India, Aug. 10 -- A Pune-based techie's post criticising the city's traffic, infrastructure and public transport has sparked a discussion on social media, with several users agreeing that the city's quality of life has worsened in recent years.

In an X post, Ninaad Pai, who said he was born and raised in Pune and still owns houses there, wrote, "Pune has failed as a city" and added that it "genuinely hurts" him to say so.

"The traffic is pure, unending hell," Pai wrote, while criticising politicians and bureaucrats over what he described as repeated promises without solutions to the city's problems. He also took aim at the Pune police and traffic authorities, accusing them of focusing on social media posts while residents continue to st...