The origin of name of Gurgaon comes from Hindu mythology. Legend has it that Gurgaon is the ancestral village of Guru Dronacharya, the guru of Pandavas and Kauravas in Mahabharta.

Today, Gurgaon is the guru of outsourcing and manufacturing. Gurgaon boasts of companies like GENPACT, IBM< ACCENTCURE, MARUTI, HERO, HONDA amidst others.

As mentioned, Gurgaon also hosts a very educated and urbane populace - most of them working class yuppies who have bought expensive homes in a newly built city and love to party. Gurgaon hosts the largest number of shopping malls in India and a string of night clubs.

Almost all of mainstream newspapers which get published for Delhi, distribute their papers in Gurgaon. Gurgaon has one large city wide cable network, which broadcasts all over Gurgaon. Online portals / blogs like www.gurgaon.com and GurgaonPLus cater to the needs of online audiences.

Here are some interesting links to Gurgaon web sites

TOI’s Gurgaon edition: www.guraonplus.com

Gurgaon’s citizen forum: www.gurgaon.com/content

Latest news:

Gurgaon was placed on a red alert just after the Mumbai terror attacks. Though some media components took that to pieces:

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Gurgaon has been witnessing a lot of economy and real estate slow down over the last few months. City builders like Unitech and DLF are laying off employees and stalling projects. Car manufacturer Maruti has experienced retarded production growth.

Gurgaon has also been an object of ridicule and anger due to its inept handling of citizen issue including transport, water, power and law enforcement. Read some articles on it

http://www.gurgaon.com/content/?p=280

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