Don't disagree with your point that attitude of Delhi people is a problem.
But these facts you can't deny , Mumbai is dirtier , yes it is more densely populated but you can't say that Mumbai people have cleaner habits than Delhiites.
They actually do. For example, even from eateries in the small dhaba like hotels, one never falls ill in Mumbai even in rainy season while in Delhi, you get the proverbial Delhi belly quite easily.
Mumbaikars are much more systematic, organized and at least the urban class don't dirty the roads at the rate at which dilliwalas do.
I've been a dilliwala by residence and have noticed this many times on my travel to Mumbai, mate.
Nothing offensive or comparative but Delhiites could seriously improve their attitude.
My relatives during my student life, who'd visit from Sikkim, would be shocked everytime they came to Delhi about the mentality of people. Forget NE Indians, even people from your own northern cities like Chandigarh say that Delhiites are mannerless, have huge attitude problems and no sense of public cleanliness.
Secondly , when I said Delhiites are taking the problem seriously , I meant the protestors who were all Delhiites mostly not the police. Are you telling me those thousands of protestors were not Delhiites ?
They are. But it took such a horrific incident like that girl Nirbhaya's case to wake them up.
Even now, nothing significant is being done.
Btw, most lower level cops in Delhi are not from Delhi but from rural areas of neighbouring states.
So you're telling me that Mumbaikar cops are all Marathis? Many of them are not; but their attitude is much better than Delhi.
Rural Haryana or not, attitude should be according to a standard as a public service officer.
The vandal attitude in Delhi is a direct reflection of the pathetic Haryanavi nature that is present in Gurgaon and other adjoining areas.
They don't want to improve.
But the Delhi administration (not Sheila but the officers in charge under her) should take the initiative.
Delhi civil society is taking the rape problem much more seriously then any other city.
And what has it done to stop the assaults?
True this is a pan-India problem of rape crisis but in Delhi there is a big big problem and things will get worse if Delhiites don't change their mentality soon.
As the national capital, it is setting a very bad precedent.
Rape again in Mumbai: Four-year-old raped in school bus by cleaner
I didn't see any outrage in Mumbai after this ^^^ incident.
Also all the foreign women rapes happened in cities which are not Delhi including the Scarlett Keeling murder case which happened in Goa.
The latest Irish woman rape happened in Kolkata.
The recent Swiss woman rape case was in Madhya Pradesh.
The recent American woman gang rape was in Himachal Pradesh by 3 Nepalese truckers.
It is cases like those that give India a far worse name.
You also can't deny that Delhi gets special media attention which other cities don't get.
As I said, I agree with you that it is a pan-national problem. But Delhi is the nerve centre of the country's administration. Globally people expect some standards to be met including the denizens of Delhi themselves.
How can that be done until people reform?
Yes , there is an attitude problem in many Delhiites. I have to live with it everyday so I know.
But there is also a hidden complex that people have against Delhi. What else could be the reason that a thread that has nothing to do with Delhi turns to Delhi bashing for no reason.
I don't know man.
But trust me, most people who are not from Delhi, who visit the city, do complain about the city.
Infrastructure's progress is an obvious expected because of its status as the capital. That's not even worth discussing, mate.
I have heard a lot of this which is why I am telling you.
Complex may be there or may not be there that may be upto individual persons.
That we can say if someone comes from remote and under-developed areas like many smaller cities of UP, Silchar, Chhattisgarh etc.
But what about criticism from people living in equally or even better cities like Chandigarh, Mumbai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad etc?
They cannot have a complex.
I am talking purely in the terms of attitude overall as well as cleanliness in general. I also like the city man. Spent my childhood there.
Delhi is a good city by foundation but because of the wrong attitude of people, the city is getting a wrong name