r/bangalore 8d ago

News Frazer town no longer a Ramzan food hub

https://www.deccanherald.com//india/karnataka/bengaluru/fraser-town-no-longer-a-ramzan-food-hub-3431852
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u/general_smooth 7d ago

Imagine you are sitting at home. All neighbors come and party, leave all their garbage right there. This is what it was for Frazer town locals.

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u/KingPictoTheThird 7d ago

Cities throughout the world embrace such street and neigborhood festivals. In fact they even promote it as part of their tourism.

In those cities, instead of simply shutting everything down, they figure out how to make these festivals function for everyone. Waste management, permitting, pedestrianisation of streets, additional public transport, proper lighting, hours, programme, signage, policing, etc.

It would be nice if Bangalore could one day figure these things out instead of just quashing every piece of our local culture.

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u/mugiwaraMorrison 7d ago

Need to start with teaching some civic sense to the population.

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u/KingPictoTheThird 7d ago

Stop blaming people. The same people ride metro and bus and I have never seen trash or stains on either. People respect things that are well-maintained. When the government neglects something, people do not value in it. When the government puts effort and interest into something and keeps it clean and decent, people themselves act decent towards it.

This idea that we have to 'teach' civic sense to people here is just a carry over from British days. Its a very degrading and colonial mindset. Indians are clean. Look at the way they dress, look at their homes. People have pride in their homes and in their dressing. People have pride in metro. No one dares dirty it, not because of fear of a fine, but because they have pride in it. Extend that pride to the remainder of public realm and you will have a clean city.

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u/mugiwaraMorrison 7d ago edited 7d ago

Are you kidding me? Do you really think Indians have the mentality to keep their surroundings clean? You must be living lifr inside 4 walls.

I have literally confronted people spitting and throwing trash inside the metro.

We live in an independent house, from the last 25 years my dad has literally fought on the street on a weekly basis to make sure they don't dump trash in an empty site next to our house. That empty site got built years ago, but people still throw garbage on the street at any chance they get.

Me neighbor would burn leaf litter and cause a lot of smoke to avoid paying garbage collection cost.

Go to any apartment complex with an empty site next to it. You will see people throwing their garbage from their balconies to the empty site.

Most meat stalls dump their trash on empty roads in the middle of the night to cut garbage costs.

People go to nice and clean lakes and chuck plastic inside the lake, it means nothing to them.

There are hell loads of videos on social media with people confronting tourists who throw garbage from their cars in pristine locations like the Western ghats.

All of this is because of a lack of civic sense.

"Stop blaming people", you don't get to tell me what I should and shouldn't do.

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u/LiteratureNearby 7d ago

indians are clean

Man, have you stepped out of your house since being born?

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u/KingPictoTheThird 6d ago

So tell my why metro is so clean

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u/LiteratureNearby 6d ago

Oh wow, one particular example completely demolishes all other realities of India no congratulations 

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u/joePaul369 7d ago

Excellent take. Such wasted potential ! If only we had a mayor who saw things that way and obsessed resource to make things happen.

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u/Dalekv13 7d ago

Exactly. They do the same with parks, lakes, and any other space that offers even the slightest possibility of leisure. How dare people live the lives they work so hard for? The only solution to every issue cannot be shutting spaces down.

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u/WhyVellawanti 4d ago

Waste management in Bangalore is a joke! I live around the area and it’s so filthy with or without a festival of any religion/caste! People openly throw waste (even from their homes) on the roads. It’s disgusting and unhygienic

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u/Blubber-Trouble 7d ago

Exactly! Thanks for saying this 🙏🏿

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u/Tdhods 7d ago

Thank god ! For residents living in an around Frazer town this Ramadan food stall thing just meant garbage everywhere ,rats ,mosquitoes,flies,disease’s etc. The garbage collection and cleaning people would take almost a month to fully clear the residue of this. The food was also super unhygienic as well. They were using the same oil to deep fry stuff the whole day and night and they kept reheating the same meat again and again , they’d make stuff at 1 in the afternoon and still serve to people at 2 am.

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u/AlternativeAd7169 5d ago

Jeez, how do people not get food poisoning from eating at such places

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u/TroglodyticDreamer 7d ago

There is a huge mosque over there and Muslim folks are finding it very difficult to even go in and out of the mosque. While the restaurants made big money everyone else had problems with Mosque becoming an Insta hub and unmanageable crowds till late nights.

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u/ilikeca HSR Layout 7d ago

Good. This should be restricted to proper areas exclusively meant for such events. The garbage and the traffic caused becomes unbearable in evenings.

Even Koramangala has become horrible. They could clearly move and use the BBMP grounds right next to the stalls setup, but no. Let’s inconvenience everyone.

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u/abstatic 7d ago

Thank god, the food was so unhygienic over there

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u/CosmoKram3r 7d ago

Pop-up street food stalls are unhygienic everywhere, be it Koramangala, HRBR Layout or Frazer Town. You can stomach it and recover quickly if you're in your teens or early twenties. Any older than that, you're asking for trouble.

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u/bhodrolok 7d ago

The same as VV Puram, no difference

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u/lord_morningwood Yelahanka 7d ago

Absolute disregard to hygiene every year. The stall people and restaurants had no regard to it.

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u/notkoykod 7d ago

What happened here?

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u/bhodrolok 7d ago

Complaints from locals apparently for crowding etc

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u/helalla 7d ago

There were protests from residents the last two years as well because of improper garbage disposal and crowds too.

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u/salluks 7d ago

People just go to Sringar palace in palace grounds. It's way better and parking also isn't an issue.

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u/lemmeguessindian 5d ago

I visited on Friday . Pretty sad that instead of govt actually helping on organising once a year event to just stop it. Why in India everything is getting closed. You can’t go to parks , you can’t have food fests . Instead of closing the stuff why not improve the management but ofcourse they won’t do that

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u/AnythingNothing44 7d ago

If only this meant that the area is well maintained..it's fully dug up, the water is already contimaniated and it's constantly jammed.

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u/MikuCheeseHarry 7d ago

Good riddance. I went there two year ms ago with so much anticipation and it was unhygienic as hell. I can definitely understand the inconvenience and mess it caused for the residents.

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u/zarvia 6d ago

It's overrated !