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Dear Bangalore city we wanted to rename you to “Bengaluru”
Politicians have a penchant for announcing intent with fanfare and then having little diligence to follow through with action. The classic example is the renaming of Bangalore and other cities to alternate names.
A quick background this issue:
- 11-Dec-2005: Karnataka government announced that it had accepted the proposal by Jnanpeeth awardee U R Ananthamurthy to rename Bangalore to its Kannada name Bengaluru.
- 27-Sep-2006: Bangalore Mahanagara Palike passed a resolution to implement the proposed name change.
- 7-Oct-2006: Karnataka Government accepted this resolution.
- 1-Nov-2006: Karnataka Government implements the name officially, pending central government clearances.
It is one thing to announce a name change for a city. However, managing the change and implementing it thoroughly is another. Granted change takes time and people need time to adjust. But still, are the politicians who announced these with fanfare doing enough to implement the change.
Here is a sampling of what people call the city:
There are some who call it Bengaluru:
- The city’s Airport is called Bengaluru Airport.
- BBMP (city corporation) calls it Bengaluru thankfully!
- Kingfisher Airlines and Jet Airways call it Bengaluru.
- Wikipedia redirects Bengaluru to Bangalore. The article refers to the city many times as Bengaluru.
There are others who still call it Bangalore:
- The Indian Railways calls the city Bangalore.
- Incredible India, India’s widely publicized Tourism pitch calls it Bangalore.
- The “Namma Metro” BMRCL is no better. It calls the city Bangalore not withstanding the local pitch for the Metro!
- BDA (city development authority) is no better, it is out of sync with BBMP (corporation) on the city’s name.
- BangaloreOne, BESCOM, BWSSB (Water and sewage board), BCP (city police), BMLTA (Land Transport authority), still use the previous name Bangalore.
- And believe it or not, the official Karnataka government website still calls the city Bangalore!!
Guess what, the average Bangalorean (Bengalurean for others) still calls the city Bangalore!
Picture this. Imagine you were traveling to the city and didn’t know what to call it? – Bangalore / Bengaluru / Bangalooru?! The state government really needs a serious reality check. They need to get their together and get this issue sorted out pronto!
To add to this now the Official Karnataka website now redirects to www.karunadu.gov.in already. Renaming Karnataka to Karunadu is probably in the works!
If the government is really serious about the name change, here is what they need to do:
- Work with the central government to jointly and rapidly implement the change.
- Lead by example and implement the change in all state government bodies, websites and forums.
- Have clear rules that enforce the change.
- Ensure billboard, hoardings, websites uniformly reflect the change.
- Manage the change actively with the clear transition plan.
- Run a re-branding campaign for the city. This needs to be a global campaign (take professional help). Bangalore is a name that is etched in minds of people globally. Changing it is not so easy.
The real issue is one of urgent and rapid implementation, than everyone being stuck mid way through a half hearted implementation. May be U.R. Ananthamurthy the prime advocate of the name change should voice his concern to about the slow and half hearted implementation.
Related news stories:
- City of boiled beans – The Hindu, 25-Jul-2002
- Many miles to go from Bangalore to Bengalooru – Deccan Herald, 30-Oct-2006 (see a leading local newspaper spells it Bengalooru and not Bengaluru)
- Bangalore says no to Bengaluru – Times of India, 31-Oct-2006
- Its official Bangalore is now Bengaluru – Times of India, 2-Nov-2006
- Center mum on Bengaluru – The Hindu, 18-Dec-2007
- Here lies the Bengaluru inscription – Deccan Herald
- Millennium old Begur temple tells the story of Bengaluru - Citizen matters, 16-Dec-2009
Books:
- Bengaluru, Bangalore, Bengaluru: Imaginations and their Times, Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd (January 1, 2010), ISBN-10: 8132103033
Wikipedians meetup in Bangalore
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Wikipedians in Bangalore had a meetup on Sunday after a long while. The Meetup was hosted by Tinu Cherian at his home (Thanks Tinu). The excitement was palpable and the buzz was all around.
Many of the wikipedians who were present were meeting for the first time with the exception of few of us. Many were excited to match wiki userid to face. There were some wikipedians from various age groups – some in 12 grade, few others working professionals (@LogicWiki for e.g.) and we had a 71 year old wikipedian retired from government service (@Nvvchar). There were wikipedians who had just started contributing content a few days back while there were others who have been wikipedians for close to 5 years (@Gurubrahma, @Arunram).
There were wikipedians with various passions and expertise. Some had a passion for creating DYKs – Did you knows (@Nvvchar). There were wikipedians who were contributors to multiple wikipedia language editions (@Shijualex
). There were others who were sysops (@Gurubrahma), Bot authors (@Tinucherian). Others were passionate about getting the community more connected and organised (@Arunram). There were others who did a Houdini (i.e. they didn’t show up for the meet but were surely missed)!
A lot of interesting discussions took place. A few of them highlighted.
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- Challenges faced by new Wikipedians. How experienced wikipedian could help them better.
- Indian wikipedians and their participation in the larger governance of wikipedia.
- Difficulties in getting approvals for Bots that create articles.
- Attempts by Wikipedians present to create pages for all towns in Kerala and Karnataka.
- What it takes to get a admin nomination through successfuly. Experience sharing by active admins.
- The paradox of “Notability” - Notability being a pre requisite for a wikipedia article candidate and how being listed in wikipedia improves “Notability”.
- Difficulties in getting pictures for Indian monuments and notable personalities from government sources.
- Lack of awareness of Wikipedia in regional bureaucrats at the state level as was experienced by a wikipedian.
- Review process being over stringent at times. At times being a put off for new contributors.
- Need for Indian wikipedians to share experience, expertise, connect and support each other actively.
- Need to get better coverage to key personalities and content. One wikipedian observed that at times the demise of a personality is what triggers article creation.
- Discussion of automated tools AWB and Twinkle.
- The need for Indian language wikipedians and other Indian Wikipedians to collaborate.
- The need for greater promotion of Wikipedia in Indian languages. It was observed that many did not know of wikipedia in Indian languages.
- Expanding the wikipedia editor base, need to connect to other specialised/focused groups (to bring them into the wikipedia).
- One of the wikipedians emphasised the need to bring Wikimania to India.
- Wiki Academies were proposed to be conducted across Karnataka cities to bring more wikipedians into the fold. Colleges to be the focus within Bangalore.
- It was proposed that a Meetup of Bangalore wikipedians be held every month. Sunday afternoons mid month was agreed as the monthly catch up window.
It was one exciting meet up. The next one is coming up in a month. If you missed this time around stay tuned for the announcements for the next edition here.
Disclosure: This blog author is wikipedian @arunram and referred to in this post.
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Its raining Project Management conferences in Bangalore
If you are a Project Management professional in Bangalore or anywhere in the Indian sub continent its time – to get out of you cubicles and pause your meetings to block your calendars!
It’s raining PM conferences in Bangalore! – 3 of them this year!
Its a great time for you to get out there and meet your peers from various organizations, share experiences, challenges, share tool expertise and best practices.
All this only indicate the demand for PM practitioners to come together and share. After all Bangalore is the hub of a lot of IT, Space, Construction, Aeronautics among other industries.
PML conference by QAI – May 30 – 31, 2008
This conference by QAI promises 2 days of action packed at Le Meridien with 12 plenary speakers and 18 papers and practices. The highlight of the conference is the Project Management Leadership Award – “Leadership Recognized“. There is a panel discussion on the “Emerging challenges for Indian project managers in global context”. One of the interesting talks is by Tarak Bajaj of Delphi on “Project Management for TATA Nano Electronics cluster”. The conference cover only the IT industry. Conference fee is Rs. 7500. 14 PDUs for participation.
SPM ICON 2008 by QSIT – July 17 – 19, 2008 Batman ipod
QSIT‘s conference at Leela Palace is 2 day conference with one earlier day covering tutorials. There are 4 tutorials on the 17th of July on rather familiar PM topics. There are 2 key notes – Lakshmi Narayanan (Chairman, NASSCOM) and
Raj Kalady (PMI). There are 10 key talks and 12 paper presentations. The is also a panel discussion on the topic “Managing Projects in a Global context” (almost identical to the PML panel discussion!!! sign of the times?!). 26 PDUs for 3 days.
PMPC 2008 by PMI Bangalore – September 18 – 20, 2008
The Project Management Practitioner’s conference 2008 (PMPC) – This is one of the most awaited and prestigious PM conference of the year organized by PMI Bangalore at “The Capitol”. The conference has been announced to be held from 18th to 20th of September this year.
Killing Zoe video The conference seeks to bring together Project Management practitioners and the key stakeholders namely – Industry, Academia, Government and Society. The conference seeks to brings Project management learnings from large projects from various industries.
Last year’s conference had – 3 days, 7 keynotes, 28 speakers, 3 panel discussions and 10 industries
. Some of the key speakers of last year included T.R.Anand (Satyam), N.S.Parthasarathy (MindTree), Dr. Prahlada (DRDO), Sqn. Ldr. B.C. Srikanta (ADA), Stéphane Vesval (EADS) amongst others.
(Disclosure: the blog post author is associated with PMI Bangalore)
More the merrier
The numerous PM conferences only underscore the need for better Program and Project and the huge demand for PM practitioners in the burgeoning IT services industry. And it is interesting to note that vendors like Serena and iPlan are sponsoring more than one event. And don’t be surprised if all of these run full capacity.
The demand for Project management is simply there in abundance to fuel all these conferences!
Pangea day – my impressions
The show started at 11 PM and went on into the early hours around 3 ish. it sure was fun to watch these videos together with so many others! Surely more fun than watching it from home on the Star Network which screened the event live.
The were numerous celebrties speak from around the world, musicians and of course the 40 select vides as well. Here are some things I liked from the evening – videos, people et al.
Some videos were touching…
This video about six Sierra Leonean refugees in a West African refugee camp who came together to form a band to cheer up other refugees. I found their music rustic and addictive.
Some videos were very creative…
There was this film made by Sumit Roy from New Delhi about the “dancing queen”. It is very creative, keeps you guessing and wondering till the touching climax in the end! I really loved this one. And every one around applauded spontaneously when it ended. And guess what this one was short on a Nokia phone!!!
Some were rather inspiring…
I am reminded of another called Papiroflexia which means “origami” in spanish. It is an animation and imaginative piece about a man who is skilled and can shape the worlds ills with his hands! If wishes were horses this guy could change the world! It was nice and symbolic and set one thinking (me for sure) on what all we do to mess up the world around us.
The event had some interesting people…
Gilberto Gil The Caretaker T.A.C.T.I.C.A.L. full is a singer, guitarist and guess what the current Brazilian Minister of Culture. He was one helluva character and got everyone tapping to his number he was singer and playing along on the guitar. He was singing for peace! What an appropiate minister for “culture”! Inspiring… His number still rings in my ears… Dont miss his performance here.
In summary, it was a fun event… and a noble attempt… It was great thought to connect audiences in 6 cities across the world live, get celebrities to support the cause and speak up for it. the 40 videos were a kaleidoscope into the world and various issues facing us all.
The were things that could have been better. The event could have had the hosts from various cities to make it even more global. Some of the themes carried the usual western prototypes of the world. There was a lot of focus on the suffering from the “middle east” and “africa”. I thought there was way too much emphasis. A wider view of the world would have been nicer.
If you are rueing the fact that you missed it, wait… you cans ee the who program here. You can also see all the 40 videos that were screened here and here. фото больших членов кончил в анал
It's Pangea day tonight! At GMT 18:00 or 23:30 IST
I came across an interesting global event called Pangea Day that seeks bring people together through films! And you can participate in this from wherever you are in the world. Even back home in Bangalore at the Thoughtworks office memento dvdrip
at Airport road.
Pangea Day – as the organizers put it – is a global event bringing the world together through film. It seeks to help people see themselves in others – through the power of film.
Starting at 18:00 GMT or 11:30 PM India on May 10, 2008 (tonight), locations in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be linked for a live program of powerful films, live music, and visionary speakers. The entire program (24 films selected globally) being broadcast – in seven languages – to millions of people worldwide through the internet, television, and mobile phones. The films were chosen based on their ability to inspire, transform, and allow us see the world through another person’s eyes.
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Jane Austen’s Mafia! on dvd I cant wait to meet people at the event and check out these movies that are meant to inspire. Its 20 mins to the event and I got to get to Thoughtworks.
If cant make it to the event at your city, or online, follow it on twitter!
http://www.twitter.com/pangeaday
Barcamp Bangalore 5 – the team behind it!
A week after Barcamp Bangalore 2007 Youth Without Youth full winter edition aka BCB5, the team that worked behind the scenes to put it together met up at Rendezvous at Koramangala to chill out and have fun post event. After BCB5 tag line was “chill out”!
Its a great team and we all enjoy great camaraderie and team spirit. Every one of these guys has a busy week day. Come weekend we all came together to think BCB and its execution. просто красивая девчонка
The picture says it all – the energy, the spirit and the passion to team and make a difference.
From left clock wise…. Amit Singh (green jacket), Arun Ramarathnam (yours truly!), Kesava Reddy, Shourya Sarcar
(red tee), Suresh B, Kiran Jonnalagadda (face partially hidden), Aashish Solanki, Pradeep BV (struggling to raise his face), Akash Mahajan, Nishant Baranwal, Srinivas Yelandur and Harinath Pudipeddi (hand in pocket).
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It is one great team that rocks!
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Meeting with MN Vidyashankar – Karnataka's IT secretary
It was a good two hour long meeting with the IT secretary of Karnataka M.N Vidyashankar last evening. The meeting was called for by the IT secretary to reach out to Bloggers in the city and share his vision for IT initiatives in the state and BangaloreIT.in in particular.
It was a nice gesture on his part to reach out to bloggers and take out two hours from his schedule. We had an open discussion on the various initiatives. He was very open to ideas, suggestions and critical opinion.
It was a great evening and I would make a detailed post on this soon….
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PMI Bangalore celebrates a year of learning and sharing
PMI Bangalore chapter is celebrating a year of ongoing learning and sharing in Project Management practices amongst practitioners on the 18th of October, 2007. PM Footprints is our fortnightly session wherein practitioners have been meeting to share experiences, challenges and best practices in project management across industries.
We have been meeting….
Every fortnight
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27 talks
18 organizations
Same place and same time
Its been one great year of learning and sharing…
To celebrate this high point of learning, we are having the PM Footprints 1st Anniversary meeting where we are inviting distinguished speakers from leading academic institutions in Bangalore. We are privileged to have the following speak at this occasion.
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Prof. S. Sadagopan, Founder Director IIIT-Bangalore |
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Prof. K B Akhilesh Pale Rider divx Indian Institute of Science. |
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Mr. Shankar Venkatagiri Asst. Professor IIM Bangalore |
If you are in Bangalore on the18th of October and are in the profession of Project Management you should be there. For more details…. check the PMI Bangalore chapter website. You can also contact me at +91 98451 47383.
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