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Anutters based in BLR will have to edit their profile!


Just wondering what a tough time will foreign multinationals in BLR will have trying to pronounce the new name!!!


Nuts these people are


BANGALORE (Reuters) - India's technology hub of Bangalore changed its name to its vernacular original Bengalooru on Wednesday in what is seen as a bid to appease locals upset at the influx of outsiders.

The name change was announced to mark the 50th anniversary celebrations of the formation of Karnataka.

However, the change is expected to take about a month to come into effect legally as it needs central government approval, a senior state official said.

Historians say Bengalooru is derived from Bendakalooru, meaning a town of boiled beans, as the place was named when it was born in the 14th century.


Bangalore is the anglicised version of Bengalooru, a city which was popular with India's British colonial rulers for its temperate weather throughout the year.

Home to more than 1,500 computer software and back office firms -- including global giants such as IBM, Dell, Intel, Google and Oracle -- the city has seen an influx of outsiders drawn by lucrative employment opportunities.


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the_380 wrote:


The name change was announced to mark the 50th anniversary celebrations of the formation of Karnataka.

 





Celebrations for  Andhra, Kerala and TN also. 



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We had Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta have theirs changed, and it is now the turn of Bangalore. Why not? I don't see any harm in a name change.

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its pathetic to see that this idiotic mentality incorporating stupid fascination with issues that serve no public good is all that matters to politicians these days..

rename the city "Hell" and i guess it wouldnt matter to anyone.. apart from world headlines its effect on the common man would be what?...

i dont even want to go into the expenses that are incurred on account of a name change for all the machinery in the state... political/corporate or administrative...

anyways... i dont give a damn... still Bangalore for me

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I fail to understand who achieved what from these name changes.

The names of Kerala cities were changed even before mumbai.
I still use Trivandrum.

If I speak malayalam, I would say thiruvananthapuram but not while talking in English.

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Majority of People still use the older more common names irrespective if its Indian Cities or Mumbai Roads.


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Bombay changed to Mumbai
Fine

Madras changed to Chennai
Tolerable

Calcutta changed to Kolkata
Yeah Whatever

Bangalore changed to Bengalooru.
Stupidity. Its a brand name for godsake u dont mess wid successful brandnames.

Imagine drinking Coca Coolu????

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Not only Bangalore,

Mangalore has become Manglooru
Mysore has become Maisuru
Belgaum has become Belgavi

Tomorrow they might ask us to change our names.

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The basic mentality of these idiots is to rename all those places' names given by the English when they were ruling.


Allright if you guys have so much guts and capabilities then change everything by them. This includes all the existing laws they created and most importantly the drainage system made by British in BOM which is till being used today



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AKLDELNonstop wrote:


Imagine drinking Coca Coolu????


Thats a f**k*n gud one mate i am gonna die laughing lol

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Break up the word bengal+ooru

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Break up the word bengal+ooru

Bengal in punjabi means bengal and ooru means to fly
so let the bengal fly and bangalore remain at its place.
BTW what name will you use-Bangalore/bengalooru?

Why don't they change delhi to Indraprastha again?

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787 wrote:

the_380 wrote:

Break up the word bengal+ooru

Bengal in punjabi means bengal and ooru means to fly
so let the bengal fly and bangalore remain at its place.
BTW what name will you use-Bangalore/bengalooru?

Why don't they change delhi to Indraprastha again?


I still refer to Chennai as Madras; Mumbai as Bombay; and Kolkata as Calcutta. So it will be Bangalore for a long long time, like the other cities, unless they make saying their former names illegal.

We will all get used to it as we have for the other cities-meaning we will refer to them by whatever name we are comfortable with.

It is only the newspapers, tv news anchors, flight attendants, and pilots that will have to start referring to Bangalore, Mysore by their new names, right away.

However, I don't see anything wrong with a name change, as long as they let institutions based in Bengalooru-IIM, Bangalore, IISc, Bangalore, Unviersity of Banagalore-retain their original names. I know it is still the University of Madras, Madras Medical College in Chennai. How is it elsewhere? Still University of Bombay?

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What about Delhi? What would be the Hindi name?

Dilly? Nai Dilly, what about India?

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VOTV wrote:

What about Delhi? What would be the Hindi name?

Dilly? Nai Dilly, what about India?

Delhi might be Indraprastha as said by 787 and politicians refer to india most of the times as bharat 

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This whole renaming thing has gone too far.  Sure, many Indian cities were anglicized, but who cares?  Is it going to make Madras more tamilian to be Chennai?


This is just urban/local politics, nothing more, to get votes and to stoke/inflame nativist feelings.


 


Should be change our name here to Airliners-Bharat?  Airliners-Hindustan?


 


So silly, don't ya think?


 



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texdravid wrote:

Should be change our name here to Airliners-Bharat?  Airliners-Hindustan?

Wellim sure it remains airliners-india till they make india as bharat or hindustan compulsory

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Frankly I still use all the old names wherever possible as my way of protesting against this madness. Only once I was forced to write Mumbai on the Form, which was any way obvious because I was dealing with a govt. official guy. Besides that I have never had any problems.


 I think we all should do that to send a message that name changes does not serve any purpose adds more confusion and city loses its identity. Also its the tax payer like us who pays for all the cosmetic changes for the whims and fancy of some local politician.


Is int it time that the politcians start taking a vote of all the city dwellers to see what they want to name the city before renaming it?



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Yeah, why is that we in India never have a referendum for such things? After all the name change affects all of us and why are just a few people allowed to change it.

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InfosysFounder of Indian IT giant swipes at Bangalore name change


 


BANGALORE, India, Nov 7, 2006 (UNI) 


The retired founder of software giant Infosys Tuesday took a swipe at officials of India’s southern Karnataka state over their bid to rename Bangalore as Bengaluru, or ‘‘the town of boiled beans.’’


‘‘For me, changing the name is not important,’’ Infosys chief mentor N.R. Narayana Murthy told reporters. Murthy retired from day-to-day operations of the firm earlier year, but remains a powerful voice for India’s technology industry.


‘‘All this energy, enthusiasm and debate, instead, must be focussed on how to improve city infrastructure, road safety, health care and education,’’ he said.


‘‘I would say those are the issues that should be debated rather than Bangalore or Bengaluru,’’ he added, asserting that merely changing the name was not something that required ‘‘any hard work.’’


Officials in the India’s high-tech capital said last week they will officially use the local Kannada language name Bengaluru, meaning ‘‘the town of boiled beans,’’ rather than its English version of Bangalore.


The change, first announced last December, will take a couple of months to implement as it has to be approved by the federal government.


Bangalore is home to more than six million people and some 1,500 domestic and foreign firms -- including Infosys Technologies, a pioneer of off-shore software outsourcing -- and its rapid development has badly strained local infrastructure.


Bangalore, according to state historians, got its name from Bendakalooru (the town of boiled beans) after a king strayed into the area during a hunting trip in the late 14th century.


A woman offered him a meal of boiled beans which the king enjoyed so much that he named the town after the dish.


Several cities in India have been renamed since independence from British colonial rule in 1947 to reflect local languages and nationalist sentiments.


In 1995 financial hub Bombay became Mumbai to reflect the Maratha language of Maharashtra state. The Tamil Nadu state capital of Madras was rechristened Chennai in 1996 and West Bengal’s Calcutta became Kolkata in 2001.


 


 


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AFP 071044 GMT NOV 06


 



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