- 22nd Dec-ender (one day after world's end)
The Bengaluru Bongo Bondhu, Mitwa and
Saathi Group held an adda meeting yesterday to animatedly
deliberate and deliberately articulate an unusual demand by a member.
The meeting was brought to order by the
Chief Bondhu with the words, "sun mere bondhu re", followed by
"sun mere mitwa" and finally "sun mere saathi re".
Before the gathering could break into song, he quickly raised his hand for
silence. Then he spoke.
"We are gathered here to
deliberate upon a most unusual, interesting and thought-provoking demand raised
by our oldest and most revered member", he started. "Why Bengaluru
should not be declared part of or maybe even the capital of our Paschim Bengal?
This is the only topic for discussion today. To help us in our discussions, our
youngest member has very thoughtfully sponsored the snakes. We thank him from
the bottom of our stomachs, ha-ha!”
Over plenty of samosas and kadak chai, the
evening's only topic was animatedly taken up for deliberations.
The state government's decision to
rename Bangalore as Bengaluru had created much
confusion in the minds of the bondhus,
mitwas and saathis, leading them
to think that Bengaluru was part of Bengal .
One member recalled that a participant in a recent radio quiz competition was
asked to name the capital of Bengal . When he
gave the answer as "Bengaluru", he was given a special prize for
"Tangential Thinking", along with a goodie bag containing a cap, a
whistle and a Bengali dictionary written in Kannada!
Another member was of the opinion that
Bengalurians drank so much chai and
coffee that definitely there was some Bengali connection.
A third member wanted to follow the
local tradition of “swalpa adjust maadi”
and slightly adjust Bengaluru to “Bongoluru”. But the watchman (who forgot to
get out of the hall before closing the door) wouldn’t hear of it because he
thought it was “thumba jaasthi adjust
aayithu”. The members agreed with him by 61 votes to 53 and decided not to
adjust but sit still.
Finally, after some more chai (it had become weak chai by then on account of too much
demand and some adjustment by the chai-wallah),
when it was felt that the meeting was getting slightly out of hand, peace was
declared by the Chief Bondhu. Whereupon, some of the elder members, who had
become hongri by then, thought he had
declared peas and insisted on being
served without further ado. So, the meeting adjourned for bhojon and it was decided to continue the discussion at the next adda.
For the time being, therefore, Namma Bengaluru remains the capital of Namma Karnataka.
* Kannada to English
swalpa adjust maadi = please adjust a little bit
thumba jaasthi adjust aayithu = too much has been adjusted
namma = our
* Kannada to English
swalpa adjust maadi = please adjust a little bit
thumba jaasthi adjust aayithu = too much has been adjusted
namma = our
