With the basic infrastructure problems of traffic and pollution, some longtime Bangaloreans may be tiring of the "Silicon Valley of India" boom taking place in their Garden City. Rising fuel prices, traffic, and wage inflation are noted in the India 2.0 Blog, which is hosted by the Washington Post.

The blog, by WaPo (not Wipro!) staff writer S. Mitra Kalita, just got added to my RSS subscriptions. I'm mildly irked with the Post's lack of direct comments on this blog. They opt for "Email a Comment" instead. Not so much with the free discussion of ideas, I see.

Varun Singh, a developer at Wipro, calls what is happening in Bangalore "the IT crush." He said he feels the ire of longtime residents, especially those not in his field.

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The IT and the non-IT folks find common ground on one thing: Neither side can wait for the proposed highways, the toll roads, the metro system. At a Barista coffee shop today, Mathew and Seema George sought shelter from the rain and sat sipping mugs of tea and coffee. The husband-and wife architect team said they cannot blame IT for the loss of the charming city they once knew, because it has also been responsible for the boom in their business designing homes and office spaces.

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