Bangalore is actually called Bengaluru
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
For example, Google Maps redirects Bangalore to Bengaluru, whereas it does not for Moscow.
Bengaluru: https://www.google.com/maps/place/bangalore
In this case it is really just a political move to push back against colonial times by changing the English names of Indian cities (not only Bangalore) to strict local orthography. The fact that English is used as a common language in India may play a role in that push because they probably see a need to define names in English (which is ironic).
It also depends on the language. China also did that for Beijing, Guangzhou, etc. It worked in English but e.g. in French nobody cared and the 'French' names are still used, the same largely goes for the name of Indian cities.
It is definitely political. In this case they're resetting the original name that was anglicised when they were colonised. Would it not be courteous to respect that?
Respect starts by not forcing pronunciation on foreign languages and not calling how they pronounce words "not real" (which is what you wrote in the title of your post and what I took offence with).
Edit: Bangalore is called Bengaluru in Kannada. That's about it.
If the country renames itself, they're free to do that. But if the international name will probably stay the same for a long while, one has to live with that, or start some campaign to make the altered name better known (mind, the intentionally used name will eventually converge with the self-choosen name).
The title does not say Bangalore is not a 'real name'. That is your intepretation, presumably to justify your argument.
> Respect starts by not forcing pronunciation on foreign languages
Not forcing anything, it was posted as informational. The tone in the link or my comments is not forceful. Your own tone, however? Again, framed justification.
> Edit: Bangalore is called Bengaluru in Kannada. That's about it.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bangalore&t=h_&ia=web&iaxm=maps
https://www.google.com/maps/place/bangalore
https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=bangalore#map=12/...
Not just Kannada, all of the above mapping services "actually" recognise Bangalore as Bengaluru. But, if you don't want to do that or take offence to a perspective that differs from yours, that is your prerogative.
The title of this thread at the time I posted my comments was "The real name of Bangalore is Bengaluru".
You obviously know that this you are the poster.
HN is about honest discussion... You see to have starting this with an agenda in mind.
Since you know so well what HN is about, you'll know that you should read the content of what is posted and not just drive-by comment based on the title. Then it should have been clear that the post had nothing to do with denying Bangalore as a "real name".
The only agenda was to inform people about something I came across that I thought was interesting. That what a lot of people still refer to as Bangalore has had it's name changed by the Indian government to Bengaluru and that people should probably start using that name.