Becoming Bangalore

Author:

Roopa Pai

Publisher:

Hachette India

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Publisher

Hachette India

Publication Year 2025
ISBN-13

9789357316217

ISBN-10 9357316213
Binding

Paperback

Number of Pages 320 Pages
Language (English)
Dimensions (Cms) 25 X 17 X 1.2
Weight (grms) 300

What makes a city uniquely itself?

Is it its geography, history, location?

Is it its leaders, aspirations, demographics?

Or is it a palpable spirit, wrought of a combination of all these, that seeps into the soil over centuries, and charges the air, infecting residents and visitors alike?

Two decades of exploring her hometown – and reading, writing and talking about it – has convinced Roopa Pai that the last is true: cities are neither born nor made, they become.

In this collection of evocative essays, she trawls the city's history to tease out bits of the Bangalore jigsaw – a scientist's quest for excellence, a maharani's foresight, an entrepreneur's vision, a chief minister's ambition, a writer's pride in his language, and more – in an effort to trace the genesis of the liberal soul of the metropolis and its ability to offer inclusive, creative, laid-back spaces amid its frenetic growth. What emerges is a fascinating mosaic that reveals how a little sixteenth-century settlement on a hill became India's most charismatic city.

Roopa Pai

Roopa Pai is a computer engineer who always knew she was going to write for children. She is the author of Taranauts, Indias first fantasy fantasyadventure series for children and has several other published books to her credit. To make a living, she brings together three other loves - history, working with young people and her home town Bangalore - in her day job as a guide with Bangalore Walks, a history and heritage walks and tours company. She is currently hard at work trying to earn the right to this epitaph: She was often content.
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