/nick Bengaluru

Oh great! They changed Bangalore's name to Bengaluru-"to preserve the culture of Bangalore", or something similar. I absolutely despise the new name. How cool was it that Bangalore was the only metropolitan city with a modern-ish name? Now it sounds like some village in the middle of nowhere.

I don't want to graduate from an IIM, Bengaluru or IISc,Bengaluru. "Hey, chill dude, names don't matter". Oh yea? Is that why 'Mumbai' makes me think of slums, but 'Bombay' made me think of beaches"? Would you like to have a hot, smart girl named 'Gouramma' or a hot, smart girl named Nisha as your girlfriend? Unless you are super-noble, or a female, the latter.

"Alright, Bengaluru is almost the same Bangalore", you say. Well, 'shit' is almost the same as 'schmidt', so all schmidts become shit!

They say they are preserving the culture. Actually I don't like anything done in the name of 'culture'. They try to stop globalization, saying it is ruining our culture. What they don't realize is we are creating a new culture, potentially capable of uniting the world into one strong force. What's wrong with having a non-Kannada name for a capital city?

The name was changed by taking opinions from 'great' literary figures (militant-activists). Nobody asked the people. Some wise guy called Anantha Murthy was apparantly the main force. His idea is that most words become kannada-like when we put a 'u' sound at the end. Big dealu. Go to hellu.

In school we had silly jokes ending everything with a 'u' sound for a whole day. "Namaskaravu siru. Siru, Bengaluru hesaru Bengaluru madu bittaru, gotthaithavu siru?". "Namaste, Sir. Bangalore's name is changed to Bengaluru, did you find out, sir?". As you can see, Bangalore is pronounced bengaluru in Kannada. Bendakaluru was the original name of Bangalore long ago, it means "boiled beans town". It's a reference to 'Arave' beans(dunno the english name) which tastes as bad as broccoli.

The government is changing the name because they don't have anything else to do, or rather they don't know what to do. So they have the community waste their time changing names. There are people dying of hunger, disease and things and these silly government officials waste their time changing names.

I hope they don't change India's name to 'Bharath' or something. That would be ludicrous.

PS: IIM, Bangalore will remain IIM, Bangalore just like IIT, Bombay.