Benda Kaal Ooru: Investors- Solpa Adjust Maadi
Recently I heard a town in the US being renamed to 'Dish' for a year in exchange for 10 years of free dish network for the whole town! How queer is that! Well there was another town few years back during the dot com hype, which renamed itself Half.com for sometime. And of course not so long ago in India, Madras became Chennai, Bombay became Mumbai, Trivandrum to Thiruvananthapuram and Calcutta became Kolkata! And now to top them all, Bangalore is to be restored to its former glory- Bengaluru!
Unlike in the US, where city officials hold several meetings with their residents before taking such an extreme step; in India the politicians do not doubt the fact that they just own these cities! Have they ever done the math behind the change? Oh yes! They probably did consider how many more votes they might bag in the next election with this stunt!
Bangalore is a brand name! It is the Silicon Valley of India. History is great but changing a name at this point is the dumb thing to do! Mr Dharam Singh, if only you could repair the numerous pot holes, ease the traffic system and think for the future- you could write yourself a name in history too. But changing the brand name would not only cost millions of dollars in tax money but will ruin the hard work of millions who have neon-lit that name on the world map.
PS:If any reader is aware of an online petition to 'Stop Renaming Bangalore', please forward it to me.
posted by RadioActive Ray at 6:47 AM
2 Comments:
It seems to me that people who have left Indian shores to set themselves up on the global stage are keenly aware of "brand" Bangalore and its unbecoming due to the "official" renaming!
In the most idealistic sense, instead of activist and politicians pushing their personal agenda, put up the name change issue to a public plebiscite. Let each and every resident of the city's vote count.
Ha ha if only they were that smart or say polished in their thinking!
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