{"id":129,"date":"2009-08-28T08:51:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T12:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=129"},"modified":"2009-09-15T13:47:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T17:47:25","slug":"bengaluru-a-cool-crowded-and-flat-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"BENGALURU &#8211;  a cool, crowded, and flat land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-255\" style=\"margin: 5px;border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/707\/2009\/08\/LalBagh-S.jpg\" alt=\"LalBagh\" width=\"288\" height=\"227\" \/>I had a great time in Bengaluru (Bangalore) and enjoyed my stay for little over three weeks.\u00a0 Even though I enjoyed the cool weather and delicious food, I hated the traffic in Bengaluru.\u00a0 The roads are clogged with all kinds of vehicles and move very slowly.\u00a0 Bengaluru which was known as &#8220;the garden city of India,&#8221; has become a &#8220;hump&#8221; city.\u00a0 You will see humps (speed breakers) on roads everywhere.\u00a0 The purpose of these humps is to slow down the traffic.\u00a0 I noticed a lot of changes in Bengaluru since my last visit in 2008.\u00a0 More and more people are using mobile phones and for many, life revolves around their mobile phones.\u00a0 Some of them have more than one phone.\u00a0 Communication and connectivity at all times seems to be the key to success in this flat land.\u00a0 I wonder just how flat is this flat land?\u00a0 Bengaluru, also known as the\u00a0&#8220;silicon valley of India,&#8221; is now a home to more than 1,000 IT companies and over 250,000 IT professionals live here.\u00a0 Bengaluru which was also known as the &#8220;pub&#8221; city is slowly transforming into &#8220;lounge&#8221; city with many upscale lounges.\u00a0 Lots of things have changed in Bengaluru but I still enjoy visiting Bengaluru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great time in Bengaluru (Bangalore) and enjoyed my stay for little over three weeks.\u00a0 Even though I enjoyed the cool weather and delicious food, I hated the traffic in Bengaluru.\u00a0 The roads are clogged with all kinds of vehicles and move very slowly.\u00a0 Bengaluru which was known as &#8220;the garden city of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}