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Beautiful Lalbagh Botanical Garden

Early January 2017, returning on our way to Hyderabad, we decided to explore Bengaluru before boarding the flight. We hired a taxi from Bellur, the birth place of Guruji B.K.S. Iyengar in Kollar district of Karnataka. We explored quite a few places in Bengaluru but Lalbagh stood out to be a memorable experience for us. Lalbagh is a mammoth 240 acre Botanical Garden located in the south of Bengaluru. The park has four gates and the southern gate on the lalbagh road is considered to be the main gate.  These beautiful flowers welcome you the moment you enter the park. Within few minutes of observation, I sensed that Lalbagh is certainly not established by current administrators.. Modern administrators can't think of this big without any profit. So, I thought it was probably established by the Britishers during their rule in India. There was a little tussle in my mind all over the journey to Hyderabad. The name Lalbagh doesn't sound British and then again I fe