Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Just another thought

Just read something about the much debated topic of Bangalore’s re-christening. “Seek public opinion before going ahead with a name change” is a suggestion I’ve often come across. Exactly how do you propose to do this, I ask. Is it that easy to take a poll across the city/state to come to a consensus? And how can you be sure such a process will be foolproof? What about the monetary expenditure? Are we rich enough to invest on something like this? If we do it through newspapers and magazines, only a small cross section of the populace will be able to cast their vote; would that not be unfair to the family that doesn’t subscribe to a newspaper but is more a part of the city than the guy who’s just moved in from Timbuktu? Just a thought. Wish people would think before putting across their brilliant ideas!

 

* Borrowing your erstwhile blog name for the post Harish.

9 comments:

Sinfully Pinstripe said...

OK, Just another thought.

Seeking public opinion, IMHO, is not about getting everyone's viewpoints. A person who is not reading newspapers or following any forms of mainstream media, would not be able to have a view on the name change, true you are. But that same person will be affected almost negligibly by the name change, won't (s)he? The name change does not affect that person. So what's the point in getting his/her vote on this topic?

I have always maintained that this name change is inconsequential. It was inconsequential for Bombay, for Madras, for Calcutta and inconsequential it will remain for Bangalore. It does not affect me, so am not strident about it.

Anonymous said...

That person(the voter) is negligibly affected by the name change, so is (s)he by poor infrastructure(a hot topic) which affects us. but the collapsing government gains with a good bit of media coverage, n 'that person' will cast his vote again..

Harish said...

Borro on, Gowri. If it'll get you to write more. :)
How're you doing?

Anonymous said...

Gowri,

Thanx for hosting my Srinagar article on your blog.

Rgds,

Arvind Kamath
arvind_kamath@infosys.com

Deepu G Nair [ദീപു] said...

Hi Gowri are you a malayali

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