Changing Times in Bangalore, India
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 06.05.06 | 1:15 PM ET
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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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
Jacklemind 06.06.06 | 12:54 PM ET
Vani Rangachar : Its evident that its been long time you have visited Bangalore, or for that matter any city in India. Pretty ignorant posting.. I just pity it.
regards,
Sandeep
Shashank 06.06.06 | 2:48 PM ET
Vani Rangachar’s article is an article by an Indian gone to America a few years back thinking the rest of the world is sleeping while they are away. She is not only outdated about India but her article shows her lack of knowledge about economic and social change that the world is going through for many years now. Maybe she needs to start reading the news more often sitting in LA. Also, bitching about 10-11 km/hour speed of traffic seems like a sarcastic comment. Wondering if she enjoys the traffic jams on I-5 or the other expressways in SoCal. Maybe the article should have been - “An Indian in America awakes from slumber” and not “Changing Times in Bangalore, India”.
Anil 06.21.06 | 12:25 PM ET
If Vani Rangachar went looking for simplicity in Bangalore and around, there was little chance of her finding it in the string of touristy places she went to, starting from Blue Bar, Cafe Coffee Day, Shreyas, to Kapila.
K Jambulingam 06.13.08 | 1:19 AM ET
I have been living in Bangalore since 1967. i have been witnessing the unavoidable changes that change the face of Bangalore. I have seen the old majestic Brish Archistrutural bulidings brought down and the new apartments came up. One such building was Elgin Floor mill that was a landmark of Johnson Market. Now it is Elgin Apartments.Many satalite towns have made their appearance. But with the changing world we have to accept these changes gacefully. There is no point in grumbling about the growth of this beautiful city