Though a modern, bustling city and an important industrial center, Bangalore remains one of India's charming cities. Situated 920 meters above sea level and with a very pleasant climate, it is a city studded with beautiful laid out parks and gardens, wide tree-lined avenues, imposing buildings and lively bazaars. Whichever direction you look in, the only thing visible is the greenery dotting the landscape of Bangalore, earning the sobriquet of Garden City.

This is a city for the romantics, the poets, the dreamers, the honeymooners and their likes. People come here for relaxing and taking a break; no doubt it was also called the pensioner's paradise. The spectacular growth of Bangalore has made it one of the best places to live for foodies. You can enjoy the local culture with a dash of fast city life. However, since local entrepreneurs and the technology giant Texas Instruments discovered its potential as a high-tech city in the early 1980s, Bangalore has seen a major technology boom. It is now home to more than 250 high-tech companies including homegrown giants like Wipro and Infosys. Bangalore has earned a new name for itself 'Silicon Valley' of India. Today, it is India's 5th largest city, the momentum of its industrial and commercial growth unequalled in the country

The Silicon Valley of India is a nickname of the Indian city of Bangalore. The name signifies Bangalore's status as a hub for information technology (IT) companies in India and is a comparative reference to the original Silicon Valley, based around Santa Clara Valley, California, a major hub for IT companies in the United States. Bangalore, however, is located on a plateau and not in a valley; the use of the term in reference to Bangalore is not truly toponymous. One of earliest mentions of this sobriquet occurred in late 1980s in the Indian Express. The more prevalent application of the nickname Bangalore began in the 1990s based on a concentration of firms specialising in Research and Development (R&D), electronics and software production.

The Electronics City was the brainchild of R. K. Baliga, the first Chairman and Managing Director Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation, a government owned agency aimed at expanding the electronics industry in the state of Karnataka established in 1976. Baliga proposed the concept of developing the electronic city in the 1970s. The agency purchased 335 acres of land 18 km south of Bangalore for its Electronics City project, which was meant to establish an industrial park in Bangalore. Notwithstanding complaints by the industrial park's tenants on the condition of the roads, power and water availability, KEONICS claimed initially that the title of Silicon Valley of India belonged to the city's Electronics City campus. As part of its promotion of this concept, KEONICS distributed reprints of an article entitled Can Bangalore become India's Silicon Valley" that first appeared in "Plus: The Total Computer Magazine".