Market Watch
At the heart of the bustling city of Bangalore in the southern state of Karnataka, India is a market that peddles countless wares and dreams to a population that has made the city home. The city’s oldest market, Krishna Rajendra Market (K. R. Market) with its myriad stalls and pushcarts is a chaotic square that rubs shoulders with the resplendent remnants of Tipu Sultan’s summer palace that has stood witness to Bangalore’s transformation from a tranquil cantonment to a sprawling metropolis.
Once a water tank that supplied the town with potable water, then a battlefield that witnessed the British East India Company led by Earl Charles Cornwallis clash with Tipu Sultan in the Third Anglo-Mysore War, and now a market selling everything under the sun from flower garlands to vegetables and even domestic household utilities, the nearly century-old K.R. Market has cartloads of stories to narrate to anyone who is willing to slow down and listen.
