What Makes Bangalore Special Compared to Other Indian Cities?
Ask ten people why Bangalore stands apart from other Indian cities and you’ll probably hear ten different answers. Some will talk about the pleasant weather. Others will point to the thriving technology industry or the city’s café culture. Those are all valid reasons, though they only tell part of the story. The real difference becomes […]
Getting Around Bengaluru by Metro, BMTC or Cab?
The best way of getting around Bengaluru is the metro for trips along its lines, BMTC buses for areas the metro does not reach, and cabs only for the last mile or off-peak hours. No single mode wins every trip, so the right answer is to match the mode to your route and the hour […]
What Kind of Neighbourhood Is Basavanagudi?
Basavanagudi is one of the oldest residential areas in Bangalore, developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as the city expanded southward from its older centre. It looks noticeably different from the rest of Bangalore because the streets are narrower, the trees are older and taller, and many of the bungalows still have […]
Whitefield Bangalore Neighbourhood Guide
Whitefield gets mentioned in two very different kinds of conversations about Bangalore. In one, it is the tech corridor, the cluster of IT parks, SEZs, and corporate campuses in East Bangalore where a significant portion of the city’s technology workforce reports every weekday. In the other, it is a residential area with one of the […]
Jayanagar Bangalore Guide to Streets and Markets
Jayanagar does not have the startup associations of Koramangala or the cafe and nightlife reputation of Indiranagar. What it has instead is something that those neighbourhoods have had to work harder to hold onto as they grew in prominence, the quality of a place that was designed for the people who live in it and […]
Malleshwaram Neighbourhood Guide
There are parts of Bangalore that feel like they were designed for the city’s present. Malleshwaram feels like it was designed for its residents. That is a distinction worth holding onto as you walk through it. It explains why the neighbourhood works the way it does and why people who grew up there carry it […]
A Guide to the Koramangala Neighbourhood
Koramangala has one of the loudest reputations of any neighbourhood in Bangalore. It gets written about constantly in coverage of India’s startup ecosystem, mentioned in every conversation about where young professionals want to live and photographed endlessly along its food streets. That volume of attention has made it easy to mistake the reputation for the […]
Indiranagar Guide to Its Streets, Cafes, Stores and Local Character
If you have spent any time in Bangalore, someone has probably told you that Indiranagar is their favorite part of the city. It comes up in conversations about where to eat, where to live, or where to spend a Sunday morning with no particular plan. There is a reason for that, and it is not […]