Book excerpt: In Unboxing Bengaluru, reasons why Bangalore works for startups – Money Control

According to the 2011 Census, the urban area in Delhi was 1,139 sq. km and in Greater Mumbai was 1,063 sq. km. In contrast, Bengaluru was just 748 sq. km. Further, in Bengaluru most of the startup action is concentrated in the small area of Koramangala, Indiranagar and HSR Layout an area that Sajith Pai, director, Blume Ventures, calls Silicon Halli , a play on words that perfectly describes the village sized area, halli, that it covers, and which sort of rhymes with its Californian counterpart.