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BANGALORE CITY PROJECT PRESENTS
PAYTAY, KOTAY, KERAY, THOTA
AN OLD CITY URBAN SPACE EVENT
8.00–11:30 A.M. ON SUNDAY, 18 MAY 2008

Now that you have explored Gavipuram (the first BCP Urban Space Event, held on March 8, 2008) and the Whitefield heritage space (held on 26 April 2008), it’s time to delve deeper into the City’s history and culture – with the Old City Urban Space Event; a walk titled “Kotay, Paytay, Keray, Thota – Changing Geographies & Fragile Futures.”

The history of a place is writ large on its cultural landscape. Opportunities exploited, imaginations expressed/withheld, memories recollected and forgotten, injustice and inequality negotiated from different positions of power and powerlessness. The city is fraught with complex and not-always-pretty stories.

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1) In 1687, a Wodeyar Raja from Mysore paid 3 lakh rupees to a Mughal general. Why?

2) What’s in this picture?

3) Where did Neelamma Kadambi sing on November 2, 1955?

As an advertising professional, I have for long reserved a certain fondness for what I call “friendly neighborhood newspapers”. Community newspapers may not figure in large-budget media plans, but certainly have a homegrown flavor that large newspapers can’t even come close to.

So how do they achieve that ?

They voice even the smallest concerns of the neighborhood. They showcase talent. They provide useful information and news. Who’s what ? Who’s where ? Who’s who ? And with some luck, if the paper features a matrimonial column, it might even set some hearts aflutter.

But the biggest feature of the community newspaper is its ability to bring people together under one small banner. It gives the residents a common platform - “space” they can call their own.
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As the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched the celebrations of 60 years of Independence from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Bangalore too had its own celebrations in different parts of the city and wore a colourful look with tri-colours waving everywhere.

Instead of watching the parade near MG Road, we decided to wander around the gallis of Commercial street. It was an unusually quiet day on the roads and quite a welcome relief to motorists!

Bangalore Metblogs also takes the opportunity to wishes all its readers a very happy I-Day.

A merchant tries to cash in on I-Day!

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This seventh day of the week, on the seventh day of the Seventh month in this seventh year of century… termed as “lucky day”…So what do I wish for today?

I wish ‘Taj Mahal’ to retain its status as one of the new seven wonders of the world… Don’t you?

As on the 8 p.m. EDT Friday voting deadline, in the top 10 were the Acropolis in Greece, Chichen Itza pyramid in Mexico, Eiffel Tower in Paris, Easter Island, Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Taj Mahal in India and Jordan’s ancient city of Petra. Check out the Updates here on http://www.new7wonders.com

Tippu Palace is one of the remains of the history in Bangalore, Construction of the palace started in 1781 by Haider Ali and completed by his son Tippu sultan in 1791, This Palace is built in an Islamic style with mostly wood and a very good paintings on the walls with lot of pillars across the palace.
BTW another fact is that the so called Palace is just a part of main palace, the main palace was towards the Venkataramana Temple which is no more exist there.
Current Palace consist of Ground & First floor with lot of rooms, hall & a open area, In ground floor there is small museum with few paintings related to Tippu sultan by James Hunter, Robert Home and others.

[Entrance of the palace]
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Bangalore was all about pete,ooru,palya etc till British came in here around 1800 AD to establish there military base , Bangalore was not a new military base for British in the region but it was a transfer of military base from Srirangapatana to Bangalore.
Once British entered the Bangalore a new area called “Cantonment” came into existence, Then the Bangalore mainly know by two areas i.e. Old Bangalore or Pete area and Cantonment.
Old Bangalore was mainly consist of region established by Kempe Gowda and Cantonment mainly consist the new area which British established, Then the Locality in the Cantonment was called TOWNs thus the Towns entered into Bangalore, usually the town use to name under some British officers who were quite famous in order to respect there work.
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News: Apparently, in the Oxford Concise Dictionary of World Place Names (2005), the entries for some of our cities read as follows:

Bangalore - A city which takes its name from the fact that it was founded as a mud fort in 1537 by Kempe Gowda, a local chief in the Hoysala kingdom, in an area where the population spoke mainly Bengali. The Bengalis took their name from a chief called Banga!!!! What the?

Mysore - City of buffalos

Hubli - Old Village

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When Bangalore was formed in the year 1537 by Kempe Gowda the place was divided or classified into many small pete in it, during that time Bangalore was hardly from Majestic area to Market area surroundings.
Pete in Kannada means market,[Pete=should sound like pay-tae], so during that time Kempe Gowda had divided the Bangalore in to many pete based on the trade or community who live there.
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Despite pressure from the Centre, the Karnataka Government has decided not to introduce sex education in elementary and secondary schools, Higher Education Minister D H Shankaramurthy said addressing a press conference, and he said this decision had been taken after the issue was discussed with CM.

”The contents of the sex-education book, issued by Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry, had some portions which were vulgar. These pages can not be opened in front of anybody.”

Indeed a stalemate situation for the minister who may try balance the public emotional/ moral aspects with public education needs. The debate gone beyond the supreme judgments is surely to catch some fire here as CBSE wants it to be inducted from kindergarten levels.
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