Thiyagarajan Maruthavanan
Met 2023-02-18 21:00 at ITC Gardenia, 1 Residency Rd, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Bangalore, India.Tamil, grew up in Delhi, school in Hyderabad, now living in Bangalore. Feels both North and South Indian.
Delhi: “Do you know who my father is?!” (because of the politicians)
Mumbai: “Do you know where I live?!” (because South Bombay is so rich)
Bangalore: “Do you know a front-end developer?”
Compared to Bangalore, Mumbai has more extremes of wealth and poverty next to each other.
In Mumbai, everyone is always pressed for time. Bangalore is more laid-back.
Bangalore is “live and let live” culture. Party people next to prayer people. Chennai meddles and judges.
Bangalore is so humble, it’s sometimes overplayed. Who can be more humble.
Good thing Bangalore has bad traffic otherwise everyone would move here.
Koramangala (“mangla”) is where all the startups are. He lives south of Electronic City.
We talked almost entirely about locations. Great stuff.