Whitefield, India

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Whitefield is a suburb of Bangalore in the state of Karnataka, India. It is renowned for Sathya Sai Baba's ashram called Brindavan and a number of international high technology firms.

Until the late 1980s, Whitefield was a small village which was a retirement colony for Anglo-Indians. It has since become a major hub for the Indian technology industry. The Export Promotion Industrial Park (EPIP) at Whitefield of one of the country's first information technology parks - International Tech Park, Bangalore (ITPB) which houses offices of many IT and ITES companies. The EPIP zone also has offices of other IT and R&D giants like Accenture, Symbian (Symbian India Ltd.), GE (John F. Welch Technology Center), Wipro, GE Medical Systems, iGate Global Solutions, Sapient, Manhattan Associates, SAP Labs, Perot Systems, Dell, IBM, Intel and Oracle. An Intel Xeon processor code named Whitefield was being developed (but was scrapped later) in Intel's ITPB campus (Intel has since moved its campus from ITPB).

Whitefield also has major medical facilities such as the Satya Sai Baba Hospital which specializes in cardiovascular and neurological surgeries.

Villages around Whitefield:

1. Pattandur agrahara
2. Nellurhalli
3. Varthur
4. Immadihalli
5. Hagadur
6. Kadugodi (place where Sai Baba's ashram is situated)
7. Ramagondanahalli
8. Nagondanahalli
9. Siddapura
10. Channasandra
11. Samethanahalli
12. Bodhanahosahally
13. Seetharampalya
14. Belathur
15. Sadaramangala

Places you can visit include:

1. Ayurgram - Ayurveda Clinic
2. Soukya
3. ITPB
4. Brindavan
5. Varthur Lake
6. Sathya Sai super speciality hospital

[edit] External links

• http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2960/whitefld.htm

Neighbourhoods of Bangalore

Arekere • BTM Layout • Banashankari • Basavanagudi • Basaveshwaranagar • Bommanahalli • Dasarahalli • Domlur • Electronics City • Ganganagar • Gavipuram • Girinagar • HSR Layout • Halasuru • Hebbal • Hulimavu • Indiranagar • Jalahalli • Jayanagar • J P Nagar • Jeevanbheemanagar • Kengeri • Konanakunte • Koramangala • Krishnarajapura • Madiwala • Mahalakshmi Layout • Malleshwaram • Marathahalli • Nagarbhavi • Padmanabhanagar • Peenya • Rajajinagar • Rajarajeshwari Nagar • R. T. Nagar • Sadhashivnagar • Sanjaynagar • Shivajinagar • Thyagarajanagar • Uttarahalli • Varthur • Vidyaranyapura • Vijayanagar • Vimanpura • Whitefield • Yelahanka

Coordinates: 12°58′N, 77°45′E