Comments on: Bangalore, names and Nehambal

By: Ravi

Ravi — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:46:28 +0000

This should have be done 50 years back… better late than never…
Its all in the name… let first respect and pronunce the name of the place where we live. Will anyone of us accept if someone calls our name differently.. Same applies for our city our country….
Long live ‘bangaluru’

By: deeps

deeps — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 07:56:50 +0000

I Love the name “Bangalore” and intend to continue using it!

By: Sanket

Sanket — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 06:40:58 +0000

While anybody can hold a opinion against Ananthamurthy, and one cannot invalidate that, it’s fairly unfortunate that he is being perceived as a villain at once. If one has observed a series of Kannada related activities that have been happening in Karnataka over the last one year or so, one would find enough suggestions to see that he’s certainly not a hardliner or an antagonist of individual/minority rights. On the contrary, he’s been consistently facing the wrath of the hardliners for being too soft and not being concerned about “the language that brought him such fame”.
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Ekawaaz: Responding to only one of your statements – Bangalore is at least a little more than “the silicon valley of Asia” and less than “the silicon valley of Asia”.

By: Shripriya

Shripriya — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 03:50:19 +0000

Neha – I grew up in Chennai (and went to a CBSE school). In the 1970s and 80s, Hindi was a third language I had to learn till eight grade. There was no question of replacing Tamil — at least in my experience. Maybe that was because they fought it so hard in the 1960s, but in my experience, there was never an issue of Hindi taking precedence over Tamil as a language and the politicians were still gung-ho.

I’m all for preserving culture (esp. as a Tamilian and all), but I hate it when politicians define themselves almost solely as anti-something. For a long-time, at least from my perspective as a child, TN politicians defined themselves as such.

By: Ekawaaz

Ekawaaz — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 03:09:36 +0000

Instead of changing Names they should put their power, time and authroity in changing Indias IT capital Bangalore infrastructure. We need more roads a proper airport and clean city.I want to aks one question why you got nick name Bengaluru why not full name ? Benda Kaal Ooru?

change of name is hardly the most important thing the city has to deal with.There other more thing to do about the city. why not Government bothered about that? Bangalore got Brand its took almost 20 years from some intelligent people from Bangalore to build this Brand in todays world.

Only reason they took Bengaluru short nick name becuase of this brand its bit sound similar to Banglore.

Call it by full name and you will see the reaction. Bangalore knows as Silicon Valley of Asia will surely be hit if you put full name.

Either do it properly or dont do it. Simple. Government played a good game, he made kanada writers happy by saying that ok I got your name, and also thought bengaluru will keep the brand image that Bangalore got in world. Game of Politics not thing to do with any sentiments.

By: Nilu

Nilu — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:37:50 +0000

So, that UR guy has the right to an opinion but prabhakara does not?

By: Neha Viswanathan

Neha Viswanathan — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:38:05 +0000

Prabhakara: That is highly uncalled for. I have utmost respect for UR Ananthamurthy. I think his work is brilliant. He’s free to hold an opinion on name change. Anyone does. It’s the government that is implementing a change without consensus. If anyone is an idiot, it is the government. URA has every right to suggest a name change.