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U. R. Ananthamurthy got Bangalore’s name officially changed to Bengaluru on the ground that u (oo) was an enabling sound in Kannada.
Values. A city is a living, throbbing organism with a soul of its own and, it would often seem, a thinking mind. Cities have memories and dreams, they nurture ambition and bemoan failure.
Like individuals, cities derive their character from the values associated with them.
The shame of Dharavi, ‘Asia’s largest slum’, inspired native entrepreneurs to float the idea of slum tourism.
In a city’s degradation, too, there is money to be made.
