WHITEFEILD

WhiteField is a place which I cannot forget.I spent two years of my life here and they were possibly my best and a time when I built solid foundations at a personal level which I can feel to this day. Kadugodi, Belathur, Hope farm and channasandra are places near white feild that I was associated with.

My earliest memories of white feild is having visited the place as a school student on an excursion; visiting alembic glass factory, the joy ice cream factory,the blind school and st. johns school. Some of these enterprises do not exist there any further.

WhiteFeild railway station was a single platform station in the 1980s where most trains would stop except the Brindavan express. Many times as students at white feild we used to wait for trains at this station. BTS meaning Bangalore Transport Service did have few busses plying to this area. Most of the buses were in the morning or in the evening. Any one caught in wHITE FEILD during the afternoon generally did not get a BTS bus and had to wait till the evening for bus. The situation is largely changed now. I have walked as a young boy all the way from whitefeild to kr puram along the railway tracks ;since buses were only in the evening. It used to take four hours to walk the entire distance.

BRINDAVAN

Sai Baba ashram named as Brindavan is a key aspect of this place. The entire stretch of road was busy especially when Sai Baba was in station. What a splendid sight. Bhajans could be heard upto the railway gate. There used to be pin drop silence especially when Baba was giving darshan.

Now whitefeild wears a totally different look; with high rise buildings everywhere. There is a stretch of road that connects whitefeild to old airport road which has become a hotspot today with the other stretch of road connecting hope-farm to kr puram not lagging behind. White feild is connected to hoskote through another stretch of road which must be very busy now because this road leads to the new airport.

White feild is a place to be watched. What used to be a sleepy and forsaken part of Bangalore will become some day a very important hub with many corporate offices located there. Fortunate are the people who purchased land long back at this place when the prices were paltry and would rake a fortune now and is a priced possession even otherwise. When all such evolutions abound I can feel a small sense of contentment that I was associated with this place too as a young boy and have fond memories harboured somewhere in the spirit.