Bengaluru pete: Only a pale shadow of its former self
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Bengaluru pete: Only a pale shadow of its former self

The Hindu  

As Bengaluru expands without an end and traffic congestion is a big deterrent for people to travel long distances, the city has become truly multi-nodal. The beginning The pete area — what is today commonly referred to as Majestic — is the place where Bengaluru began 488 years ago in 1537 and it used to be the nerve centre of the city until recently. Vestiges of the mud fort and a watery trench around to protect it from invaders built by Kempe Gowda remain, and the pete within the old fort retains its character even today. The Rice Memorial church on Avenue Road, the Tawakkal Mastan dargah in Akkipete, the Ibrahim Shah mosque, and the Bahadur Shah dargah, built in memoriam of the two killedars of Bengaluru, a mark of the wars for Bengaluru, shows how the pete became more cosmopolitan over the centuries. The city’s road network is even today modelled on the hub-and-spoke model, with the pete area being the hub.

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