Dejaview Homes, Bangalore

Dejaview Homes is one of the popular Residential Developments in C.V Raman Nagar neighborhood of Bangalore. It is among the Completed Projects of its class. The landscape is beautiful with spacious 8 Blocks and over 64 Houses.

Deja View is a pun derrived from the French expression deja vu, meaning an illusion of having experienced before something which is being experienced for the first time. One of Deja View Homes' older residents-- alas no more--once remarked that people who moved in here experienced good fortune because the apartment had come up on land which had once been utilised as a goshala--cowshed. Be that as it may, the apartment developers enhanced the aesthetic appeal through landscaping.

Walk into the colony on a sunlit day and you see symmetrical violin-shaped hedges looking down on manicured lawns bordered by ornamental plants, palm fronds and gently swaying hibiscus flowers. Everything is in place, including the apostrophe punctuation-mark in the sign saying "Children's Play Area" and abutting the tiled courtyard. Which could be why the infants prefer to be fed outside while taking in the view. Even the most troublesome tots become calm and quiet when carried into the common garden.

The tranquillity also has a soothing effect on the older inhabitants. You hardly hear voices raised in argument, not even during the monthly meetings of the Deja View Homes managing committee or the AGM. Deja View is ideal and not just for those who are in their first or second childhood. Stay here awhile and you begin to understand why India's erstwhile Garden City was once described as a pensioner's paradise. The outside hardly intrudes here. Those who have to go to school, college or work forget the day's problems once they return to this oasis of calm. The hustle and the bustle of the big city seems far away even if Deja View Homes is just at the other end of the road from Bangalore's biggest Big Bazaar where the traffic piles up on peak shopping days. You would not think that the Bangalore International Technology Park at Whitefield is just a few km away and the IT complex at Bagmane a 5-minute drive from here. The neighbourhood also features a DRDO township school, a Cafe Coffee Day store, Reliance and Nilgiri's outlets and a pizza parlour.

Late in the evening you can hear from your bedroom window the lonely whistle of a train-engine departing from the Krishnarajapuram railway- station. Bangalore might be Asia's fastest growing city but Deja View is still tuned in to a past where life moves at the pace you are most comfortable with.