Going back to its history, Bangalore reveals several secrets
of its existence in today’s world. Bangalore in the first glance appears just like any other metro city with its fast
moving life and its huge sky scrappers. But Bangalore under its superficial
shell of urbanization, has a more traditional side to it, a side more connected
to its roots. How just a small town built by Kempe Gowda, comes a long way from
being called Bengaluru to Bangalore is an interesting story in itself, about
his fate from being born into a chiefly family in a small town of Yelakanda or
Yelahanka as its known today, to raising a whole new fortress town of his own,
which today is a home to 8,425,970 people.
Getting to know the history itself
changes the way you look at the city, How
for instance the place you live in totally had a different identity in the
past. The feeling of it having seen several generations, and how despite of you
finding it your own, it contradicts with the fact of how you are just a phase that the city is seeing and sooner or later you will become the past too.
Bangalore today after being through years of transformation
has come a long way shedding its conservative ideas and being called “The City
of Boiled Beans” or “The Pensioner’s Paradise”
to becoming “The Silicon Valley” of India.
But no matter how much Bangalore changes, It still in some
ways makes it a point to not to forget its roots, the traces of the past can
been seen even decades later. For instance in the 1970s, silk was the major
production in textiles by the Banajigas,
and even today in the 21st century silk stays on the top of
the hierarchy in textile productions in Bangalore. This duality of Bangalore is due to the
people in it. On one side where the cosmopolitan crowd, the white collared.
keep the city thriving for constant change and success, the other side of them still clings
on to the past.
Privatization changed the face of Bangalore, The once calm
and a little laid back Bangalore, was now open for the world to hog on. With MNCs
rushing in trying to make the most out of the brain and labor available,
lifestyles started changing, and though people led a rather higher standard of
living, and could afford the luxuries of life, Stress is something which
started setting in, the long hours of work, and the pressure of being under
constant surveillance lead to a breakdown every now and then, thus making
people resort to all sorts of addictions and sometimes even drug abuse. Thus
even though it had it perks, it eventually made you realize that every coin has
two sides.
To conclude Bangalore what it is today is because of its
people. Whether its the young Kempe
Gowda placing the initial bricks of this small fortress town, or the people
today thriving hard individually to make the two ends meet in their families or
as a whole helping the economy grow. Bangalore has come a long way today shedding
the unnecessary and constantly changing keeping up with the world pace, Yet it
still does not forget its past,
In the becoming of Bangalore it does not forget
Bengaluru.
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