:11What I'm saying is, it doesn't matter whether you're left, right, center, whether you care,
21:16don't care.
21:17There shouldn't be any excuse for basic needs not being met.
21:21Now, if I can figure that out in thousand crores.
21:23Actually, if I can figure that out in five hundred crores and the other five hundred,
21:26we can split it amongst ourselves.
21:28Why not?
21:28I mean...
21:29That's why I said no pocketing it.
21:31No.
21:32Then you're like a politician.
21:32Split it amongst ourselves, meaning we'll give it to you, you'll give it to some charity.
21:35Why do you want to give it?
21:37Otherwise, you'll be like a politician only.
21:39Exactly.
21:39I guess so.
21:41Samyakta, what do you think?
21:42You know, of this current regime and the steps they're taking to transform Bangalore,
21:47there's a lot of talk.
21:48Right.
21:49Right?
21:49They keep saying they want to do this and that, but clearly the reason that we talk of
21:52Bangalore's traffic everywhere, you know, where I live currently in Delhi,
21:56the immediate reputation was Bangalore, traffic, traffic all the time, all of that.
22:00The reason that reputation has also come is because of decades of doing nothing.
22:04Right?
22:05I mean, people are all moving to Bangalore and then you have no infrastructure at all for
22:08that.
22:09Do you see finally something happening?
22:11Like Vineet said, one road was fixed.
22:13Like Vineet said, there has been some change with the waste management.
22:17This month, August, it started the whole waste management cleaning or the footpath,
22:22sort of the vendors also getting a space to do, you know, their work elsewhere, delegating
22:29different spaces for people on the road.
22:32All of this has started.
22:33But more than that, I think RCMDK Shulkumar, sir, has been a strategist, a businessman.
22:40Uh, and he came from nothing, right?
22:44You see that journey of, uh, how he's sort of been here and, um, he's been a part of
22:52infrastructure in a lot of things.
22:54I think even today you had a conversation for an hour about infrastructure with him.
22:57So there is a plan and you can only hope for the best.
23:01And I am seeing small changes happen.
23:04And I also think with the whole AI that they want to improve, uh, the space for entrepreneurs,
23:10a lot of other things, including commute, has changed.
23:13It's slowly changing.
23:15And, um, I, uh, run a foundation for animals and I think this AI technology or even AI for
23:21traffic, all of this is a very important thing that they have sort of spoken about.
23:25Because here's, here's also the question that constantly comes up, right?
23:28That with the development of Bangalore, some of the green cover of the city is going to
23:32go away.
23:32That's also true.
23:33Yeah.
23:33Which is where if you give me 500 crores, I would do.
23:37I only need one.
23:38Now it's with you.
23:39We need to have that money.
23:40I would really make sure that the conservation, I think our forest is right here, Banargata,
23:46uh, forest.
23:47And I think we need a lot of work to happen to reduce the human animal conflict.
23:51So for me, development is really not technology and the skyscrapers and all of these things.
23:57For me, development really is people caring for the environment.
24:01It can go hand in hand.
24:03Uh, thousand crores you're giving him, like we can ask for more somewhere else.
24:07And I think both can happen simultaneously, right?
24:10Uh, we can have urban wildlife.
24:12We can build forests in the city as well.
24:14So I think if money goes into that, it's, it's going to be Bangalore in every way.
24:20You just spoke about Delhi, by the way, be it traffic, be it pollution, be it anything.
24:25They're lagging behind it everywhere.
24:27I'm so sorry.
24:28Uh, so I, I'll never leave Bangalore, by the way, because we've got everything here and
24:34I want to stay here and make this place more home for more people and animals.
24:39But I have to ask, Pranita, what does a daily commute look like?
24:43How much time does it take you to go anywhere?
24:46To the airport?
24:48To the airport?
24:49Be honest.
24:50A good one and a half hours in traffic.
24:52But I think that's the thing about now they're coming up with micro markets, right?
24:57Where everything you need is around you and you sort of sort your life around your house.
25:04Travel much.
25:05Like whether it's the gym, the school and everything.
25:07So that's not too much of a problem, I guess.
25:10Okay.
25:10So you're saying that, you know, you guys paint a very rosy picture of Bangalore.
25:14I must say this.
25:15Not at all, honestly.
25:16I mean, there is some ugly, right?
25:17We're comparing it to Chennai and Delhi, that's why.
25:20You're comparing it to Chennai and Delhi.
25:21See, I'm a Chennai girl.
25:22That's why I said that.
25:23Now, now you're touching a raw nerve.
25:25But no, but I'm sure there's some ugly that...
25:27Yeah, it's not all sunshine and rainbows.
25:30There's a lot of times where we're just like frustrated as well.
25:33But like Beep said, like we're hoping for the best touchwood.
25:37Everything will, you know, start getting better.
25:42We always hope for the best.
25:45And you forgot to ask me what I would do with the thousand crores.
25:48Oh, sorry.
25:50I think there are a lot of private companies that could do a lot of good.
25:54Why not give it to them to fix things, you know, instead of...
26:00Yeah.
26:01Yeah, like there's a company called Jordan Dean.
26:03If you'll ever want to give a thousand crores, I mean, we are open to it.
26:06But also, just to address the point that you're talking about in terms of Bengaluru,
26:10imagine Bengaluru being a cool party.
26:12Now everyone wants to be at this party.
26:14Now it's overcrowded.
26:15You can't blame the party.
26:17Wow.
26:18But then who will do something about it?
26:20Who is hosting the party?
26:21So those people have to, like what, shove garbage as they enter?
26:24No, first thing is, then you have to clear the floor.
26:27Yeah.
26:28Clear the tables, make more space on the dance floor, you know.
26:32Also...
26:32Tell the DJ to play more Kannada music.
26:34Exactly.
26:36No, but my point is, see, what is it all coming back to?
26:39Okay, there are these people who are entering the city.
26:42They are making the city worse.
26:44No, no.
26:44Not at all.
26:45No, no, no, no, no, no.
26:45Our city is the best.
26:46No, no, no, no, no, no.
26:46What he's saying is, they're throwing waste and there's garbage.
26:50You have to clean the waste.
26:52No, you have to clean everyone.
26:52We are also...
26:52Everyone's throwing waste.
26:54Everyone's throwing waste.
26:54Everyone's throwing waste.
26:55Everyone's throwing waste.
26:55Everyone's throwing waste.
26:56See, now one second.
26:58Why...
26:58You said you're a Chennai girl, right?
26:59Why does Chennai not have this problem?
27:01Because not many people want to work there because climate is not good.
27:04Let's say that's one of the examples.
27:05I'm just saying.
27:07Assumption, assumption.
27:08No, no, no.
27:08It's full of assumptions.
27:08I'm just saying.
27:09I said, I'm just saying.
27:10Okay, they don't want to work there for A, B, C, D reason.
27:13Here, they want to work because of A, B, C, D reason.
27:15The reasons are stacked up against us.
27:18Our home only is at fault.
27:20But we have to also understand what that fault is and figure out from a grassroot level.
27:25Now, that grassroot level is only we said, now only one road is fixed.
27:28We'll see.
27:30One road is fixed.
27:31One road is fixed.
27:32It's better than having no roads fixed.
27:33That's all I'm saying.
27:34I agree.
27:34One better than none, right?
27:36See.
27:36Is this the positive attitude that every Bangalorean should have as per the government?
27:40Every Bangalorean has it except every Bangalorean is only 40%.
27:43The rest 60% complains.
27:47This is too much outsider bashing.
27:49No.
27:50See, if you're going to call spade a spade, then you have to say certain facts the way it
27:54is.
27:54Just because we say, for example, my dad will not like the food at home, but he won't like
28:01the food outside also.
28:02Now, what's the solution for that?
28:05It's not rational.
28:07Same way, a lot of the arguments that we do is not rational.
28:10But can it be rationalized?
28:12Even I'm part of the problem.
28:13I don't know.
28:13You tell me.
28:14Can it be rationalized?
28:15Can you give me one reason where it won't be polarized?
28:18I'll think about it and let you know the end of the series.
28:20I have two minutes on the clock to do that.
28:23Pranita, what do you think is ultimately the one...
28:26You've traveled a lot, of course.
28:28So, what makes Bangalore stand out the most for you?
28:31It's home.
28:32So, undoubtedly, it's the best place to be.
28:34No, so if you had to sell Bangalore to someone.
28:36I know you don't want more people rushing into the city.
28:38No, best weather, warm people.
28:41I'm from South Bangalore.
28:43That makes it all the more warm.
28:44You know how people in South Bangalore are Jainagar.
28:46We're just very, very...
28:48We're just sorted with the lives we have.
28:50And we're not dreaming of big malls or big anything.
28:54We just want our parks, our basic infrastructure and cleanliness.
28:58And I think that's what Bangalore gives you.
29:01And it gives you diversity like you want.
29:03Like you said, you can be from anywhere and find a pocket in Bangalore where you fit in.
29:08Or whether you want a gated community that looks like America, that's there.
29:13Whatever you want.
29:14I think real estate-wise, we're sorted.
29:17Everything, the diversity, the...
29:20In every way.
29:22Careers and...
29:23Yeah.
29:24You said we have only two minutes.
29:25I'll say one last point, okay?
29:28Now, you...
29:29Where did you say you're from?
29:31Chennai.
29:31Madras.
29:31Now, stop, stop.
29:33Become like a little...
29:35No, no, wait.
29:35What I'm saying is, from that time, we've been saying Bangalore, Bangalore.
29:38It is Bengaluru.
29:39We changed it.
29:40That one small change we couldn't make, calling it Bengaluru.
29:43Now, if I said Madras, you would be like, hey, it's called Chennai, correct?
29:46No, no, I'm very happy with Madras.
29:47But we are not happy with it being Bengaluru.
29:49Bengaluru.
29:50Small changes.
29:51We'll start with it.
29:51Okay, Bengaluru.
29:52Bengaluru it is.
29:53Bengaluru.
29:53Right?
29:54Happy?
29:54Happy.
29:55Okay.
29:55Samyukta,
29:56in Bengaluru, I think one of the other questions, you see a lot of videos of this as well, that
30:01road rage is increased in the city.
30:03Is that true?
30:04I think violence...
30:05That people are angrier in the city now?
30:06No, yeah, yeah, they are.
30:07Because of the traffic, because of the potholes.
30:10We pay the highest road tax, and our roads are shit.
30:15It is very, very bad.
30:16Okay?
30:17So, of course, there's going to be frustration about it.
30:21But the violence everywhere is increasing.
30:23People want to reach wherever, be it in life, be it on the road, the destination, faster,
30:29across the country.
30:30So, I think violence towards people, towards themselves, towards animals, everything in
30:36the country has increased a lot.
30:37That comes from all kinds of other, this fast-track life that we want to live.
30:41We want to get there.
30:43We want to achieve things way faster.
30:45We have no patience.
30:45There's a lot of pressure.
30:46Yeah, there's a lot of pressure.
30:47And especially in Bangalore, I think...
30:50I also think this is an important question.
30:53Bengaluru...
30:53No, no.
30:53She's catering to you.
30:54We cater to outsiders.
30:56Thanks, ma'am.
30:57See, we...
30:57See, Bangaloreans, no?
30:58Bengaluru, we have each other's back like this.
31:00Yeah, it's true.
31:01Yeah, yeah.
31:02Just alienate the channel right here.
31:03I think the biggest problem right now in, like, youth of Bengaluru is the unemployment.
31:11People don't have a job.
31:12And when they do get their job, even if you pay them one lakh, the way the revenue, the
31:16real estate, the rent is increasing, they really don't have money to sort of survive.
31:23Like, to save up, I mean.
31:25Even with a lakh, I'm saying.
31:27There are a lot of people who are not getting paid so much.
31:29So, of course, the frustration is there.
31:31I don't know if in my life I can buy an agriculture land, the way the rates are going up.
31:37So, imagine the ones who are unemployed who are just out of work and AI replacing so many
31:41of their jobs.
31:42So, I think the frustration, they don't know where to take it out.
31:45And it does come out on the streets, which is why it's important to listen to the youth
31:49right now.
31:50And, yeah.
31:52Is Bengaluru angrier, Narsar?
31:54Yes.
31:55Very angry.
31:57I see it all the time.
31:58Lots of road rage.
31:59Uh, I've been part of it as well sometimes.
32:02But then I, uh, I noticed something.
32:06Right?
32:07If somebody comes at you, uh, with a lot of rage, you can confuse them by just smiling
32:14back.
32:15And then they don't know what to do.
32:17So, and, and sometimes, uh, I noticed instead of this, because this is, this sign is crazy.
32:24Right?
32:25Anywhere on the road, if you just do this to someone, it's over.
32:29Right?
32:29They want to stop in the middle of the road.
32:31They want to get out of their cars.
32:32They want to make a full show out of it, which then contributes to the long traffic lines.
32:38So, I've noticed, and he's seen it as well, like where I'm so pissed at someone that cut
32:43me off, but instead of this, I'll just go, you know, and that guy's just like, okay.
32:51So, it's just a small little thing that, that you can do, even if you're feeling a certain
32:57way inside, even if you just, just smile at them, they get confused.
33:00And then they're just like, wait, I, I wanted to fight, but now he's smiling, you know, sometimes
33:07I'd even blow a kiss, you know, I'll just be like, like that in a very like cute way.
33:12And they're so confused.
33:13They don't know what to do.
33:14They're just like, and then they just stop.
33:16And then you can, you know, neutralize the whole situation.
33:20Everything's fine.
33:21Go about your day.
33:22Then you can go home in the shower and rage.
33:24That's how Nasana and I met.
33:28Yeah, I wish I had that Zen too.
33:30I don't think I have it in me, but I'll try it.
33:33Last one, we need to you.
33:34If there's one cliche about Bengaluru that you want addressed, what is it?
33:41It's a city where old people come to retire.
33:46I was talking to someone from Mumbai.
33:48I lived in Mumbai for five years and I went to meet that person and I said, oh, you should,
33:52you should come, you should settle in, you know, back home is a great place.
33:56Bengaluru welcomes you and stuff like that.
33:59And he just blatantly said, I'm not 60 yet.
34:01When I'm 60, I'll come settle over there.
34:02I was like, what do you mean?
34:03It's like, that's where old people go to like retire.
34:05I'm like, since when?
34:07I mean, I didn't want to go with the weather thing because that's, that's a cliche of a cliche.
34:11But the weather though.
34:12But the weather though.
34:13The weather though.
34:14The weather though.
34:14The weather.
34:16The weather though.
34:17I agree.
34:17It's amazing.
34:18I was here yesterday.
34:20I was like, damn, this should be the weather in Chennai.
34:21It's not.
34:22Yeah.
34:23God is kind to good people.
34:24Sister, it's a trial.
34:27Hey man, I'm just kidding.
34:29We are comedians at the end of the day.
34:30Don't come after us, please.
34:31Ouch.
34:33It's one of life's greatest tragedies.
34:35But thank you so much.
34:36Our time is up.
34:36Thank you so much for joining us here at the India Today Roundtable.
34:39A big round of applause.