Modern Bengaluru
State capital, public-sector industry, the Garden City, and then the Silicon Valley of India.
Capital of Mysore State & Karnataka
Unification of 1956, the Vidhana Soudha and the renaming of the state in 1973.
HAL, ISRO & the Public-Sector City
Aircraft, telephones, machine tools and space: the industrial base behind the boom.
The Silicon Valley of India
Electronic City, Infosys, Texas Instruments and the startup era.
The Garden City & Pensioners' Paradise
The old nicknames and the green spaces that earned them.
Bengaluru Karaga
The city's oldest festival, led by the Thigala community.
Namma Metro & the Growing City
From the first metro line in 2011 to the Greater Bengaluru era.