Bangalore may be dead in more ways than one. It may be dead as a City which crumbled under the weight of its own hype. And it may be dead as a City whose name was sought to be changed to Bengalooru at the behest of you-know-who.
Now, here’s a nice little rumour doing the rounds. Apparently, Ashok Kheny the man behind the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastucture Corridor, wants to name one of the five townships that will come up along the expressway as ‘Bangalore’.
Whether this is a tribute to the once-beautiful capital or a slap on the cheeks of those who tried the name-change, we will never know. In fact, with Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy indicating that he had more important things on his plate than changing Bangalore’s name, will a ‘Duplicate Bangalore’ even be necessary?
churumuri 
Changing the name of a city is nothing to do with its beauty or beast. Madras got changed to Chennai, but the flavour remained unaffected. Bengalooru can be sweeter than the Bangalore if it gets right developments.
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People who love the native hues do not like the names of their places to be distorted by any aliens. Bengalooru should no longer called Bangalore. The Tamils, Malayalees, Marathis, Bengalis and now the Assamese have changed the distorted names of their capitals, cities and even the State. Why should the Kabbadigas lag behind? The Chief Minister should not be influenced the fact the suggestion did come from Dr. URA.
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Bangalore Amar Rahe
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Hey But Bring back churumuri frm 8th pos of wordstar to the first again plz
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I feel , we need ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು(bengalooru) than ಬ್ಯಾಂಗಲೊರ್ (Bangalore).
We feel homely when we call “Bengalooru”. Moere over this is not new. You can see these kind of chanages all over the country.
It adds local-culture flavour. No need of using fancy English words.
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make it bengaLooru I say.
infact they ought to subtley introduce kannada words in the public domain.
dasara habba not dasara festivallu.
bengalooru mahaanagara paalike BMP in english not BCC. thats what i am talking about.
that brings me to another issue.
if kannada can have english words.
why can’t english have kannada words?
interesting question alwa?
kutuuhalamaya prashne right?
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Does it makes any difference whether we call Bangalore or Bengalooru or Bengaluru until unless we stop spreading red carpets for all these I-T/B-T Tycoons Who looks with contempt towards locals( though Tycoons also locals but I am finding it difficult to digest). First prevent our city becoming one more Kolkata which is dying on account of infiltraters. We have lot of unwanted elements in this city ranging from ISI to ULFA to LTTE. Now a days from the paper reports it appears that lot of fugitives find it easy get shelters in this city than in bigger cities like Mumbai. Think on priorities than changing names. I will support the change in name whole heartedly only it can also bring changes in our life otherwise who cares?
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Vadi (if you are the same vadi that I think you are),
Ragi is a Kannada word in English, isn’t it ?
BTW, if I remember correctly ‘Mumbai’ has a Kannada origin.
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stud guru,
while i was growing up there were no studs. vonly, punTaas.
now i know some studsu but there all in the walls of my house-u.
but i can guess. if net banian and maDikeri sipayi make sense, then I am your man.
anyhow, with only ragi in english, it’s really eLLinamsha.
bhushan saar,
just like plate ooTa, there is some uppu, some kosambri, some huLi, some gojju but there is also some payasa in the plate. huLi chennagilla antha paayasa biDoakkaaguthye?
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To write that Bangalore may be dead in more ways than one…as a City which crumbled under the weight of its own hype… smacks of contempt, jealousy and envy of that city by the author. Bangalore is a beautiful, vibrant and healthy city which can never die. Neither is it a city which has crumbled under the weight of its own hype as claimed. The phenomenal growth strides that Bangalore has done is a fact, a reality and definately not a hype!! As a city which is rapidly expanding, problems are bound to happen – which is not unique to Bangalore. One must work towards solving those problems. If Mysore were to grow at the same pace of Bangalore, the problems and pressures which that city would face would be as bad if not any better than Bangalore. We are all witness to the the way The Royal City is changing for the worse.. be it, land price, water, roads etc
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every city in the world be it NYC, london all had to go through what namma Bengalooru is going through now. Only the outsiders who do not belong here try to coomplain about things which they never are really have done anything for.
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