That not withstanding, the move was desired and favoured by many, wasnt it? I mean, from somebody who has lived all around the country for many years, Bangalore was and remains a more hostile place resistant to me as an outsider. And I am not saying this as a poor victim full of righteous indignation...but I can see how traditional structures of identity and linguistic articulation have been undermined in the matter of a few years and can perhaps understand the discontent that the local might experience.
It was perhaps easier in a state like gujarat where the language got slowly eroded over fifty odd years...so much so that now fluent gujarati is a thing of privilege in the urban pockets. I guess the state, now that it has proved its inefficacy in providing the infrastructure for the dreams it promised, needed to be seen doing at least something...And I guess changing names is the easiest thing ever.
Nishant
On 12/13/05, Jessica Prabhakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Umm..I think the crores that will go into renaming
everything.. from legal paperwork to what-have-you
could have been better used.
Bangalore is known internationally .. 'Bangalored' is
a widely-used phrase.. so now it'll be Bengaloorued???
Any side-effects that the first half of the name
spells Bengal?
In Kannada it was pronounced Bengalooru anyway...so
technically the two names always existed.
Jess
--- Nishant Shah < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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