A candid chat with Mindtree 's Chairman Subroto Bagchi on what makes Bengaluru a favourite city.Many things come together to make Bengaluru who she is. But let me share something that most of us, most of the time, take for granted: it is the Kannadiga people's sagacity to let their city and sometimes their identity to be taken over. This wouldn't have happened anywhere else in India. The Kannadiga people are the paradigm of tolerance. It is in short supply everywhere else. We often think that it is a sign of being laid back; make no mistake, it is the higher power. Software, by its very name, is a very soft thing. It cannot flourish in hard soil, hard minds and closed hearts. The gentleness of the Kannadiga people, their ability to let the world come and stay here, was to one day, add a new word in the global lexicon: famously uttered by Barack Obama who cautioned his country that they risked being Bangalored.Seeing the city stir as I set out to work when I must leave home at 7 am from Whitefield to beat the traffic on my way to Mindtree's Mysore Road campus. At least, once in every two months, eating Anju's sabudana vada and akki roti before watching a play at Ranga Shankara with my wife Susmita. Waiting yearlong for the jacaranda blooms. Seeing Cubbon Park in rain from VG Siddhratha's office. Listening to rag-picker Mansoor tell me that life is exploding with opportunities and that he is here to make a difference. Watching the roadside street vendors do business and know that microfinance, solar power and women will save the world. Reading the hilarious shop signboards when my driver Raju is negotiating traffic. Kneeling down in the sparse chapel at Mother Teresa's Sishu Bhavan in a moment of silence and gratitude and non-asking.Listening to the captain of my flight announce, 'ladies and gentlemen, we have just started our descent into Bengaluru'.We must value freedom over happiness. That is what life is all about.Bengaluru must always remain a land of free people.Narayana Murthy (Infosys co-founder). He symbolises my belief that ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things. He is the one who spoke about building an abundancemindset for the first time amongst all of us. He has a free, just and unafraid mind. He combines intellect and execution of a very high order. NRN is an institution-builder beyond just the construct and imagery of Infosys .India needs great institution-builders.Gangtok. Even though it isn't a city in the way we think of the term, and thank God for that! The entire state of Sikkim has 600,000 people. I have never been as enchanted by any other place in India. The hills there are dense and green, the rushing Teesta and the many Himalayan streams there, are translucent, and her people are gentle.