Bengaluru Adda

Bengaluru Adda

- 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