Bengaluru

Bangalore is sometimes referred to as the “Silicon Valley of India” (or “IT capital of India”) because of its role as the nation's leading information technology (IT) exporter. Indian technological organisations ISRO, Infosys, Wipro and HAL are headquartered in the city.

The government of Karnataka accepted the proposal and it was decided to officially implement the name change from 1 November 2006. The Union government approved this request, along with name changes for 11 other Karnataka cities, in October 2014. Hence, Bangalore was renamed to Bengaluru on 1 November 2014.

Bengaluru is a transliteration of the original spelling, according to state historians. In recent years regional groups and prominent writers demanded the name of the city, home to six million people, be changed to better reflect the local language.

The shift from colonial-era “Bangalore” to the indigenous “Bengaluru” mirrors India's journey from post-colonial resurgence to cultural revival.

Bangalore Kannada. Bangalore Kannada is a vernacular dialect of the Indian language, Kannada, which serves as the official language of the state of Karnataka, as the native language by the majority people of Karnataka classical languages of India. This dialect is primarily spoken by youth and in informal discourse between locals.