Askew (A Short Biography of Bangalore)

Book Specification Item Code: NAZ571 Author: T. J. S. George Publisher: Aleph Book Company Language: English Edition: 2016 ISBN: 9789384067212 Pages: 132 Cover: HARDCOVER Other Details 7.00 X 5.00 inch Weight 170 gm Book Description About the Book When the fabled founder of Bangalore, Kempe Gowda, set out to build his dream city in the early sixteenth century, his mother gave him two instructions: Keregalam kattu, marangalam nedu. Build lakes, plant trees. Gowda built a hundred lakes and tined the wide avenues of the city with leafy trees. A couple of centuries later, the verdant city, with its benevolent climate, attracted the attention of the British who chose it as the headquarters for the oldest of the three engineering groups of the army. After India gained independence, Bangalore became known as a pensioners' paradise. In the early 1980s, the city reinvented itself once again, this time as the home of some of the world's most outstanding entrepreneurs. Very