Bangalore, India

Bangalore, now known officially as Bengaluru (Kannada: ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು), is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Nowadays it is a large, cosmopolitan city with a large working population. Bangalore is the major centre of India's information technology (IT) industry, and known worldwide as the "Silicon Valley of India".

Once called the "Garden City of India" and the "Pensioner's Paradise", these epithets don't apply to the modern Bangalore.