“I’ve Just Been Bengaluru’d?”

The Indian state of Karnataka announced in the Times of India that the technology hub of Bangalore will be renamed Bengaluru by November 1st, 2006.  This change follows three previous name changes: Bombay -> Mumbai, Calcutta -> Kolkata, and Madras -> Chennai.  Reasons for the change usually revolve around, “Why do we have to call our cities what the British called them?”