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Last Updated on December 18, 2025
Metro in Bengaluru is very fast. Unlike the hardly-moving traffic on the road, metro gets you from one end of the city to the other end of the city(43 Kms) in under 2 hours(challaghatta to kadugodi). Apparently metro is also known for other things. Click here to see a list of people who found a way to use the metro in a different way without buying a ticket.
I am not suggesting that you should use metro this way. In fact, you will, at least, see one security personnel on a platform telling people to move back and not fall off the platform onto metro line. Just like the ever increasing metro fare, suicide rate too in the city seems to be not coming down. I guess nothing is cheap in Bengaluru including mental health.
This speaks to the humanitarian attitude of bengaluru. It is not just the increasing rates of suicide in the city, they are other stories that question the moral aspect of the city.
Heart patient dies on road in Bengaluru after hospital allegedly denies ambulance, pleas for help ignored.
Eventually, her sister-in-law arrived at the spot and managed to request a cab driver, who took them to a nearby private hospital.
In this story, the hospital, whose main purpose is supposed to help people, has possibly been compromised by profits and efficiency. It is common sense to think that if they can do an ECG, they can definitely send an ambulance to Jayadev hospital unless an ambulance is not available at the moment. This begs the questions if hospital can’t provide the ambulance service, who will?
A cry for help from his wife:
“I cried and pleaded with every passerby, two-wheelers, cars and other vehicles for help,” she said, breaking down. “For nearly 10 minutes, no one stopped. If even one person had helped us, my husband might have been alive today.”
The city may be political capital of Karnataka or IT capital of India. But, is it also a humanitarian capital of Karnataka or India? that’s a wrong question to ask I guess….more appropriate question would be – is there at least some humanity left in the city that anyone in emergency time might get some help?
It is not easy to answer these questions. However, there are some baseline humanitarian attitude we expect from the citizens of Bengaluru. As far as I understand, one of the main purposes of any hospital is to offer help, especially medical assistance. I understand nothing is free, at the same time, not everything has to about money, especially at the cost of someone’s life.
