A man amidst men

This morning in my local daily I was perusing an article which revealed a specific man's greatness about whom i have read multiple times over years now.He imbibed in me the visual of how ideal can a man actually be.This specific write-up throws light on some extreme loyalty & might sound ridiculously inapplicable in the century that we live.Humourous but mildly thought provoking was this amplified extract on a man amidst men.

' After killing Ravana, Lord Rama is resting on a rock. He notices a shadow approaching him. He realises that the shadow is that of a woman. He does not lift His eyes to see who it is, for, Lord Rama never looks at any woman other than Sita. As the shadow nears Him, Lord Rama pulls His feet up, and sits with His legs folded. This is to avoid even the shadow of the unknown woman touching His feet. So careful is He that none other than His wife should touch Him.

The shadow is then seen to recede. Lord Rama wonders who it is, who had come so close to Him and had yet retreated. So He enquires who the person is.

The shadow is that of Mandodari, and she discloses who she is. Lord Rama asks her why she is there. She says she heard that Ravana was killed in battle. Ravana had been a king who had struck fear in the hearts of his enemies. Everyone believed him to be invincible. And yet, he had been killed by someone. She had come to the battlefield to look at the man who killed her husband. She wanted to know what quality He had that her husband did not have. Lord Rama then asks her whether she found what that quality was. Mandodari says she has found that quality. Lord Rama is particular that even the shadow of a woman other than his wife should not touch Him. Ravana, on the other hand, was willing to sacrifice so many lives in his attempt at making another man's wife his. Therein lies the difference. That one quality of Lord Rama has led to His victory, says Mandodari.

Ravana's sin had been so heinous that he had been slain. There was right on the side of Lord Rama. And He was an exception among men. There may be men outwardly loyal to their wives, but their thoughts may go astray.

Lord Rama was the one whose thoughts and words never went astray. When Sita is lost, and Lord Rama sees Her jewels strewn about, He mentions each piece of jewellery and laments the loss of His wife. To Lord Rama, Sita is irreplaceable.'

A puzzling correlation

Am not sure if sri Kempe Gowda & sir Thomas Stamford Raffles would ever agree with all the puzzling correlation am trying to make here between the cities they were associated with,if they both were alive today : ).Kempe Gowda whom i believe to be the modern architect of the city where I live currently lacked a greater visualization in terms of even laying the building blocks of this surprise city's infrastructure.Yes,itz Bangalore that am referring to.On the other hand sir Thomas Stamford Raffles spotted lion city's potential as a strategic trading post for Southeast Asia way back in 1819.May be at this point you might just be thinking, I shouldn't have visited city 2 from city1 in the first place.But that wasn't in my hands.

After i visited Lion City way back in 2006,being popularly referred as a city-state, my mind drew this analogy from no where.Both Bangalore & Singapore flaunts almost the same geographically inhabitant area of 709.5 square kms & 710.2 square kms respectively & a population of approximately 50,000,00 people each.Both are equally growing & inviting cities to people across the world on many fronts.

With the above 3 strikingly similar facts between these two cities,after my first return trip i asked some responsible fellow folks around me why was Lion City such a heaven & Bangalore such a broken city ?.Lion city is a beautiful example of an organised city in the world.Where as Bangalore can be listed right against it for such an in disciplined Infrastructure Management stuff.When i say Bangalore, i inturn refer to any other similar Indian city.Step in to both once & you wouldn't disagree with me in any regard.After all what do i mean by referring a place outside my country as heaven ?

#1 -The city's Airport was stunning in terms of how it functioned,how it was built & especially the way it was maintained.Above all the time they took to add a new terminal & make it full functional without any hassel to the public.
#2 - You look for a mode of transport to reach ur destination in the city.The way in which all the public mode of transport functions,the way the people operate them & how affordable is it to people matters a lot.Above all the wholesome experience of commuting by a public mode of trasport.
#3-The roads,not one but everyroad was well laid without any pothole,all spick & span,well organised routing from one point to another with sufficient number of transport services.Though there are many to list,let me stop with these here.

Initially it was very easy to prompt this question.In someway till today it is to me.In course of time i realised this is no objective question which can be replied in one word or a statement.I do understand today that an enormous amount of reasons go in to making all the indifferences that exists.Ok but can i ask Having identified the problem or rather the reason behind the strikingly dissimilar situation with some strikingly similar fundamental factors,why can't we do an error correction or whatz stopping us from doing this error correction at this point ? .This time my folks were allowed to answer short & to the point.

My Dad -My child,Rome was not built in a day.Similarly itz not an easy task to rearrange the already existing infrastructure of a fully functional city like Bangalore.
My Mentor - We don't have a very civilized population who can co-operate effectively even if such a plan is chalked out to implement.
My Friend -Until we uproot corruption in a country like India,we shouldn't be dreaming about things u said.
My Manager - All that you are expecting to happen are happening here as well but on a micro level that you don't feel the change.
My Cousin -If we have powerful leaders consistently,such planning & execution is highly possible even with less time.
My Landlord-Execution of an effective micro administrative design should help ma.
My TeamMate -Y don't you relocate to ur heaven to do much better things in life.
My Neighbour -'A place for everything,everything in itz place'.In the case of our country,since there was no place for everthing then, now we don't have place for anything new.

This time too,all suggestions & solutions seemed to be right but when are we going to jumpstart to change things around ? Or rather should i be asking Don't we really intend to change things at all? At the end i realised that i was trying to correlate a puzzle here. While all i could do was just a simple correlation rather than itz complex cracking : (