Bengaluru's Streets Reveal Centuries of History, Says Researcher

Imagine Bengaluru's streets are like a history book that's hiding in plain sight!

A researcher named Yashaswini Sharma is like a detective who reads these streets.

She looks at old neighborhoods, called the 'pete,' where people lived and traded long ago, even before the British came.

She found that the way streets are laid out and the names of places tell us about the people who lived there and what they sold.

Even old temples and parts of the fort walls still exist!

Sharma learned that ancient Indian books called Shilpa Shastras have ideas about how to plan towns, which is different from how people in the West think about it.

She believes that by studying these old street plans and buildings, we can learn a lot about Bengaluru's fascinating past, from its early traders to its rulers.