India, April 29 -- In an earlier article, I had written how Bengaluru was the first city in Asia to get electrified, had a great PSU and college ecosystem. It was always a city with great potential. It was blessed by forward looking politicians. The first was probably M. Visvesvaraya, Dewan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918, the great engineering genius, who designed the KRS Dam that powered the Brindavan Gardens. Devaraj Urs, who became Chief Minister in 1972, had a goal of "having an electric bulb in every house", unheard of at that time. Urs filled his cabinet with technocrats and set up the famous Electronic City. He spearheaded land reforms and schemes for the backward classes. S Bangarappa in the early 1990s set the stage for Bengaluru to...