IMHO this has got nothing to do with either the progress or introjection of the city into the past. When shiv sena did it with Bombay, they too were playing the same politics. I think this is one of the last vestiges of the fact that Indian states were created on the basis of language...and now that the outsider is no longer the fair skinned seven seas invader but from within the nation - Bangalore is facing huge migration right now, about 5,000 new people every month - the traditional Kannadiga identity faces a huge threat.

This move at renaming is a recognition of the fact that the outsiders cannot be stopped anymore but the local can be created - even if only in the language and the signage that identifies a particular place. I don't see what the big deal about renaming the city is...most cities have two names anyway. Ahmedabad, for example, for any localite will always be Amdawad and it doesn't create a lot of problem.

This is just a political move to assuage the rising local hostilities to make things easier for the embrace of globalisation - without which of course, we will all die and be poor and illiterate. sob!

Nishant

On 12/12/05, Jessica Prabhakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


--- Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 12/12/05, Jessica Prabhakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > He seems determined to drag Bangalore back into
> the
> > 70s or earlier. A pot of beans?
>
> Bangalore was called Bengaluru in the '70s ??? Or do
> you mean something else?
>
> -- b
>
> PS: I didn't know you were on this list. Welcome!
>
>

He seems to be retracting all progress made by the
previous CM.. step by step.

Yes, been lurking for a year or more.. I think I
beeped now and then!

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