Bangalore, Bengaluru Tourism - Karnataka

Karnataka's largest city and one of Asia's fastest growing metropolises, Bangalore is an amalgam of the finest of the old and the new in terms of industry, education and talent. From the 50s this beautiful city of gardens with its temperate climate, lovely bungalows, tree-lined broad avenues and laid back ambience was a pensioner's paradise for retiring officers and bureaucrats. However its emergence as the new futuristic Silicon Valley of India has played a pivotal role in diminishing its graceful beauty and peace. The software business here alone is 55 percent of the over one billion dollars worth of Indian exports in the IT industry. The Indian Institute of Science located here has played a pivotal role in pioneering research traditions in science and engineering. The city produces an endless stream of high tech professionals and entrepreneurs, most lapped up by the country's top multinational companies. Bangalore has paid a high price for such a rapid economic growth - overdevelopment with the easy availability of