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Post by spindrift1 on May 24, 2013 21:34:57 GMT
I see that Fitness First (gym) is in Bangalore! It's all over UK as well.
You have a mild climate there, don't you? and that's why there are lots of flowers?
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2013 21:44:49 GMT
I don't want this thread to die now... Bangalore is a big city. I am confident that you still have a number of unusual things to show us!
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Post by anshjain97 on May 25, 2013 1:16:10 GMT
Cheers all.
Bixa, remember I PMed you the other day? Because I couldn't post my answer here due to some technical difficulties. Most of the colonial architecture hasn't been take care of well- poor maintenance. There was anyways little, because Bangalore wasn't much of an important city in those times.
I don't know if we have any pre colonial areas- most old areas seem to be more locally influenced; but there is pre-colonial architecture (such as Bangalore Palace and Tipu Sultan Palace).
There are many villages and rural areas near Bangalore- one near my school, and one near the airport, for instance. In fact two of Karnataka's (the state) districts are called Bangalore Urban and Bangalore Rural.
Spindrift, it is generally mild here by Indian standards, but can get warm with several days crossing 36C as well. Yeah I would guess that's the reason why there are so many flowers. Also, parks were once well taken care of, while that bnecame poor maintenance, it is getting better now.
Kerouac, that is true but I need to get out and explore. I don't know when I can.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 25, 2013 1:38:14 GMT
Thanks, Ansh! I need to get out and explore. I don't know when I can. I guess your cruel parents won't let you quit school so you'll have more time to devote to traveling, right?
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Post by htmb on May 25, 2013 1:48:26 GMT
Ansh, what would young people your age do there for fun?
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Post by anshjain97 on May 25, 2013 1:49:31 GMT
Bixa, ha ha...no, of course not. We have shifted to somewhere further from the centre- so all the more difficult and time consuming to get to. Besides, my mom really doesn't want to visit the old heart of the city for some reason. We usually only go out to restaurants or malls.
Of course, though, at this stage, education is the priority.
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Post by anshjain97 on May 25, 2013 1:50:29 GMT
Htmb, many of my friends go out for things like movies, laser-tag, sometimes go-carting.
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Post by anshjain97 on Jul 29, 2013 16:03:24 GMT
Nice church. It seemed packed because it was a Sunday morning. Here's the Bangalore metro. It started in Oct 2011 after (obviously) a series of delays. I have taken it once- it's all you expect- clean and, on weekends, quiet. You can also get good views- the metro is entirely above surface. But this is only one line, others will start soon. And a look around. This is Brigade Road. A popular shopping place, but with so many other shopping streets/malls coming up, rents had actually started to fall. And around
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Post by htmb on Jul 29, 2013 16:44:08 GMT
The building in the last picture is sure different from many of the others. Is it a part of a church?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2013 16:51:59 GMT
City of so many contrasts!
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Post by anshjain97 on Jul 30, 2013 2:20:04 GMT
I think it is indeed part of a church- or a catholic school.
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Post by anshjain97 on Jun 8, 2014 11:47:42 GMT
Sorry to keep this thread hanging for so long...today we went to the city centre and I took photos so... We decided to go the city centre by the metro. Here is the metro station closest to our house. This is the walkway which connects the entrance to the ticket booth and platform. This is the interior of the metro- very neat and well maintained. Being a Sunday, crowds were minimal as well. A view of a residential area from the metro Now we're entering the city centre, marked by many shops and other businesses. And here we are, on one of the main drags called MG Rd (Mahatma Gandhi Road. Despite many malls opening in the non-central areas, the centre remains popular as many shops, offices and residences remain to be here. There is a promenade above MG rd- a nice well maintained walkway. Luckily it's not disrupted by any shops or anything, there's just the one restaurant. More views of MG Rd:
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Post by anshjain97 on Jun 8, 2014 12:47:28 GMT
At the end of MG Rd: Right here is the entrance to the main city park called Cubbon Park. Here is a statue of Queen Victoria. A bamboo tree: Lots of greenery around And below is the bright red facade of the High Court I don't know what the other statue in the above picture is. The area was nice, calm and shady. It was warm but luckily the shade and fairly cool breezes made it bearable. Back, just outside the park, at a different side. Back on MG Rd, going towards the metro station. This is the famous Life Insurance Corporation building. Rather than taking the promenade, we took the normal street level footpath- which has also been revamped. There is an art exhibition going for a long time. This, for instance, is a collection of structures of monuments built by sand. The Christ Redeemer, the Colosseum, the Eiffel Tower, they're all there. One metro stop away is a mall. It's exclusive but small- as there is very less space right in the heart of the city.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2014 15:11:58 GMT
Thanks for the update. I continue to love to see what these cities are like.
Is Queen Victoria a respected figure in India or is it just too much trouble getting rid of all of the statues? I can imagine her being respected in terms of giving India a useful governmental and urban infrastructure when it was probably sorely needed, but obviously I can also think of all sorts of reasons that every element of the British Empire might be despised. How is she presented in history books in school?
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Post by anshjain97 on Jun 8, 2014 15:28:42 GMT
It's been more than 3 yrs since I last studied history but as I remember there was nothing significant on Queen Victoria in my textbooks. For some reason, the area right around the statue was cordoned off- don't know why.
Also, these days no one really talks much about the colonial days. Don't really know why though.
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Post by bjd on Jun 8, 2014 15:40:19 GMT
It's been more than 3 yrs since I last studied history but as I remember there was nothing significant on Queen Victoria in my textbooks. For some reason, the area right around the statue was cordoned off- don't know why. Also, these days no one really talks much about the colonial days. Don't really know why though. They are probably trying to forget colonial days. I imagine no people like to remember times when they were not in charge of their own country. Ansh, I was just in Germany and talked with a German woman who has been living in a small village outside Bangalore for 11 years, but has started returning to Germany for the summer. She said it was just unbearably hot there and she can't put up with the heat as she gets older.
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Post by anshjain97 on Jun 8, 2014 15:47:26 GMT
Haha bjd sometimes we still feel that we have no charge over our country. Until last month we were rules by a coalition with a puppet prime minister, corruption scandals, increasing inflation and falling growth. But let's see if things change- we have a much more assertive prime minister now...
Do you know the name of that village? Everyone keeps on complaining on how much hotter it has become- the last 2 summers were particularly hot and dry. But it may be a phase than a trend- 2011 summer was below average (in terms of temps) and very rainy. But the monsoons have arrived and it can only get better now.
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Post by bjd on Jun 8, 2014 18:23:23 GMT
Sorry, Ansh but no, I don't know the name of the place. She only said it was a small place near Bangalore.
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