Hotel Oberoi Bangalore India

Hotel Oberoi Bangalore India

Address : 37-39, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bangalore, India.

LOCATION :Deluxe hotel set amidst lush green landscaped gardens, in the heart of the city.

RESTAURANT & BAR : Three deluxe restaurants serving Continental, Indian and Chinese and Thai cuisine. One bar.

ACCOMMODATION: 160 rooms and suites with private balconies all overlooking the gardens and pool, centrally air-conditioned, direct dial 2-line telephone with voice mail, dataport. Mini bar, colour television with satellite transmission. Facsimile machines in deluxe rooms.

BUSINESS FACILITIES : Three meeting rooms accommodating 30 to 250 persons. All modern conference facilities available.

FACILITIES AND SERVICES : ? Swimming pool ? 24 hour room service? Same day laundry and dry-cleaning ? Beauty salon and barber shop? Health club? Book/gift shop and travel desk ? 24 hour personalised butler service on all floors ? A 24 hour Business Centre with three meeting rooms ? 4 work stations and a board room ? Secretarial services ? Telex ? Photocopier ? Facsimile and internet access ? Arrangements can be made for golf? Tennis ? Squash and Badminton ? Extensive car parking facilities

The Taj West End Bangalore India

The Taj West End Bangalore India

Address : No. 55, Race Course Road, Bangalore, India.

LOCATION :The Taj West End is Bangalore’s most unique 5-star deluxe hotel. This 129-room hotel, nestled among 20 acres of magnificent gardens has rooms and suites overlooking wooded glades and rambling pathways dotted with coloured blooms. The hotel has a grand teak and marble lobby, giving it an aura of understated elegance.

RESTAURANT & BAR : The Gardenia: Located off the lobby, it offers patrons an Italian fine dining experience.The Colonnade Bar: Sporting an air of classy informality, the bar is ideal for a quiet chat over a drink.Coconut Grove: Set amidst a backdrop of foliage, flowers and coconut palms, Coconut Grove serves some of Bangalore’s finest cocktails.Paradise Island: An island restaurant, surrounded by cascading waterfalls, wafting palms and shimmering cool blue water. Serves exquisite Thai and Oriental food for dinner. Enjoy a sumptuous buffet spread for lunch.Poolside Barbecue: Enjoy delicious barbecue delicacies by the poolside, in a setting reminiscent of the Raj.

ACCOMMODATION: 129 centrally air-conditioned rooms including 11 suites.All rooms are elegantly appointed and offer guest amenities like in-room fax, Internet connectivity, 2-line speakerphone with international direct dial facility. mini bar, personal safe, channel music, television with satellite programs.Rooms with Private Verandah: These rooms overlook lush gardens.Poolside Rooms: These rooms offer a magnificent view of the pool.Luxury Rooms with Sitouts: These are spacious rooms, with stunning views of the gardens. Complimentary airport transfers on request.Luxury Old World Rooms: These rooms still retain their 100-year-old charm. Each room has a mahogany desk and a brass four-poster bed.Taj Club: Located in a separate wing, Taj Club is designed for the discerning business traveler. Guest amenities and services include complimentary airport limousine transfers, private check-in at the Club desk, in-room fax, personal safe, a complimentary bottle of wine, Valet Service and complimentary deluxe Continental breakfast. Taj Club guests can also enjoy complimentary tea/coffee throughout the day and cocktails during the Cocktail hour at the Club Lounge. The Club wing also offers an exclusive meeting room and Business Service Unit.Suites: Choose from a range of Executive, Luxury and Presidential Suites with private verandahs, large sunlit sitting rooms or with a private meeting room attached.

BUSINESS FACILITIES : Fully equipped 24-hour Business Centre with one office room and a boardroom. The Business Centre offers Internet connectivity, workstations, laptops, portable printers and cell phones, colour copier facility and secretarial service.
Broadband wireless Internet access at select Taj hotelsNow when you stay at select Taj hotels in Bangalore (including The Taj West End), Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad, you no longer need to be in your room or at the Business Centre to use the Internet. Multiple 'hot spots' located across the hotels let you get onto the Internet from almost any place in the hotel - quickly and without plugging in! What's more, there is a Cyber Butler on call, should you need any assistance with getting connected.
Meeting and Banquet Facilities6 rooms with a capacity ranging from 15 to 600 persons

FACILITIES AND SERVICES : Swimming pool, fitness centre, beauty parlour, barber shop, travel desk, currency exchange, doctor-on-call, and babysitting.24-hour room service and laundry service.

Hotel Leela Palace Bangalore India

Hotel Leela Palace Bangalore India

Address : 23 Airport Road, Bangalore, India.

LOCATION :Evoking the architectural glory of mysore, The Leela Palace, Bangalore stands majestically amongst acres of lush green gardens. Here you will find the most spacious and elegantly styled guest room in the country. Courteous, impeccably trained staff will anticipate and attend to your every need. The Leela Palace, Bangalore offers an experience of true world class luxury.LOCATION : The Leela Palace,bangalore is located on the Airport Road midway between the airport and city centre.

RESTAURANT & BAR : Three theme restaurants- Pacifica, Citrus and JamavarPacifica - The Asian Bistro serving Continental, Indian and Asian cuisineCitrus - Al-Fresco dining on the deck facing the pool and the landscape gardens.Jamavar - Its serve an array of the finest recipes drawn from the Royal Kitchens of India. The menu comprises specialists from both North and South Indian culinary traditions.

ACCOMMODATION: 254 lavish rooms and suites measuring 465 square feet to 2900 square feet in size with heavenly sealy Posturepedic bedrooms & 9 suites.

BUSINESS FACILITIES : Two spacious, exquisitely designed ballrooms accommodating conferences for over 500 guest, two boardrooms and six meeting rooms for 20 to 80 delegates, State-of-the-art audio visual equiptment.

FACILITIES AND SERVICES : The professionally run 12000 sq. ft. Spa offers Ayurvedic and Western Holistic treatment for rejuvenation, relaxation and beauty, Saunas, therapy suites, and Jacuzzi make it a most complete wellness center, Golf at the KGA golf course.

Bangalore Entertainment

Making love at the war of the DJs

If you didn't happen to make it for this show you really missed something. After all, MTV VJs Nikhil Chinnapa and Nafisa Joseph were there to host the hooplah. Nikhil even forsaked the premiere of his latest film "Snip" to be with the Bangalore crowd. It's interesting to note that every time he gets the opportunity to be in Bangalore he jumps at it because it's just great to be in the Garden City. The energy level of the crowd is always something to be admired and this night was no exception. People were craning their bodies to be in the front of the crowd and it was nice to see many lovely ladies shedding their inhibitions and dancing the night away.

Okay, so there were DJs competing for the opportunity to get famous and step out of the shadow of the regular Bangalore DJs like Anup, Assad, Bipin and Vachan. Bangalore's most famous DJ Ivan was there to judge who would be top cat. The DJs did not disappoint. They played some thumping tracks and one got the opportunity to check out their mixing skills with the help of an overhead screen. They were full of tricks and sent the crowd into raptures with some soul stirring melodies. It was a war all right but most of the people were making love in true Bangalore spirit. In the end DJ Sean was judged the winner for his groovy style and Afro-trance mixes. All the DJs impressed with their innovativeness and willingness to take their cues from the audience. After all, in today's interactive world it's important for DJs to improvise their act and spark an almost telepathic relationship with the audience where they give them what they want without them having to come up to the booth and ask for a particular song. It must come naturally. In the words of a great musician, "Soundbeams, soundbeams produce a sympathetic vibration…" The War of the DJs was a futuristic step in the right direction.

About Bangalore

Introduction
Bangalore is booming, and a look at some of its nicknames says why: "India's Silicon Valley", "Fashion Capital of India", "The Pub City of India", and on. Home to well over 6 million people, and a base for 10,000 industries, Bangalore is India's fifth largest city and the fastest growing city in Asia.

The capital of the state of Karnataka, Bangalore is situated halfway betwen the coasts in southern India. The city was founded in the 16th century, and witnessed great southern dynasties like the Kadambas, the Hoysalas and Vijayanagar emperors. Legend has it that the name Bangalore comes from "boiled beans" (Benda Kaluru), which were served by a humble old lady to a hungry ruler in the 10th century.

Surprisingly, despite some adverse environmental impact of industrial development in Bangalore, another of its nicknames is "The Garden City". That's thanks to many local parks, along with pink cassias, golden acacias, and jacarandas which bloom throughout the city.

Many international visitors come to Bangalore for its excellent schools and universities, such as the Indian Institute of Science. While enjoying the warm weather year-around, tourists can also use the city as a central base for day trips to other Karnataka attractions. And Bangalore doesn't only produce fine silk and software. "The Fruit Market of the South" is great for grapes, mangoes and guavas.

Last but not the least, Bangalore is even gaining the status of the "Floriculture Capital" due to the present blossoming of flower exports from the city. Because of its rich stone resources, Bangalore is also known as the "Stone City", for its granite deposits.

Bangalore Sports

Back to winning ways; finally!!
The Indian team has finally done it – won a series, and that too quite empathically, beating Sri Lanka 6-1. A lot of questions were being raised about the new coach’s approach, but he seems to have silenced his critics.

Greg Chappell’s methodology of experimenting has paid of big in the series – what with practically every match seeing a different player at No. 3, and barring a few exceptions, all the experiments succeeded. So here’s a toast to the freshly new Banglorean!!

If you have an opinion on sports in general Or simply post a message on Communique, the VirtualBangalore Bulletin Board. Let’s build a sports community that is dedicated to the upliftment of sport in Bangalore and India as well as fans of sports and sports-persons all over the world. This is Olympic year and the start of a new millennium so it can’t get any more exciting than this. Let’s make 2000 the beginning of higher, faster and stronger times.

BangalorePeople - Profiles

People - Profiles
Bangalore, the city of 4 ½ million people – undoubtedly the fastest growing city in Asia, is a dynamic mix of a fascinating history & an equally wondrous techno culture. Among the rustle of the trees & the threat of rain, the lush foliage of the city invites you to live
life to the fullest, the smells & sounds carrying the very essence of traditional Deccan life.

Like any other Indian city, Bangalore with its pollution, rich, poor & middle class, its vegetable markets, autorickshaws, crazy traffic, cows roaming the streets, government bureaucracy & more offers more to life. The roots of global culture are very prominent among the people of Bangalore, be it the IT ring or the more than tens-of-thousands of students.

Best known within India for being the country’s unofficial high-tech capital, the city is the playground of many Indian as well as multinational Infotech companies. Filtering down to everyday life, cyber joints can be found in every major block of the city. It is the urban-oriented, technology based culture that drives the people of this beautiful city, to make what it is.

We’ll try to capture this pulse of the city, by profiling the people who are behind the success story of Bangalore. Every month our focus will be to bring the spotlight on people from different genres of life, who have had a significant influence in Bangalore’s growth.

This month profile is on Girish Karnad.
In 1999, Karnataka gained a rare literary distinction. When Jnanpith Award was awarded to noted playwright Girish Karnad, it became the only state, and Kannada the only language, to have seven Jnanpith Awardees.

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