December 15, 2005

Bengaluru


No jokes.. this is for real!!! Karnataka's chief minister, Dharam Singh, is taking steps to change the name of India's IT capital. The Andhra CM, Chandrababu Naidu builds a Cyber-abad to attract new IT ...theKarnataka CM does this...nice!!

I agree..this is no different than the jingoistic renaming of Bombay, Madras, or Calcutta... but it is still...RIDICULOUS, IMO.
By the way, heard from a Bengalurite (hehe..), that "Bengaluru is from benda-kaal-ooru (boiled-beans-villlage (city)) because of some king who lost his way and was tired and found someone who gave him boiled beans somewhere around Bangalore."

Boiled beans and hot air! City is going to...

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