India, Aug. 6 -- A Bengaluru-based cardiologist's take on the city's ongoing tug-of-war between its historic core and rapidly urbanised outer areas has sparked a fresh debate on social media.

Dr Deepak Krishnamurthy, a well-known voice on X, weighed in on the long-running banter surrounding Whitefield and other eastern Bengaluru neighbourhoods that are often trolled online for being too far removed from the city's older, culturally rich southern zones such as Jayanagar, Basavanagudi, and Malleswaram.

In his post, Dr Krishnamurthy, who has lived in Whitefield since 2004, described the area as self-sufficient and no different from Bengaluru's traditional hubs.

"The number of times I'd need to leave Whitefield in a month is almost zero. W...