Early in 2016 two contrasting events occurred just a few days apart in Bengaluru. First, a public hearing on evictions in Karnataka was organized by the state-wide slum dwellers organization, Karnataka Slum Janara Sanghatanegala Okkoota. The second was the Global Investor’s Meet organized by the Karnataka state government, which rolled out a red carpet for the corporates of the world. While these events convey competing claims and visions of the city, I suggest that both events are different sides of the same coin. I link this string of events through an analysis of the different speeds of state bureaucracy. Analysing the multiplicity of state agencies involved and the deployment of information catering to different social spheres, this essay aims to depict the imperatives of ‘fast cities’ in an entrepreneurial region that is complicit with structural violence.