Are you seriously suggesting that there is no corruption in Pune? Or that people across the country who go to Pune automatically get better?

This is an endemic problem across India.

We need broader cultural changes. I don't think I will ever see them in my lifetime or even in the next few generations. And merely going to a different place where there is the same problem with same people is hardly going to address any issue.

Places like Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai etc or even private companies/MNC hardly solve(d) these issues. They just offered a bigger playground for such issues to come to play.

This is basically 'sarkari naukri', your old Indian government job all over again. Except that just with small time cosmetic changes.

You've clearly not experienced Marathi pride, then?

Some companies here have quite the reputation for being Maharashtrian strongholds where only locals are valued and promoted. And these aren't your tiny software shops; I'm talking machine-so-huge-you're-just-a-tiny-cog type companies.