A day in Bangalore

Dec 8

Written By Nilaya

Bangalore is a city that anyone and everyone can love. For most, it isn’t the usual love-hate relationship that one has with any other big city. The Ooru is just different. I’m not sure how entirely true it’d be to call it cosmopolitan; the locals have only grudgingly made space for the outsiders and rather reluctantly resigned themselves to every other person on the street speaking a different language. And yet, it has evolved into a strange blend of ‘them’ and ‘us’, gradually finding a fine balance of the old and the new.

This is the city I have lived in most after home, and a place that helped me grow and find an identity outside of it. I have lived here in good times and bad, and felt at ease no matter what. It welcomes you into the fold with warm dosas oozing with butter and ghee, the ever green canopies of lovely old trees, it’s numerous public gardens and a good dose of the old-world charm; and not least of all, the mostly well-meaning, but quietly judging Akkas and Annas.

It is beautiful when a new place can give you such a sense of home. Here are some snippets of a city I love, captured over the years and collated into a day -