The real name of Bangalore was always Bengaluru and kannadigas always referred it to as Bengaluru. If Bombay can be mumbai, madras can be chennai whats the problem in Bengaluru
RE:Good work by govt.
by Indian on Feb 20, 2008 07:26 PM Permalink
Yes but tamilians generally dont speak tamil so freely as much as they speak kannada - the reason - u know why
RE:Good work by govt.
by Hemant on Feb 20, 2008 07:32 PM Permalink
Bangalore is still a kannadiga city only. But Tamil and Telugus are coming to that city looking for a greener patches
RE:Good work by govt.
by on Feb 20, 2008 08:44 PM Permalink
don't laugh there is a way out of this mess.
In Kolkatta all the propah people at Calcutta Club still say Calcutta.
In Madras ... let's leave it till they remove those dark glasses. Chennai Chenni Chinndi, (get creative now). But as far as I know they never said Madras. They pronounced it Med-drass.
In Mumbai only we ghats and ofcourse the Gujjus who speak in Marathi (or Gujarati) use Mumbai. The rest say Bumbai... which irks some of our Marathi manoos with quirks due to our collective inferiority complex ... but not the likes of:
Usha Kiron, Shanta Gokhale and many more some of whom are listed below. I Have heard say BOMBBAY.
Dinesh Keskar at Boeing
Vikram Pandi CEO of CITGROUP
Sachin Tendulkar
Kirloskars
Lokmanya TILAK
Dr Kashinath Ghanekar
V Shataram, Chitalkar Ramchandra, Vasant Desai, Master Bhagwan, Master Dattarm, Nanda, Nootan & Tanuja and Shobhana (their mother), Lata, Asha, Suman Kalyanpur, Usha Mangeshkar, MadhuriDixit, Varsha Usgaonkar, Shilpa Shirodkar, Urmila Martondkar, Namtra Shirodkar, Shobha Khote, Durga Khote, Viju Khote and so on and on ...
Those who were born or brought up in Bombay will say Bombbay.
So do you still want a beng a luru, in english, go right ahead.
RE:Good work by govt.
by --- on Feb 20, 2008 07:24 PM Permalink
Absolutely nothing is wrong with it. Even the Govt Transport buses of neighbouring states had boards saying Bengalooru, Mysuru and Mangaluru in Telugu/Tamil/Malayalam (where applicable). So what is this fuss all about?
