Pooja's second text post: Bangalore' India

Firstly, I want to apologize as I m not following my proposed topic as per the weekly episodes. I have chosen the topic “Bangalore ‘India”. I chose to do this because recently when I spoke to few localities about India they think that India looks like a village and the reason being, when ever India is shown on the screen, they show cows, fields, and countryside. It’s not their fault. Because you believe what you see. So I want to show one of the cities in India by name Bangalore because I come from that city. In my second blog I will show Bangalore city. The pictures and few video clips are what I have taken. Therefore I will be showing the surface not in detail.

BANGALORE, now called the IT capital of India. It is India‘s fifth largest metropolitan area. Bangalore is referred to as the Silicon Valley of India and accounted for 35 percent of India's software exports in 2004. The city was listed as one of the best places to do business in the world in a list compiled by CNN-Time Warner group in 2007.Bangalore is known as the "Garden City of India" because of its climate, greenery and the presence of many public parks. The diversity of cuisine available is reflective of the social and economic diversity of Bangalore. Roadside vendors, tea stalls, and South Indian, North Indian, Chinese and Western fast food are all very popular in the city

Bangalore has many clubs and bars, and is sometimes referred to as the "Pub Capital of India".Bangalore also hosts many rock concerts, with Iron Maiden, Aerosmith, Scorpions, Roger Waters, Uriah Heep, Jethro Tull, Joe Satriani, INXS, No Doubt, Safri Duo, Deep Purple, Mark Knopfler, The Rolling Stones, and Bryan Adams, among others, having performed in the city. Bangalore’s main international cricket stadium is the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, which hosted its first match in 1974.

Private schools in Bangalore typically use English as the medium of instruction. Bangalore is home to several other nationally renowned universities such as the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B), National Law School of India University, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences and Bangalore Medical College. St. John's Medical College and Bangalore Medical College are consistently ranked among the top ten medical schools in India. Bangalore's IT industry recruits extensively from the city's large pool of engineering colleges.

References:

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore#Education

[2] www.mapsofindia.com/maps/karnataka/bangalore-map.htm - 35k