Benglooru

Now that Bangalore is off the map and we are back to calling the city by its "original" name, Kannadigas can finally strut it out there. Right along side the Malayalees - Thiruvanthapuram; Tamils - Chennai; Marathas - Mumbai; and Bengalis - Kolkata (may be a few others but these are the more famous ones).

Of course, the name change has done nothing for the actual substance of the city. It is still the same bustling cosmo, struggling to upgrade to New York City version 1.0 and going to shit under the political tutelage of incompetents. Like the rest of India, Benglooru[*] is always on the verge of total collapse and never getting there. Procrastination is a big part of our culture and in keeping with that spirit, it would seem
that the consensus is – let’s collapse tomorrow, can’t be bothered to do it today.

One thing I hate to call it though is the de facto title of being India's Silicon Valley. Benglooru and for that matter any city in India has nothing to give it the SV flavor. Not even close. SV was a hot bed for technology innovation, garage start-ups cracking open the goodies of empirical discovery.

What Bangalore did was provide an oven to bake off all that IP mined in the Stanford
corridors. Yeah, what we have is here is an SV Kitchen folks. The only distinction may be that it was the first successful SV Kitchen. A model to emulate from China to Vietnam to Czechoslovakia (or whatever it is called now) to wherever else you can rent hard working whiz kids for 1/10th the US price tag.

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[*] The spelling Bengalooru tilts the phonetic emphasis making it sound like some hack off the word Bengal. Omit the ‘a’ and you get a better approximation of the actual pronunciation