Information Technology (IT) capital Bengaluru (Bangalore), the subcontinent’s fastest growing city, is the poster boy of India’s economic ascendance. The city has a cosmopolitan café culture, lively music scene and dynamic, liberal-minded people, making the city a vibrant and relaxed entry metro. And there’s more to Bengaluru than the IT companies and call centres. Bengaluru rivals Kancheepuram for silks, boasts a mammoth monolithic Nandi Bull temple, has boulevards shaded by rain and flame trees and the great green lungs of Lal Bagh Gardens and Cubbon Park and holds a number of fine administrative buildings left over from the British. For all its outward-looking globalism and cosmopolitan culture, there are many activities to get engaged in Bangalore like walking around the jumbles of rope and silk shops, flower garland-sewers, tailors, temples and mosques in the old city.