My first week in Bangalore is now history. Very little sleep, at least good sleep. Way too many late night meetings, even later dinners, and then early mornings to beat some of the traffic.I will hopefully be documenting some of the interesting things I see, hear and do in the city of Bangalore (Bengaluru).
Here's an old garage-like structure, more or less abandoned in the middle of the city. Behind it is a large house that was probably pretty grand when it was built, but has fallen into disrepair. It's still inhabited, but I'm guessing they are squatters.
If you look carefully you see two signs, one saying "Halasuru Road", and the same in Kannada. The other says "Ulsoor Road" which is the anglicized version of the first one. All around Bangalore are signs of a language conflict. Signs in Hindi have been vandalized in the past, and English is used almost as much as Kannada. There are so many immigrants to Bangalore that do not speak Kannada and have no desire to learn Kannada. Whenever I mention to someone that I would like to learn Kannada, they inevitably respond with "why bother, just learn Hindi". Kind of sad.
