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With a fast-growing reputation as India's high-tech capital, Bangalore is fulfilling a prophecy first uttered almost a century ago.
India's fastest growing city is a study in urban contrasts where satellite dishes, sleek office towers and industrial parks are interspersed with the traditional symbols of Indian society embodied by ancient temples and the aroma of incense.
Jawaharal Nehru, India's first prime minister and a leader in the nation's drive for independence in the 1930s and '40s, had an uncanny ability as a soothsayer. Nehru's prediction that Bangalore was destined to be India's City of the Future proved right on target. The capital of southern India's Karnataka state, Bangalore ranks as one of India's most prosperous and progressive cities and a pace-setter in software development and the IT industry. Dubbed the Silicon Valley of India, it is moving boldly into the 21st century, propelled by some of the best and brightest technological and scientific minds in the world.
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Looking at Bangalore today - with its population of 6.5 million - it's difficult to believe the city literally rose from the mud almost 500 years ago. Bangalore dates from 1537 when chieftain Kempe Gowda settled here and constructed a mud fort surrounded by four watchtowers. Hindu temples and dwellings followed as the population expanded over the next three centuries while enduring intervals of war and strife among Hindu and Muslim warlords prior to the establishment of British rule in the early 19th century. When British oversight ended in 1948, Bangalore became an integral part of the newly independent India. Its subsequent economic growth eventually transformed the city into a showcase of technological excellence.
A leading exporter of software, Bangalore is home to several public sector projects including Electronic City and IT Park. Multinationals are well represented here. Word about Bangalore has spread far and wide as increasing numbers of Americans and
With a fast-growing reputation as India's high-tech capital, Bangalore is fulfilling a prophecy first uttered almost a century ago.
India's fastest growing city is a study in urban contrasts where satellite dishes, sleek office towers and industrial parks are interspersed with the traditional symbols of Indian society embodied by ancient temples and the aroma of incense.
Jawaharal Nehru, India's first prime minister and a leader in the nation's drive for independence in the 1930s and '40s, had an uncanny ability as a soothsayer. Nehru's prediction that Bangalore was destined to be India's City of the Future proved right on target. The capital of southern India's Karnataka state, Bangalore ranks as one of India's most prosperous and progressive cities and a pace-setter in software development and the IT industry. Dubbed the Silicon Valley of India, it is moving boldly into the 21st century, propelled by some of the best and brightest technological and scientific minds in the world.
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Looking at Bangalore today - with its population of 6.5 million - it's difficult to believe the city literally rose from the mud almost 500 years ago. Bangalore dates from 1537 when chieftain Kempe Gowda settled here and constructed a mud fort surrounded by four watchtowers. Hindu temples and dwellings followed as the population expanded over the next three centuries while enduring intervals of war and strife among Hindu and Muslim warlords prior to the establishment of British rule in the early 19th century. When British oversight ended in 1948, Bangalore became an integral part of the newly independent India. Its subsequent economic growth eventually transformed the city into a showcase of technological excellence.
A leading exporter of software, Bangalore is home to several public sector projects including Electronic City and IT Park. Multinationals are well represented here. Word about Bangalore has spread far and wide as increasing numbers of Americans and