In The Times, James Collard finds fading colonial gems amid the shopping malls and pizzerias of Bangalore:
Spice-seller
Bangalore is very much the new India: all IT giants, biotech research institutes and bold entrepreneurs like VJ Mallya, whose Kingfisher empire is based here. But we don’t go to India to hang out in Starbucks – and the perfect way to steer through all the Western modernity of which Bangalore’s yuppies are so proud, is with Fiona Caulfield’s excellent Love Bangalore guide.
Handcrafted in beautifully soft paper and a silk cover, it’s such a lovely looking thing that you don’t have the usual tourist’s embarrassment at walking around with a guidebook in your hand.
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Is the pizzeria with the statue of Batman outside still there?? (Think it was on M. G. Road…) Do the staff still do a dance every 30mins? Does anyone know?! Anyway, I wasn’t a big fan, but it was memorable
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