Why change the name of a place?
It was really an amazing feeling you go to sleep in your home in one place and wake in a completely new place… that’s what happened to me in Bombay when its name changed to Mumbai.
Lame!!! I know the above statement is really stupid, nothing changed the day the name was changed, now its happening to Bangalore… when ever I raise my voice against the change, the Old Bangaloreans (or Locals) come up with the argument that “its ok when you do it to Mumbai or Chennai, but when it comes to Bangalore there is a lot of problem”, well no it was not OK in either of the places but why follow them. I am not against the changing of the name but the reason that if~otheres~do~it~so~will~we is quite stupid.
Why do we have to change the name? One of my Tamilian friend gave a very good examples (somehow Tamilans tell you everything with an example), one of his friend Sandeep went to US the clients were not able to pronounce his name correctly (how the hell can you not pronounce Sandeep correctly??), so he shortend his name to “Sandy” and was called that for a couple of years and everything went smoothly[citation required] at onsite, after closure of his project he returned to India, “now should we call him Sandy or Sandeep?” asked my friend, “Of course Sandeep” is what I said, you have guessed the rest of the story (in Case you haven’t: since Sandeep came back to people who can call him by his name he should stick to that).
Stretching the same logic in time we ended up having Bangalore and should go back to Bengaluru. Fact is Sandeep never had to do any paper work to change his name, he just had a “Nick name”, now when Bangalore becomes Bengaluru there will be loads of stuff to change. Is it worth it?
The actual reasons that the names of our cities are changed are because the locals never use the imperial name. Talk to any Kannadiga in Kannada and he will call it as Bengaluru… I am not concluding this topic here cause I don’t know how to conclude it.
Post your thought lets see if we can get a better logic.
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