Changing Times in Bangalore, India

The Los Angeles Times’ Vani Rangachar recently traveled to Bangalore, which is (somewhat famously) transforming as a result of a high-tech boon. She discovered a city unlike the one she’d visited as a child, when milk was sold, still warm, by a man milking a water buffalo in front of her grandmother’s house. “Those water buffaloes had long since vanished from Bangalore’s streets,” she writes in a compelling story. “High-rise apartment buildings tower where there were farm fields. In a city that once had no grocery stores, there is now a Food World, with milk and vegetables in refrigerated cases, freezers full of prepared foods and shelves stocked with Skippy. And my cousins do more than visit temples when they vacation. They relax at beach resorts, go white-water rafting or rent houseboats on a mountain lake.”

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