On Thursday 12 Mar 2009 3:51:07 pm Zainab Bawa wrote: > > I refuse to accept that Bangalore is a > > cosmopolitan city. It is very much rooted in the biases of caste that are > > prominent in South India and in family traditions. The cosmopolitanism of > > this city is highly cosmetic. > > While growing up we moved several houses in Bangalore - right from Seshadripuram to Airport Road. The houses we stayed in were primarily owned by 'Brahmins' and some of them very conservative (In one case, the house owner stayed in a portion of the house, while we stayed in the other). Even while house hunting, we hardly had landowners asking us questions about our origin (we were North Indians with a surname that you hardly hear in Bangalore) or whether we were veg / non-veg. I grew up with very accepting neighbours in very middle class localities around Bangalore.
Was Bangalore more cosmopolitan in thought then (late 70's to early 90's) or maybe we were plain lucky. Ekta
