·
Bangalore's pubs, clubs and
restaurants shut at 11.30pm,
Cinderella-style. So don't
start your evening too late in
order to get sufficient time
for merriment.
·
Don't fall for demands by
auto drivers for excess fare.
Pay by the meter, which starts at a minimum
fare of Rs 17. After 9pm, however, auto fares go
up by 150%, i.e. one and a half times the meter
fare.
·
Avoid travelling during peak hours as traffic
clogs up along arterial roads, ring roads and the
main roads leading to the various IT parks.
·
Don't shy away from seeking the help of locals
if you are in need of help or directions.
Bangaloreans are known to be a warm and
friendly race, so do make contact.
·
Women travelling alone after 10pm should
Dont’s
avoid public transport. Opt for cabs instead –
Meru Cabs and Easy Cabs operate across the
city. Also, avoid walking alone on lonely
stretches or dark streets late at night.
·
Do not leave your bags unattended. Pick-
pockets and bag snatchers are known to operate
in crowded places like bus stands and on buses
too.
·
Do not head to restaurants without making
dinner reservations, especially on weekends.
Most lounge bars and restaurants take table
bookings.
·
Do not use unauthorised cabs to ride into the
city from the Bengaluru International Airport,
even if taxi touts try to court you at the airport.
Use only 'airport authorised' taxi services, which
include Easy Cabs, Meru Cabs and KSTDC. The
'Airport Taxi' signage installed at the baggage
claim areas will point you in the direction.
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BANGALORE AT A GLANCE
Bangalore is a multifaceted city that
has worn multiple identities. In its past
lives, the city has been a Cantonment
town and a quiet pensioners' retreat
with a surfeit of gardens and lakes,
best-known for its pitch-perfect
weather. In its present incarnation, the
city is a humming and buzzing
technopolis choc a bloc with software
campuses, IT parks and a teeming
community of techies. Gone is the
sleepy Bangalore of yesterday – today's
Bengaluru is a city with a galloping
growth rate, bustling traffic, booming
realty, a cosmopolitan migrant
population and the tag of a global city.
Riding on the back of the IT boom over
the last two decades, hip-new
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Bangalore is a feel-good place with
glitzy malls, posh night spots, trendy
restaurants and a gushy pace of life.
But if you think it's all just nouveau
razzle-dazzle, you're pretty far off the
mark. This city of contradictions has
not lost its abiding connection to the
past. The mamis (traditional south
Indian women) of Malleswaram, the
Benne dosas (buttered rice and lentil
crepe) in Basavanagudi and the
Carnatic music kacheris (concerts of
classical south Indian music) at
Chamrajpet are also very much part of
the Bangalore rubric. Alongside the
sprawling apartment complexes and
th
new satellite suburbs are 19 century
British churches and streets with
quaint colonial names.
Bangalore is ultimately a melting pot of
people, cultures and ways of life, where
new flavours are constantly
intermingling with the old in
interesting ways. This pot has its dents
for sure – creaking infrastructure, pot-
holed roads and inadequate public
transport. But shrugging these off and
trundling along cheerfully through the
zillionth Metro-construction-related
traffic jam is what the indefatigable
Bangalorean spirit is about.
Laidback and driven in equal
measures, trendy and simple all at
once, welcome to intriguing Bangalore!