Malleswaram

Malleshwaram, Malleswaram or Malleshwara is a north-western district of Bengaluru city. It was developed as a planned suburb after the great plague of 1898, which caused many people to move out of the city center. It derives its name from the Kaadu Malleshwara temple.

H. V. Nanjundaiah is credited with the founding of Malleshwaram, and 6th main road is named after him. The neighborhood of Malleshwaram hosts people from all walks of life. The Nobel laureate C.V. Raman), scientist Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan and badminton world champion Prakash Padukone lived here as did Doraiswamy Iyengar) and film stars (Saroja Devi and Jaggesh).

The Place

The ward is characterized by mixed demographics, sustaining a substantial middle class, upper middle class, and elite residential areas. The middle and lower class populations live to the East of Malleswaram, while the elite residential areas are on the West. The lanes are designed with horizontal, north-south roads called main roads, and east-west roads called cross-roads. Two of the major main roads are given a flower name as Sampige Road and Margosa Road, since there was a lot of respective flower trees on these roads. Sampige road begins at Rajiv Gandhi Chowk and runs all the way to 18th cross. It caters to traffic traveling from Majestic/Kempegowda Bus Station towards Yeshwantpur. Margosa Road caters to the vehicle movements in the reverse direction, that is, from Yeshwanthpur to Majestic.