In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
To begin......(1)......, let us ask ............such an appellation, assuming it has only positive.......(2)....., was ever deserved in a city like Bengaluru. At the risk.....(3)....... earning the well-shaped wrath of fellow Bengalureans, let me explain that......(4)......for a "peacefull" past apart, it would be difficult to assert that "Asia's Silicon Valley" had even a history of toleration of difference.
To begin ......(5)......,