Bangalore
to me has always been a metropolitan city with varied cultures with
cosmopolitan crowd . But there was more to it. The morning presentations gave
me a whole new picture about Bangalore’s history and interesting facts about
how the name Bangalore came into being and how initially it was called ‘’ The
city of boiled beans.’’
Bangalore
has had a fascinating history, its association with Kempe Gowda, Tipu sultan,
Hyder Ali and Gangaraja. It being given various names like Benda-kalooru,
bangaluru. it was interesting to know how Hyder Ali and
Tipu Sultan constructed gardens in Bangalore. Hence u can see a lot of greenery
all over Bangalore hence also called as the “the city of gardens”.
The
architecture of Bangalore, specially the cantonment area is influenced by the
British. And how many of the avenues have an English name to them. Bangalore
has been highly influenced by the Britishers in terms of their language and
architecture. Bangalore one of the only cities which brings with it the sense belongingness as it
still preserves its heritage like the statues of the influential leaders like
queen Victoria. English was the major
language used then by the Anglo-Indian community in Bangalore. They played a
very important role in the history of Bangalore. They were the people who had
mixed Indian and British ancestry. There are still many Anglo-Indian in
Karnataka, mainly Bangalore who did not migrate to abroad. There were places
like koshy’s , the only place and thoms café where people went to have fancy food
like rice dumlings which we surprisingly get in every locality of Bangalore
today with the simple name idli .
Due to its green gardens, pleasant
climate and as a slow city a lot of people settled down in Bangalore hence it
was also called as the “pensioner’s paradise”. There has been a drastic boom in
the population in the past few years taking an account millions of migrations that happen every year,
bringing to this city diversity, culture and languages, thus making it multilinguistic.
Also from where it
takes the description the Silicon city
of India because of its
position as the nations leading Industry. The introduction of technology in Bangalore, led to the
development of the city as the IT Capital of India. Bangalore has become an
important IT sector in India. Companies like WIPRO and Infosys has flourished
over the years, making it 4th best in the world.
Bangalore from a pleasant place has
drastically changed into a city full of high rise buildings. For example –
where the MG road metro station stands was a place called Promenade where
people came for a stroll dressed in their best attire and how the place has
considerably changed.
The education system in Bangalore has
always been credible which attracted youth and I am fortunate to be one of them
and explore and know about the majestic city -Bangalore
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