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Bangalore is a shopper’s paradise especially for silks and handloom fabrics. Garments, woollen carpets, sandalwood articles, rare antiques, gold and silver jewellery, perfumes and incense sticks are the major attractions available in the city. The inlay work in brass and rosewood are very popular. Ivory artefacts and the Lambani jewellery freely available in the numerous markets here make good decorative as well as gift items.
Karnataka Handloom Development Corporation's outlet 'Priyadarshini' Handloom House is located at various places. Bangalore is also famous for its shopping malls. Some of the popular shopping haunts in Bangalore are:
Brigade Road: A popular hangout for young people. You can get just about everything here. There is Rex (the best movie theatre in town), Cyber Cafes (offering coffee and the Internet access), a bowling alley, a discothèque, a video game parlour and quite a few eating joints.
Commercial Street: This is strictly a shopping area with no entertainment outlets. Here, you can buy clothes, dress materials and jewellery.
Mahatma Gandhi Road (M.G. Road): M.G. Road is a very popular commercial area. There are a large number of stores, like 'Deepam Silks' and 'Prasiddhi' where one could buy the famous silk saris of south India.
Shrungar Shopping Complex, Barton Court Commercial Complex, Public Utility Building Shopping Complex, Spencer Super Market, Coir Board Show Room, Natesan's Antiquarts Show Room for gift articles, artefacts and antiques are some other places where one could shop for books and magazines, photograph material, silk saris, textiles, garments and general goods.
Residency Road (Now renamed Field Marshal C.M. Cariappa Road): State Government Handicrafts showrooms from Uttar Pradesh,' Gangotri', 'Mriganayani', from Madhya Pradesh, 'Utkalika', the Orissa Government Handicrafts Emporium and 'Gurjari', the Gujarat State Handicrafts Emporium, near New Opera offer handicrafts peculiar to their respective states.
For silk saris, garments, children wear, textiles, Alankar Pearl Plaza Shopping Complex, Prabhat Shopping Complex, Janata Bazaar, Gupta Market, Sapna Book House, the largest show room of books at Thunga Complex (Opposite Tribhuvan Theatre) are all located in this area.
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