Correction. Bangalore used to look and feel great till the mid 90s. It went to the dogs thereafter after a decade and half of rapid, unplanned and unsustainable expansion and urbanization owing to the IT boom. What we have now is a city that is forever in the throes of extreme discomfort to it's citizens over trying to create an infrastructure that can somehow match the population at hand.
btw, that aerial shot of the Vidhana Soudha is quite an old one. This is how it looked in 2011. This is pretty much how it still looks, as Metro work hasn't finished yet there.