i heard the name of the town bangalore originally was bendha kaaLooru = vendha kadalai oor. it was then a famous town for boiled groundnut sales or something like that and hence got the name.
mangalore = mangala-ooru named after presiding deity mangalaambiga. even now keralites call mangalore as mangalapuri (you can hear that even in the kerala railway station announcement in malayaaLam).
I’ll tell you where all this comes from. The Kannada lobbyists is working overtime now in their demand to make Kannada as one of the classical languages. With the recent rule that the language should have a 1500 year old history to be called as a classical one, the Kannada lobby is finding it difficult to stake claim as they themselves admit that they do not have enough clinching evidence to prove it thought they have a few bits & pieces of data that is 1500 years old. With the classical status demand getting some momentum, it would not look like if the state capital’s name itself is not in the native language. This name change is also in the same direction.
Prabhu,
it’s Bengal-oo-ru, I hear. U R Ananthamoorthy has corrected the CM’s statement that it’s not Bengaluru. I read this in today’s paper.
Another change in your blog category?
ferrari,unmaiyaa-vaa solreenga?nambavae mudiyilae!first bombay.then madras.then calcutta.ippo b’lore.appo delhi dilli aagumaa?hyderabad hyderaba*** aagumaa?
ferro
couple of snippets.
i heard the name of the town bangalore originally was bendha kaaLooru = vendha kadalai oor. it was then a famous town for boiled groundnut sales or something like that and hence got the name.
mangalore = mangala-ooru named after presiding deity mangalaambiga. even now keralites call mangalore as mangalapuri (you can hear that even in the kerala railway station announcement in malayaaLam).
Pengaloorunnu rename panaadhe varaikku seri dhaan
What?!? That’s news to me…
Beeeen – gaaaa – loooooo – rooooo
Aaah! It will take me time to pronounce it right..
I’ll tell you where all this comes from. The Kannada lobbyists is working overtime now in their demand to make Kannada as one of the classical languages. With the recent rule that the language should have a 1500 year old history to be called as a classical one, the Kannada lobby is finding it difficult to stake claim as they themselves admit that they do not have enough clinching evidence to prove it thought they have a few bits & pieces of data that is 1500 years old. With the classical status demand getting some momentum, it would not look like if the state capital’s name itself is not in the native language. This name change is also in the same direction.
Prabu,
Some more info on history of Bangalore in
http://www.desikan.com/blogcms/?item=0-5-46
regards
- desikan
“Vendha Kadalai ooru” – very fitting.
kadalai ooru no wonder neenga anga irukeenga ferro
they might as well rename as bendakaluru… why take the pain of changing it later? huh?!
Prabhu,
it’s Bengal-oo-ru, I hear. U R Ananthamoorthy has corrected the CM’s statement that it’s not Bengaluru. I read this in today’s paper.
Another change in your blog category?
Neha so true so true
Idhu epdi onakku mattum ipdi ellam thonudhunnu me wondering now 
kannraavi!
sheky,
Theriyaliye paa
cacaphonix,
I had read this info in desikan’s blog
Uma,
I wont be surprised
Insidemamind,
He he
Maverick,
You have a point there
Desikan,
Yes sir. I have seen that. I remember your peNgaLooru series
Balaji,
He he
Neha and Uma,
rubic_cube,
Good one
Zero,
He he. I will wait for the official confirmation
curses,
Hmmm