Bangalore Walks

Bangalore Walks is an interesting way of exploring the city and its history. Much like anything else in India, the government should have done this long back, if it was serious about promoting tourism, but fortunately, today, Arun Pai, an entrepreneur and history lover and a proud Bangalore an has launched something which was so sorely missed. Bangalore Walks is all about re-discovering your city from a historical perspective and on foot. In good measure, a typical South Indian breakfast is thrown in to complete the walk. It has done more for city tourism than the 50 years existence of government tourism department/s.

 

At School, History was treated as just a study dates and some outdated facts which were to be memorized in order to pass the exam. Infact, it was even made fun off. If you had an interest in History, you were probably a sissy. The ‘real’ people would solve complicated math sums. In Economics, they say, for a thing to have value, to be precious, it must have scarcity value. Conversely, if you have too much of something, chances are, you will not value it. We have too much history and is it any surprise, we don’t value it. In France, they will take you to a Chateau (village) and talk about it for hours. In India, even a priceless piece of historical architecture is only good enough for the dogs (and humans) to relieve themselves.  

 

We just took our second Bangalore Walk at Lalbagh and came back enthralled, with new eyes.

 

Here are two suggestions for Arun Pai and his team: Add Grover Vineyards & Nandi Hills as a walk with probably a meal thrown in at Angsana. Also, worlds largest flower Exporters, Karturi Floritech have a large, beautiful farm at the outskirts of Bangalore. It could be another suggested walk for your fan group.