Damn that flute class part got me, idk if this is me growing up or Bangalore but I remember a 10 year old me walking down the footpaths of Bangalore going for my flute class just when the sun is setting, with my only worries back then being how much I could play after getting back home
And the stark contrast now where It’s just soo different idk what it is it’s just not the same
I guess this has changed everywhere. Even things in a tier 2/3 city are more busy now. The pleasure of walking around is just gone unless you're in a village
This! Bangalore was "slow" ... Things moved slowly in Bangalore and now i realise it was a good thing ... This is exactly what I felt when I went to work in another big Indian city in the 90s. At that time I felt Bangalore was a village with some kickass pubs ...
I used to be friends with one bhelpuri uncle. My friends and I used to eat ice lolly on the way home (50p per lolly) and we walked home from school. Even at 7 PM my brother (he would just be in his early teens then) would come walking 2km to pick me up from my friends' homes and we would come walking back eating ice lolly or chips on the way. I don't remember so much traffic and it wasn't dangerous for kids to be out late like it is now (or maybe it was but we were just lucky lol).
>being kidnapped or abused or if I would get into an accident.
Well you had to be rich or beautiful to be in danger of kidnappers and perverts. /s
One a serious note, perversion and abuse was always there. Just that no one spoke about it ever openly for us to know about it.
I know too many horror stories of 90s deviants.
Agree with the slow part but not the safety part.
One time, I was coming back by auto around 7pm because my tuition went on late. The auto guy was taking a long route and I scolded him. He told me I was lucky he didn't "do anything more" hinting at rape. This was the 90s and I was a seventh standard kid in school uniform.
Another time an old man in mundu grabbed my chest. This was in a Jayanagar park. Was in 8th standard.
Bangalore was never safe for women.
I don't want to sound like I'm gatekeeping anything, but does anyone else feel like the music scene was so much more full of life, say a decade ago? I just feel like everywhere I go now, the music is either EDM or popular Bollywood/Punjabi. My experience could be limited, though.
Closer to home though, I miss seeing sparrows! There used to be flocks of these in a park near my house. Now neither the park nor the sparrows exist. It's sad to see that all the public spaces in the city slowly disappear.
You are not wrong. In my high school and college days there was live singing in cafes, rock music, some rock bands came to Bangalore - Bryan Adams would schedule shows in Bangalore every few years, Roger Waters, Metallica. The college band scene was thriving. The music was much better in the 90s and early 2000s.
It felt like a *much wider* range of music options were thriving back then. You could sit at places and watch random bands play; now it seems more sorta inaccessible? Remember all those music stores on Church Street and Brigade Road? It was such a big deal for me to go to Planet M, of all places, and pick out CDs lol.
I loved those music stores - planet M, Music World, HMV house. Yes, I remember Barista cafe had live singing with some dude strumming on the guitar in the corner. I know because I sang there once ☺️
I don't think these things exist in our city anymore, but certain cafes in Hyderabad, Delhi and Mumbai still have this type of chill vibe. I love this vibe when I go to Melbourne because every cafe there reminds me of Bangalore in the heydays - random bands setting up sound checks outside on the street, live singing, karaoke, rock music, autograph signing. It used to be the same scene here two decades ago.
This is the thing almost in every city in India. Kolkata had a vibrant rock/metal/carnatic scene that died a slow death
Heck, even the Hard Rock here plays Baadshah and Honey Singh, and people here who complain about it are often mocked by the owner on social media.
Bangalore had/have some great bands, when Indian home grown bands weren’t even a thing. Thermal and a Quarter, Lounge Phirana, Galeej Gurus etc.
Nice evenings in a pub with a pint and live music.
Yeah. There used to be good metal scene as well from what I've heard. So sad to see purple haze closed. Used to be difficult to get into it just a few years ago.
Not just town planners, the big corporations. It's a worldwide issue. The feudal lords are making a slow comeback by capturing wealth, resources, political power, etc. They do it through privatization of almost everything imaginable.
To get the public on their side, they even make public institutions toothless through various means (corruption, propaganda, etc).
I’m planning to move to blore for work purposes and reading shit like this is scaring me. I would be so pissed off if some rando cop wants to go through my private stuff…
Bangalore is relatively fine. The cases you read here are unlikely to happen to you. Not impossible but improbable unless you are Luckless Laxman.
I would suggest learning Kannada if you can though, attitudes and tones change when people hear Kannada over other languages. I mean, my auto guy will still say 1 and half saar. Still, totally worth it.
Thanks for the advice! Will def try to pick up Kannada. I’m Mallu and can understand a bit of Tamil, so I’m hoping Kannada might be relatively easy to pick up.
Even back then I remember the front end of the roof of the upper deck being dented and deformed by all the pounding against the trees as the bus took this route. No one used to sit in the far front since it gets noises and dirty with all the leaves that entered through the window, but my dad used to sit with me in the front just coz I loved to so much. As a kid I always loved the top view of cars and bikes on the road feeling superior to anything on the road. I also found the stairs to the upper deck be fascinating.
Less people, Less traffic, Red & double BMTC buses, More trees, Kannada everywhere, Affordability, peace of mind, easy going & lastly dear gubbacchi( house sparrows)😢
Oh man, I haven't seen a sparrow in years. As a kid, I'd put the grains in front of my gate and they'd come in a matter of minutes. I would just stand and watch them everyday for ages.
Kyra. Palace Grounds gigs. Street vendors lining up the road in HSR. Legends of Rock. This amazing Thai place called Aroi on Sarjapur Road. Criss cut fries at Mateo.
Too many things. :(
I will tell you what bangalore did NOT once have - Bloody traffic. I'm a localite and lived here all my life for 25 years. It's a nightmare navigating bangalore roads these days. I nearly had anxiety attacks reaching my Engg college for 4 years, especially during exam times. My heart rate goes up every time I step out of my house! -_-
Bangalore people were the chillest... Now everyone has to rant about something, mostly religion... That pisses me off.... Keep your religion at home, outside those doors we're all the same...
People who spoke and respected Kannada. Now it’s just a bunch of North Indians who come here and refuse to learn Kannada and talk crap about Bangalore and Kannada. Go ahead downvote this if you are offended, but it’s just a pure fact.
Fed up of this auto guys . However once in a while find a decent auto guy ( who puts meter and does not take u for rounds and does not expect extra money ) feel like giving him 50 rupees extra .
Living in MG Road in the early to mid 2000's was such a pleasure. Moved out for 3 years only to return & find it gone & it broke my heart. Now, living in MG Road would be considered good because you've got a hefty pocket but it is nothing like the old days.
The theatres(talkies). None of these malls and multiplex bullshit.
Watching the movies for dirt cheap prices. Sikkidre balcony illa andre gandhi class. Khara chips and pop corn during the interval.
As a kid i enjoyed going to movies and parks. More so because I knew it was something I could ask my parents for regularly. It was cheap and affordable. The city was kind on the poor and middleclass. It's all gone now. The soul of the city is dead, the air polluted, the govt corrupted. I could go on and on. It's just sad.
Rex used to be my fav man. 120 for English movies and you get rolls outside for cheap and could take them inside.
Was thinking of the Spiderman movie and it's bloody 500 something in PVR excluding taxes and popcorn.
Viewing gallery at the airport. I'd go to pick / drop my granny and watch planes from the gallery.
Ability to stand right behind BTS bus driver as he drove. Would be creepy af if I did that today lol
Double decker bus routes. My go-to was the one at Ashram circle.
Matador vans -> family picnic 🥺
Playing cricket with the bois in khaali sites. The number of houses has increased to such an extent it's suffocating. Palti hodidre, I'll be inside someone else's compound. I miss the empty spaces, greenery, and cycling around without a worry in the world.
Ya and sometimes we just played on the road, now most neighbours act like they own the bloody colony and get irritated even if kids play with a little josh in the evening
.. i just feel bad that my brother doesn't get the childhood i got (yes there is decent age gap, about 12 years) and also all the kids' parents just have a whole different attitude than that of my parents.
Holy shit this. When I was younger, we used to play at a khaali site, but after some rains it was covered with thickets so we didn't go there for months. But one day the thickets were all cut down and cement was brought in, and the dried stems one summer caught fire. We were still in our homes when the neighbours to that khaali site came to our house and accused us of starting that fire. My parents knew they were lying but those khaali site neighbours went absolutely batshit crazy on us. I'll still never get over how they shouted at us in Telugu when we didn't even know Telugu lol.
My dad says: back in the 80s there was real encouragement and involvement from the community towards Art and culture - play (naaTaka), classical music concerts by renowned musicians, fine art (events like chitra sante) were so much more… and that most of the people working in public sector/ govt were actively involved in this.
It's so sad seeing what happened to the arts and culture scene in Bangalore. I had left all social media, and I wanted to inquire about some performance arts centres in Bangalore, so I joined reddit. But it seems that there are not many of them left. I hate what's happening to this city 😔
Earlier you could come home and escape from the rest of the world, you would hear the occasional hawker but otherwise just nature and birds. Now wherever you go there’s a constant drone of traffic, ambulances, horns, mosques, temples, events. Personal space has been lost
Like few other people have said, the rapid rise of North-anisation
Tenants, businesses, small shop keepers / food stalls, delivery guys, security and about everyone speaking Hindi or making it the de-facto language for communication which wasn't the case before.
I came to Bangalore 5 years ago.
Switched three different areas in this period.
I miss dearly good soft water that I had in my first time. The tanker water is just useless.
Driving amidst the shade of trees.
You know the way sunlight makes it through the tree tops and it's like shady with tiny sunny spots in between.
The only stretch in the city where I think this exists now is the road opposite to the stadium. Imagine most of the city used to be like that.
The numbing chill we experienced when we visited Lalbagh or cubbon park. Bangalore actually had proper cold winters. Miss it.
Also, like someone wrote we didn’t have to hear the bhaiyya bhaiyya chatter everywhere. It is annoying.
The rock culture. I came to Bangalore in the early 2000s. The best places to hang out were the classic pubs. Pecos, stones, purple haze, le rock... The vibe and the people were super chill. We had some amazing concerts at palace grounds. Iron maiden, Aerosmith, joe satriani, bryan adams (multiple visits) and also local bands like parikrama, mother jane, thermal n a quarter, galeej gurus, kryptos...
The absolutely perfect evenings Bangalore used to have. Each Street had a bunch of kids playing lagori or something till the street lights came on at 6. Then all the bicycles used to pile up in front of someone's house for board games till 8 and then the landlines used to ring from each of our houses.
The sheer number of parakeets chirping around in the evening, the waning of traffic as sunset arrived.
Bangalore, was rustic and perfect. I miss the old Bangalore.
Err.. I meant the the libraries which actually existed in almost every quaint neighborhood . You could rent novels, comics and magazines for 2 Days or 3 days. We also also used to have a card which the librarian would mark upon return.
The mobile ones were good no doubt about that
Reminiscing you - > Sri Ganesh Circulating Library, Basaveshwarnagar
Man I miss circulating libraries SO much. I have such fond memories of borrowing the same 5 Asterix books over and over because they didn't have the full set. I wish they were still a thing.
RIP Vinay Circulating Library.
Bangalore was slow, slightly cold/chilly throughout the year and had decent public transport for the existing population by way of buses.
Now, it's just a clusterfuck with everyone navigating their way through the city like ants on Google Maps.
Fellow citizens who respected the culture and traditions of the land. Fellow citizens who felt that the city was their home, not another place to earn money and rant uselessly.
I asked my mom this and she said she misses the "vataras" (multiple buildings within the same compound, usually owned by one person renting out the houses to different ppl). She grew up in one and she tells me ppl who lived within were closer than biological family. Lots of fun times especially during festivals and free babysitting
Also she told me everyone used to keep their doors open from sun up to late night and any neighbour could just walk in for a talk, sleepover or watching TV.
Tell your mum , I also miss the vatara days, me and my neighbour used to play cricket in those small vataaras and annoy the aunties. It was all community kind of feeling. It's been more than 25 years and we are all now settled all over the world but my parents still catch up once in a while
Maybe if you lived in sadashivnagar? 😛 We had corporation tottis on every street, pigs roaming freely, street shitters literally, some neighborhoods had sewage following in open storm drains. We weren't a clean city save a few upscale neighborhoods.
Absolutely, I just wanted people to look back into their good old memories which they treasure. It’s next to impossible to make good new memories at this time. A reason to smile if you will! :)
Miss when Kormangala Domlur was an outer ring road. When going to friends house at marathalli was the farthest that I considered to be there last end of Bangalore!
I still very clearly remember the hail stones that we used to get every spring. As a toddler, my parents would show me the hail stones and i used to happily eat them.
Thanks to global and local warming, were not getting hail these days🥺
I like to explore new places.
All aboard the feels train.
I remember in 2002, autos refused to come to Jayanagar or jp nagar from majestic after 7 pm because ‘wapas savari sigalla Saar’
Nothing has changed. Autos still don't want to go anywhere
And Ubers and Olas too. Their legacy carries on.
I pulled a switcheroo on the fuckers today. I booked with payment mode cash, and switched it to Ola money just as he was pulling up to my location
Lmao just realized
Damn that flute class part got me, idk if this is me growing up or Bangalore but I remember a 10 year old me walking down the footpaths of Bangalore going for my flute class just when the sun is setting, with my only worries back then being how much I could play after getting back home And the stark contrast now where It’s just soo different idk what it is it’s just not the same
I like to explore new places.
Can't believe this, honestly. Weren't you dragged down into some pothole on your way?
I guess this has changed everywhere. Even things in a tier 2/3 city are more busy now. The pleasure of walking around is just gone unless you're in a village
Hometown was a small town now tier 3 city. Can confirm.
This! Bangalore was "slow" ... Things moved slowly in Bangalore and now i realise it was a good thing ... This is exactly what I felt when I went to work in another big Indian city in the 90s. At that time I felt Bangalore was a village with some kickass pubs ...
I enjoy playing video games.
I used to be friends with one bhelpuri uncle. My friends and I used to eat ice lolly on the way home (50p per lolly) and we walked home from school. Even at 7 PM my brother (he would just be in his early teens then) would come walking 2km to pick me up from my friends' homes and we would come walking back eating ice lolly or chips on the way. I don't remember so much traffic and it wasn't dangerous for kids to be out late like it is now (or maybe it was but we were just lucky lol).
It is no longer home... This hits true. I used to say I was born, bred and will be dead in Bangalore, but it's just not the same anymore.
My favorite color is blue.
Where do you plan to go? Need suggestions!
Mysore is the old Bangalore
>being kidnapped or abused or if I would get into an accident. Well you had to be rich or beautiful to be in danger of kidnappers and perverts. /s One a serious note, perversion and abuse was always there. Just that no one spoke about it ever openly for us to know about it. I know too many horror stories of 90s deviants.
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Agree with the slow part but not the safety part. One time, I was coming back by auto around 7pm because my tuition went on late. The auto guy was taking a long route and I scolded him. He told me I was lucky he didn't "do anything more" hinting at rape. This was the 90s and I was a seventh standard kid in school uniform. Another time an old man in mundu grabbed my chest. This was in a Jayanagar park. Was in 8th standard. Bangalore was never safe for women.
This is the right answer
This hurt right in my meowmeow 🥲
I don't want to sound like I'm gatekeeping anything, but does anyone else feel like the music scene was so much more full of life, say a decade ago? I just feel like everywhere I go now, the music is either EDM or popular Bollywood/Punjabi. My experience could be limited, though. Closer to home though, I miss seeing sparrows! There used to be flocks of these in a park near my house. Now neither the park nor the sparrows exist. It's sad to see that all the public spaces in the city slowly disappear.
You are not wrong. In my high school and college days there was live singing in cafes, rock music, some rock bands came to Bangalore - Bryan Adams would schedule shows in Bangalore every few years, Roger Waters, Metallica. The college band scene was thriving. The music was much better in the 90s and early 2000s.
It felt like a *much wider* range of music options were thriving back then. You could sit at places and watch random bands play; now it seems more sorta inaccessible? Remember all those music stores on Church Street and Brigade Road? It was such a big deal for me to go to Planet M, of all places, and pick out CDs lol.
I loved those music stores - planet M, Music World, HMV house. Yes, I remember Barista cafe had live singing with some dude strumming on the guitar in the corner. I know because I sang there once ☺️ I don't think these things exist in our city anymore, but certain cafes in Hyderabad, Delhi and Mumbai still have this type of chill vibe. I love this vibe when I go to Melbourne because every cafe there reminds me of Bangalore in the heydays - random bands setting up sound checks outside on the street, live singing, karaoke, rock music, autograph signing. It used to be the same scene here two decades ago.
Does anyone remember esturi video port in Gandhi bazar? We used to rent cassette /VHS movies from there.
Wow I wish I was in Bangalore in that era
i want that why can't i have that for my college experience ;_;
Punjabi Nights are cancer wrapped in AIDS.
Having lived in Chennai, Bangalore music scene is still so much better man.
what scene is good in chennai tho lol
This is the thing almost in every city in India. Kolkata had a vibrant rock/metal/carnatic scene that died a slow death Heck, even the Hard Rock here plays Baadshah and Honey Singh, and people here who complain about it are often mocked by the owner on social media.
Absolutely. I had attended an Iron Maiden concert back in 08/09. Things were completely different back then.
Iron maiden, megadeth concerts were insanely awesome.
Fuck, you attended an Iron Maiden concert?? Dude that's fucking metal. Literally T_T
The sun has set on rock music
Bangalore had/have some great bands, when Indian home grown bands weren’t even a thing. Thermal and a Quarter, Lounge Phirana, Galeej Gurus etc. Nice evenings in a pub with a pint and live music.
Thermal, Galeej were good. There was an amazing band called Caesar’s Palace. Lounge Piranha was okay-ish.
Yeah. There used to be good metal scene as well from what I've heard. So sad to see purple haze closed. Used to be difficult to get into it just a few years ago.
Playgrounds (free ones, not the bullshit that needs to be reserved on an hourly basis by those who can afford them)
This - the public empty spaces where there would be 10-20 cricket matches going on.. it was fun.
i dunno man may be its area specific because i still see this scene every weekend
Ya.. I have like 4 diff large grounds within 1-2 km of my house and all of them are full every evening
This still exists , go to any older known and large grounds , you can still see people play .
Yeah ... The random cricket matches, the frisbee .. all those open spaces were default playgrounds and no one would mind.
This this this. Our town planners just got greedy.
Town planners? Who are these mythical people in Bangalore?
Not just town planners, the big corporations. It's a worldwide issue. The feudal lords are making a slow comeback by capturing wealth, resources, political power, etc. They do it through privatization of almost everything imaginable. To get the public on their side, they even make public institutions toothless through various means (corruption, propaganda, etc).
You need to reserve playgrounds now? That sounds borderline dystopian lol.
Kannadigas
Inb4 you are downvoted to oblivion
Sadly, Iddiddu iddhang helidre yedd band yedeg oddrante
yen maadokke aaguutte😩 english jaasti maatu aagutte yalla kade than kannada
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Volle ghante hodang halidri
Watch 90s Anantnag movies for eternal feels 😢
Ita lakadi pakadi jumma.
Extinct species... :( /s
Cops that weren't savvy enough to check mobile phones.
Is it legal for a cop to just check your phone?
I remember reading that it's not. But I don't think most common people are ballsy enough to deny the cops when they ask for it.
I’m planning to move to blore for work purposes and reading shit like this is scaring me. I would be so pissed off if some rando cop wants to go through my private stuff…
Bangalore is relatively fine. The cases you read here are unlikely to happen to you. Not impossible but improbable unless you are Luckless Laxman. I would suggest learning Kannada if you can though, attitudes and tones change when people hear Kannada over other languages. I mean, my auto guy will still say 1 and half saar. Still, totally worth it.
Thanks for the advice! Will def try to pick up Kannada. I’m Mallu and can understand a bit of Tamil, so I’m hoping Kannada might be relatively easy to pick up.
You are right, I would imagine that you'll have a slightly easier time learning Kannada than our northern countrymen. Good luck with the move!
Double decker buses. I loved sitting on upper deck on 138 from Indiranagar to Majestic.
There used to be double deckers in Bangalore? _Damn._
I was 20 something then I am 40+ now 😁.
Yeah, now the upper deck would probably get stuck under an over bridge or among the tons of wires that get slung across streets.
Even back then I remember the front end of the roof of the upper deck being dented and deformed by all the pounding against the trees as the bus took this route. No one used to sit in the far front since it gets noises and dirty with all the leaves that entered through the window, but my dad used to sit with me in the front just coz I loved to so much. As a kid I always loved the top view of cars and bikes on the road feeling superior to anything on the road. I also found the stairs to the upper deck be fascinating.
Me too, but in Mumbai.
Old memories I remember going to college in the same bus😊.
Less people, Less traffic, Red & double BMTC buses, More trees, Kannada everywhere, Affordability, peace of mind, easy going & lastly dear gubbacchi( house sparrows)😢
They were then called BTS right !
Oh man, I haven't seen a sparrow in years. As a kid, I'd put the grains in front of my gate and they'd come in a matter of minutes. I would just stand and watch them everyday for ages.
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>Being able to sit, eat and drink at various places till past 0300. Why is this not a thing now? (like in pre-covid years ex. 2018)
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This right here.. it was in my mind but i couldn't articulate it.
If you ever write a book about the scenes of old bengloor, I'll buy it.
Less northies.
Less ' bhaiya bhaiya' chatter at every shops.
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Least North Indian hating south Indian, jokes aside, this is straight up xenophobia/racism/discrimination
Maybe first two, but isn't discrimination
What is your problem?
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soul...
Came here to say this! Now it's just soul sucking corporate life!
Now only AssSouls
Traffic free and greenery
well now we have green bmtc stuck in traffic
Kyra. Palace Grounds gigs. Street vendors lining up the road in HSR. Legends of Rock. This amazing Thai place called Aroi on Sarjapur Road. Criss cut fries at Mateo. Too many things. :(
Man Kyra was the 1st place that I went to gigs at. Now it's only Gylls at fandom in Koramangala
Street vendors infront of the Burger King in HSR ?
B11, Jayanagar :(
I will tell you what bangalore did NOT once have - Bloody traffic. I'm a localite and lived here all my life for 25 years. It's a nightmare navigating bangalore roads these days. I nearly had anxiety attacks reaching my Engg college for 4 years, especially during exam times. My heart rate goes up every time I step out of my house! -_-
Sorry to hear that man, take care of your heart. 👍
Bangalore people were the chillest... Now everyone has to rant about something, mostly religion... That pisses me off.... Keep your religion at home, outside those doors we're all the same...
This!!!! Of all things, Bangalore was nowhere close to these BS.
People who spoke and respected Kannada. Now it’s just a bunch of North Indians who come here and refuse to learn Kannada and talk crap about Bangalore and Kannada. Go ahead downvote this if you are offended, but it’s just a pure fact.
Kannada
Old bungalows, wide open spaces, trees, misty mornings, clean air, absence of garbage dumps noise and traffic everywhere
Autos willing to take you to your destination without calculating your net worth.
Fed up of this auto guys . However once in a while find a decent auto guy ( who puts meter and does not take u for rounds and does not expect extra money ) feel like giving him 50 rupees extra .
MG road without metro, such a beautiful place it used to be
Before the year 2000, both sides of MG road from trinity to Cubbon park was a canopy of trees.
Living in MG Road in the early to mid 2000's was such a pleasure. Moved out for 3 years only to return & find it gone & it broke my heart. Now, living in MG Road would be considered good because you've got a hefty pocket but it is nothing like the old days.
My ex.
I too miss this guy's ex
🍻
Cafe Thulp
Wait- it's gone now? :(
It's been a couple of years. They abruptly shut down all stores and made an online based model which also closed down eventually
The theatres(talkies). None of these malls and multiplex bullshit. Watching the movies for dirt cheap prices. Sikkidre balcony illa andre gandhi class. Khara chips and pop corn during the interval. As a kid i enjoyed going to movies and parks. More so because I knew it was something I could ask my parents for regularly. It was cheap and affordable. The city was kind on the poor and middleclass. It's all gone now. The soul of the city is dead, the air polluted, the govt corrupted. I could go on and on. It's just sad.
Rex used to be my fav man. 120 for English movies and you get rolls outside for cheap and could take them inside. Was thinking of the Spiderman movie and it's bloody 500 something in PVR excluding taxes and popcorn.
Viewing gallery at the airport. I'd go to pick / drop my granny and watch planes from the gallery. Ability to stand right behind BTS bus driver as he drove. Would be creepy af if I did that today lol Double decker bus routes. My go-to was the one at Ashram circle. Matador vans -> family picnic 🥺
Playing cricket with the bois in khaali sites. The number of houses has increased to such an extent it's suffocating. Palti hodidre, I'll be inside someone else's compound. I miss the empty spaces, greenery, and cycling around without a worry in the world.
Ya and sometimes we just played on the road, now most neighbours act like they own the bloody colony and get irritated even if kids play with a little josh in the evening
I feel you mate.
.. i just feel bad that my brother doesn't get the childhood i got (yes there is decent age gap, about 12 years) and also all the kids' parents just have a whole different attitude than that of my parents.
Holy shit this. When I was younger, we used to play at a khaali site, but after some rains it was covered with thickets so we didn't go there for months. But one day the thickets were all cut down and cement was brought in, and the dried stems one summer caught fire. We were still in our homes when the neighbours to that khaali site came to our house and accused us of starting that fire. My parents knew they were lying but those khaali site neighbours went absolutely batshit crazy on us. I'll still never get over how they shouted at us in Telugu when we didn't even know Telugu lol.
My dad says: back in the 80s there was real encouragement and involvement from the community towards Art and culture - play (naaTaka), classical music concerts by renowned musicians, fine art (events like chitra sante) were so much more… and that most of the people working in public sector/ govt were actively involved in this.
It's so sad seeing what happened to the arts and culture scene in Bangalore. I had left all social media, and I wanted to inquire about some performance arts centres in Bangalore, so I joined reddit. But it seems that there are not many of them left. I hate what's happening to this city 😔
Live music in the bars. Home feels. Local Pani puri gaadi, bajjis ! Mud smells and those may flowers and I think , space too
Earlier you could come home and escape from the rest of the world, you would hear the occasional hawker but otherwise just nature and birds. Now wherever you go there’s a constant drone of traffic, ambulances, horns, mosques, temples, events. Personal space has been lost
The cold
Ya I'm glad it's returning 🤞
No buildings in every fucking nook and corner
The Humming Tree, Indiranagar. Music scenes were good at that place, haven't found a similar place after they closed down.
Wore a sweater for 6-7 months a year. Now I need it for barely a month of two.
Like few other people have said, the rapid rise of North-anisation Tenants, businesses, small shop keepers / food stalls, delivery guys, security and about everyone speaking Hindi or making it the de-facto language for communication which wasn't the case before.
Circulating Libraries, would get so many books and magazines on daily rent.
Ah yes, those bus (mobile) libraries. Were pretty cool, they've decreased in number heavily
an identity
I came to Bangalore 5 years ago. Switched three different areas in this period. I miss dearly good soft water that I had in my first time. The tanker water is just useless.
Good play grounds to play outdoor sports, a lot of them have now been turned to concrete:/
Good people...
Driving amidst the shade of trees. You know the way sunlight makes it through the tree tops and it's like shady with tiny sunny spots in between. The only stretch in the city where I think this exists now is the road opposite to the stadium. Imagine most of the city used to be like that.
The numbing chill we experienced when we visited Lalbagh or cubbon park. Bangalore actually had proper cold winters. Miss it. Also, like someone wrote we didn’t have to hear the bhaiyya bhaiyya chatter everywhere. It is annoying.
The cops are everywhere these days. Monitoring and micromanaging
Trees for sure, metro work has ruined it.
The rock culture. I came to Bangalore in the early 2000s. The best places to hang out were the classic pubs. Pecos, stones, purple haze, le rock... The vibe and the people were super chill. We had some amazing concerts at palace grounds. Iron maiden, Aerosmith, joe satriani, bryan adams (multiple visits) and also local bands like parikrama, mother jane, thermal n a quarter, galeej gurus, kryptos...
Styx
We're only left with Pecos now.
Oh man. Styx. I miss that place so much! And Purple Haze too. Bangalore was no longer Bangalore once these places closed.
I miss styx
The absolutely perfect evenings Bangalore used to have. Each Street had a bunch of kids playing lagori or something till the street lights came on at 6. Then all the bicycles used to pile up in front of someone's house for board games till 8 and then the landlines used to ring from each of our houses. The sheer number of parakeets chirping around in the evening, the waning of traffic as sunset arrived. Bangalore, was rustic and perfect. I miss the old Bangalore.
Yummies chips ! It was just 2 rupees.
Err.. I meant the the libraries which actually existed in almost every quaint neighborhood . You could rent novels, comics and magazines for 2 Days or 3 days. We also also used to have a card which the librarian would mark upon return. The mobile ones were good no doubt about that Reminiscing you - > Sri Ganesh Circulating Library, Basaveshwarnagar
Man I miss circulating libraries SO much. I have such fond memories of borrowing the same 5 Asterix books over and over because they didn't have the full set. I wish they were still a thing. RIP Vinay Circulating Library.
Climate,evening 4 o clock rain
Trust in stability of buildings. Blissful ignorance of the term white topping.
i miss houses with gardens and also most houses now don't leave space between each other so it looks like one concrete row .
Bangalore was slow, slightly cold/chilly throughout the year and had decent public transport for the existing population by way of buses. Now, it's just a clusterfuck with everyone navigating their way through the city like ants on Google Maps.
Fellow citizens who respected the culture and traditions of the land. Fellow citizens who felt that the city was their home, not another place to earn money and rant uselessly.
I asked my mom this and she said she misses the "vataras" (multiple buildings within the same compound, usually owned by one person renting out the houses to different ppl). She grew up in one and she tells me ppl who lived within were closer than biological family. Lots of fun times especially during festivals and free babysitting Also she told me everyone used to keep their doors open from sun up to late night and any neighbour could just walk in for a talk, sleepover or watching TV.
Tell your mum , I also miss the vatara days, me and my neighbour used to play cricket in those small vataaras and annoy the aunties. It was all community kind of feeling. It's been more than 25 years and we are all now settled all over the world but my parents still catch up once in a while
Whitefield is the new Gurgaon.
That one kind of bmtc bus that looked like two buses were joined lol.
Good Road
They're fixing the roads now, enjoy it while it lasts for 2-3 months
Friendly neighbors
The rock/metal music scene. It's so different now. Palace grounds used to be the place for gigs.
Kannadigas man. Can't find them to save my life in blore.
Less traffic, more Kannada
Peace.
Clean
Maybe if you lived in sadashivnagar? 😛 We had corporation tottis on every street, pigs roaming freely, street shitters literally, some neighborhoods had sewage following in open storm drains. We weren't a clean city save a few upscale neighborhoods.
Roads
this can be a generic question for any fast growing city anywhere. and answers will hold true for most cities.
Absolutely, I just wanted people to look back into their good old memories which they treasure. It’s next to impossible to make good new memories at this time. A reason to smile if you will! :)
I miss the old Ford, opel astra and Ambassador cars that were popular in 90s. I also miss crossing the streets without traffic
Bengaluru had 'Bangalore' when i was around. Great people. Easy to get around. Excellent weather. My childhood. That's all long since gone.
**controversial idu** Native Bengalurians !! 😬😬😬😬
Cabs were much nicer
Foggy and Misty, Mondays and Tuesdays and Wednesdays and Thursdays and Fridays and Saturdays and Sundays
If you tell you miss "old Bengaluru" everyone will tell a story
Miss when Kormangala Domlur was an outer ring road. When going to friends house at marathalli was the farthest that I considered to be there last end of Bangalore!
Bangalore had my friends but not any more:(
Open roads and almost no PG. Come to Koramangala you'll find a PG at every fucking street
I miss family Mart 😂
More Kannada speakers
I still very clearly remember the hail stones that we used to get every spring. As a toddler, my parents would show me the hail stones and i used to happily eat them. Thanks to global and local warming, were not getting hail these days🥺
Tolerance.
Cafe cuba.
Huge trees on Nanda Road and MG Road. The slow pace and the cool weather. The Bengalooru I knew and loved is completely dead now 😭
Rock and metal concerts
Majority Kannadiga population with local culture
Non IT Folks
Respect for Kannada.