Comments on: Bangalore to Bengaluru

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:41:00 +0000

I do not know, but I do know that bhaand you wot understand for this janma the national pride. We would call it hola hola but it is civilization that we celebrate as having taken place in our country and thats why a name like bengaluru would give it its right cause.
What is sad is that you haven’t slightest pride that it is an Indian name that our leading city bears.
The excercise was certainly not futile, people like you would rather be slaves of the white men than reinstate your national pride, thats if you have any.

By: bharath

bharath — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:35:00 +0000

what happened to the other city names? belgavi and shivamoga and things of the kind.

By: Ashes are gone, they blogged here

Ashes are gone, they blogged here — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 06:52:00 +0000

and anti-juggover is much more appropriate than muggover

By: Mahesh.R

Mahesh.R — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 05:07:00 +0000

I totally agree. And lets face is….BANGALORE sounds much better and “psueder” than BENGALURU.

By: Bharadwaj

Bharadwaj — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 08:13:00 +0000

Bangalore had a distinctive ring to it… Bengaluru make it look more like the hordes of other places in India. I feel this is yet another instance of how people try to maintain status quo on something as ever changing and dynamic as human culture. Other examples? The Khushboo controversy, the move by the Anna Univ VC to ban mobile phones. Is any kind of force going to halt the forward movement of the way we live? It was most apt when you pointed out “Why don’t they just go back further in the history and call Bangalore, Bendhakaluru.” I’d say, you can go even back to the neanderthals and call it “hoo-ha-hoo”. What world are they in? There isnt any concrete thing that we’ll gain by this name-change; only a major pain in the ass. Even in Chennai the name change brigade is in full swing. They want the mount road to be Arignar Anna Salai; LB Road became Kalki Krishnamoorthy Salai. I agree that we have to honour these noble men. But doing that by denying ourselves, a part of our heritage, how much ever of a foreign invasion it was, is utter stupidity. For that matter, will anyone come forward and pull down the Taj? That is also a work by erstwhile foreign invaders, isnt it? Whatever be it, we cannot deny our history. And to try doing it, i guess, is an exercise wasted.

By: Shankar

Shankar — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 07:49:00 +0000

“One more point I would like to make is that progress and the use of English as a language are two totally different and unrelated things,Bengaluru does’nt sound backward to me atleast.”
I agree…..thats what i meant when i said
“Just because it’s not English doesn’t mean the word should represent something that lacks richness.”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 19:05:00 +0000

The first comment was written by gandhe and as far as my view goes I support the decission.This cannot be called a cheap tactic by the kannadiga’s.We have accepted people from all around India and learnt to live with them.The question is not about Kannadiga’s.I support all the changes that have taken place Chennai(Madras),Mumbai(bombay) and kolkata(calcutta) etc.There would have been no controversy about this had it been done right after independence.The names of cities I think must reflect of it’s culture and background,for eg take “Kolkata” I am sure when an Indian hears this word he can immediately say it’s of Bengali origin.As far as the issue of others are concerned I think they will have no problems.Infact I think they will like it this way because when I go any foreign land say Argentina I want it to be like Argentina and not like U.S.A or England including the names of cities.One more point I would like to make is that progress and the use of English as a language are two totally different and unrelated things,Bengaluru does’nt sound backward to me atleast.Secondly, I am sure we have’nt spent thousands of crores on this so it won’t eat into the budget allocated for developmental activities.

By: Ashes are gone, they blogged here

Ashes are gone, they blogged here — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:06:00 +0000

Its a cheap tactic to make Bangalore look like a place for Kannadigas, rather than a place for Bangaloreans.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:04:00 +0000

Manohar’s name has been changed to Mugguluru