Benda Kaluru ----- Bengaluru

After writing many posts about the places which made an impact on my life, i had to write one on "Namma Bengaluru" or else i wouldn be able to justify it to myself.!!!

Disclaimer: Understood better only by people of Bengaluru and is strictly for Namma Bengaluru Lovers who love this city unconditionally!!!!

With this Disclaimer i start----

Recently i was having a chat with my Mom which provoked me to write this post.
We were discussing something and then suddenly she starts describing Benda Kaluru as she had seen in her young age. I was simply amazed to listen, which also kept me wondering whether the things happening at present are for good or bad(we can take that up later)

Now Benda Kaluru from my Mom's eyes starts something like this:(though it is better if u can listen it from her, i still make an effort)

Traditionally, the Dodda Ganesha Temple on Bull Temple's road has been ours. My Great grandfather father started doing pooja and from then on it is being passed on to generations. Even today my grandfather only does all the pooja and holy offerings to LORD GANESHA!!. Why am i talking about this ?? Well when my mom was a kid ,the temple which is so famous now with it being covered in Bangalore Darshan was just small hut! And literally she has seen Ganesha's Idol grow in size(yes u read that right!, the idol has grown into as big as it is now). Well why did that road get its name as BULL TEMPLE ROAD becoz the Big Bull in the temple kept growing and then they had to hit a nail on its head so that ot stops growing!!(I m not exaggerating if you are doubting, then please feel free to go and see it yourself)

There was also a huge rock which had so much of water in its pit, that it was converted into pond, where my mom and others used to go to do ganesh visargan at the time of Ganesha Festival! And now there is no such thing which is left.

The Bugle rock park, which is now so full of people was a forest and people were scared to go.

In Hanumanthanagar, the road ended near Maruti Circle. There was no 50 feet road at all.(Can you believe that?)

Vijayanagar on the other hand had just a few houses here and der.

Well then Padmanabhanagar and other areas a distant dream to live in a civilised community.

My dad used to get 350Rs as salary when he joined, and in that the couple would end up saving 50Rs.(Sounds funny, is it ?? I also feel sad becoz money now has lost its value and so has things which money can buy)

So was Benda Kaluru in my mom's eyes and she is till today perplexed as to how it grew to Bengaluru in front of her eyes! (this will probably be the statement of all Mom's and Dad's who are born and brought up in Bangalore)

I just kept wondering thinking about how it grew to Bangalore and then now to "Namma Bengaluru" In a matter of just 30 years it has become a distant dream to own a piece if land in the centre of the city!!!!!

Yes Change is continous as we all keep uttering(mostly to ourself) becoz only when u are willing to change, can you see the change! But Change to this extent was it required, infact people were much more happy then living with joint families, the kids getting love and affection of sorts from different people in the family. There was a sweet home in every house. Now i fali to find that in many houses!!!

Any relatives/friends coming home was a matter of celebration rather than being seen as another trouble.Now what we tell, please do make a call before coming!!!

I really feel sad when i see the amount of traffic in bangalore due to whatever shit (globalization and blah blah). But i definetely love it as it is, becoz i m more than emotionally attached to this place(i kno , i kno u shouldn be emotionally attached to places, but who is not??)

Are people happy here like before???? Ah! I wonder what will start running in every mind which reads this post.!!!!!!!!!