Once green and vibrant, now a city of chaos: Man takes to LinkedIn to express Bengaluru’s decline

In a poetic obituary posted on LinkedIn by Vishnu Vardhan, former Executive Director at Morgan Stanley, the spirit of Bengaluru has been declared dead — not in a literal sense, but in soul and substance. In a post that has resonated widely, Vardhan’s eulogy is not just a lament — it is a scathing societal critique, a love letter, and a wake-up call rolled into one. Titled “Obituary Notice: Mother is Murdered”, the post uses the metaphor of a nurturing, giving and quietly enduring mother to personify Bengaluru — a city once synonymous with garden walks, filter coffee musings and a harmonious blend of intellect and intimacy. But in Vardhan’s rendition, this mother has died. Not suddenly, but slowly, silently — as her 1.6 crore children watched, unaware or perhaps unwilling to act. A green dream turned grey Bengaluru, once dubbed India’s “Garden City”, is now better known for its tech corridors, glass towers and gridlocked traffic. In Vardhan’s words, she was once “draped in green, cooled by soft winds & warmed by human connection.” But today, that pastoral promise has been replaced by “5 minutes of rain, 4 hours of gridlock,” and a suffocating urban sprawl. The city that
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