Bangalooru??? WTF
I woke up in the morning (after a holiday in Patiala and Chandigarh) to learn that the so called Indian nationalists or “the true sons of the soil” have no limits when it comes to stupidity. The name Bangalore has been changed to Bangalooru. I knew that it was in the pipeline but the fact that a state like Karnataka will do it wasn’t a very pleasant thing to hear. Karnataka is more or less the signature state for Indian's technology industry and that it has moved on from the typical “snake charmer” image. It houses India’s Silicon Valley- Bangalore.
I’m not against it coz its not trendy to flash Indian names but for a simple reason that it doesn’t serve any purpose than political implications only for the politicians. Bangalore today is the best case of political apathy towards development and depleting infrastructure. A day of rain and the roads are chocked. The CM must have a better agenda on this mind than changing the name of the city to the more Kanada sounding Bangalooru? How will it make a difference to the roads, water and electricity situation in the city? Will it solve the problem of increased traffic jam during the peak hours in the city? Will it attract more people to invest in infrastructure in the city? Will it generate employment? The answer to the best of my knowledge is NO.
There have been instances in the past of similar fashion…Bombay being changed to Marathi sounding Mumbai, Calcutta being changed to Bengali sounding Kotkatta and Madras being changed to Tamil sounding Chennai. But one has to ask, what changes did that make on the ground? Bombay has gone bad to worst. Calcutta is in news not because if development but the investment atmosphere. So what does one achieve by it?
To me its nothing but aging of a repressed child who has grown up only in numbers and not from the mind. A sign of showing rebellion against colonial repression and fooling the public into thinking that “we have achieved it on our own”. The fact of the matter is that Bangalore just like Calcutta(coz of the elite English speaking Bengali intellectuals) and Madras(the first state to officially turn down Nehru’s programme to implement Hindi as a national language) has earned their reputation from the very symbol they are pretending to oppose today- ENGLISH. Bangalore will be a ghost city without the number of back office industry it houses. It thrives on the very core business its opposing (all done in English). The people who actually do it see these things as a way to divert public attention from the real issues of corruption (the CM’s son was recently caught fighting with a cinema hall’s staff). I just wish my city never gets this bug no matter how many so called “sons of the soil” make an attempt.
I’m not against it coz its not trendy to flash Indian names but for a simple reason that it doesn’t serve any purpose than political implications only for the politicians. Bangalore today is the best case of political apathy towards development and depleting infrastructure. A day of rain and the roads are chocked. The CM must have a better agenda on this mind than changing the name of the city to the more Kanada sounding Bangalooru? How will it make a difference to the roads, water and electricity situation in the city? Will it solve the problem of increased traffic jam during the peak hours in the city? Will it attract more people to invest in infrastructure in the city? Will it generate employment? The answer to the best of my knowledge is NO.
There have been instances in the past of similar fashion…Bombay being changed to Marathi sounding Mumbai, Calcutta being changed to Bengali sounding Kotkatta and Madras being changed to Tamil sounding Chennai. But one has to ask, what changes did that make on the ground? Bombay has gone bad to worst. Calcutta is in news not because if development but the investment atmosphere. So what does one achieve by it?
To me its nothing but aging of a repressed child who has grown up only in numbers and not from the mind. A sign of showing rebellion against colonial repression and fooling the public into thinking that “we have achieved it on our own”. The fact of the matter is that Bangalore just like Calcutta(coz of the elite English speaking Bengali intellectuals) and Madras(the first state to officially turn down Nehru’s programme to implement Hindi as a national language) has earned their reputation from the very symbol they are pretending to oppose today- ENGLISH. Bangalore will be a ghost city without the number of back office industry it houses. It thrives on the very core business its opposing (all done in English). The people who actually do it see these things as a way to divert public attention from the real issues of corruption (the CM’s son was recently caught fighting with a cinema hall’s staff). I just wish my city never gets this bug no matter how many so called “sons of the soil” make an attempt.
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