Viral 1948 vs 2025 Photo of Bengaluru’s Cubbon Park Sparks Debate: ‘Is the City’s Lung Grener Now?’

A Bengaluru Man’s Nostalgic Post Featuring A Rare Photograph of Cubbon Park from 1948 has gone viral on social media, sparking conversions about the City’s Lakes, Vanishing Greenry, Vanishing Greenry, Vanishing Greenry, Vanishing Greenry, Vanishing Green Urban Development.

The man captioned the then-and-unow Comparison with, “So Bengaluru Actually made the Central Lung Space Much Grener Over the Past 77 Years! Cubbon Park Aka Chamarajendra Park.”

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The viral cubbon park photo has been widely resparated online, thought the original source of the 1948 image remains unclear.

The post Quickly Drew Mixed Reactions. While some users pointed out that Bengaluru was on filled with hundreds of lakes and several mini-forsts, they argued that cubbon park’s importance as a “lung space“ lung space ” Only after the City Lost Most of Its Other Green Zones.

Other Suggeded Restoring Its Old Name Chamarajendra Park, While Some Drew Parallels to Mumbai’s aarey colony, where activists had opposed the metro car shed project.

One comment read, “Cubbon park was never the big lung space in that time. Its impact is visible to only because only because other people have grown spaces have disappeared.”

Another user added, “This should be done in every open space, even desirted jungles. With cheap technology and water supply systems, greening is possible anywahere.”

The Viral Discussion Comes Just Days after the Horticulture Department Clarified that No Art Complex will be Built Inseed Cubbon Park, Putting to rest concerns about privatization and accident.

Earlier, BJP MP PC Mohan Had Strongly Opposed The Proposal for A 5-Cre “Art Park” Inside Cubbon Park, Calling it an environmental threat. On Wednsday, He Posted on X, “Victory for Bengaluru! The 5-Art ‘Art Park’ in Cubbon Park, Proposed under the Pretext of Privatization, Has Been Scrapped AFTER MY SCPOSSING OPPOSITION.”

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