India, July 5 -- A Reddit post from a Bengaluru resident is gaining traction online for challenging the widely held perception that the city was merely a sleepy retirement hub before the IT industry took off.

In the viral post, the user recalls a casual conversation with a colleague from Noida who claimed that "nobody knew Bengaluru existed before the IT boom" and described it as "just a hill station where retired people lived." The Bengaluru user pushed back, arguing that such narratives oversimplify the city's complex and industrious past.

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"This is a common narrative pushed by the media and content creators," the post read...