If there is one Indian city that is today etched in the mind of any well read person across the globe it is Bangalore,i'm sorry Bengaluru....Bangalore has fallen the way of Bombay,Calcutta and Madras.
Mr Anandamurthy and Co have achieved what they had set out to do by the official name change from yesterday Nov 1st onwards. They say its an apt start to the Suvarna Karnataka year(Golden Jubilee year).I say its the worst possible start. What does such name change achieve except an awful amount of waste??
I would love to hear the costs to exchequer for the name changes for the previous cities. I can imagine it will be a one huge bill. Just imagine all the government documents that are kept in Karnataka,Central Govt or Foreign embassies across the world will have to be trashed to incorporate the name change.All the sign boards on roads,shops etc will have to be changed. I'm sure here are a million other things that i haven't thought of.
So all these money is wasted when it could have been used for much useful purposes like decongesting the choking roads of the Garden City.
I don't understand how in a democratic system like ours a few personalities for their 15 seconds of fame decide to change the names of our cities. Mr Shashi Tharoor once mentioned in his article when Madras was changed to Chennai- "The weather will be just as sultry in Chennai as it used to be in Madras. But are we Indians so insecure in our independence that we still need to prove to ourselves that we are free?"
The self declared champions of culture can claim the fact that Bangalore's name change highlights the city's origins - Bendakalooru means `boiled beans' in Kannada. I don't think even Scott Adams could have come up with such a joke. IT silicon valley city to City of Boiled beans. When everyone moves forward we Indian's love to go back centuries. After all we have a rich heritage. Prove that in action not in useless resource wasting name changes. Is name changing the miracle solution to solving a city's problem. If yes ,then by all means go ahead Change every damn city,town and village name in the country.
I have a new strip to contribute to Dilbert. A caricature of Mr Anandamurthy beating the hell out of Dilbert,Dogbert, Wally and the Pointy Haired Boss for using the word Bangalored - "Its Bengaluru-ed you dumbwits !!!"
4 comments:
i really agree with u dude...what's there in a name...gud blog...keep up the gud work...!!!
agree with u ,changing names of the city doest nit serve any purpose ,and ur post on fidel castro is excellent
keep up the work man
thanks for visiting my blog and it's not a sports blog but i am feel sports provide more inspiring stories
Madras is always Madras, no matter whoever changes it or calls it otherwise.
Changes are so much irritating and make life more difficult . I always say Madras as I'm used to from childhood but people around me frown as I've uttered some obscene word.
Well, If you don't like british names or anything done by british then, why do you still celebrate Jan 1st as New year? We have seperate Tamil New Year right? Why don't you destroy the high courts, railway tracks constructed by british & reconstruct from the start? Sounds stupid right... Same way, It sounds stupid to change from Madras to Chennai when both co-existed without any problem. Now , only Chennai exists . where's my magnificent Madras? My DOB Certificate lists it as Madras. A'm I born in a city which does not exist? These changes promote regionalism & not nationalism… which will ultimately result in a separate Country ThamizlNadu(Once known as the State of Madras).
Don't know where will it End?
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