Sunday 17 May 2009

Deny Chennai

The people of India quite obviously feel that, when it comes to the city where the BBC started its election coverage, the name of that city is Madras. Congress, for all its undeniable faults, has beaten the BJP. And the unreconstructed Communist parties, for that matter.

We owe it to the massacred Muslims of Gujarat, to the massacred Christians of Orissa, and to the massacred Dalits all over the place, just for a start, not to call cities by names invented and imposed by their murderers. Especially since those murderers have no been given a thoroughly good hammering, all the better for being unexpected, at the ballot box.

Bombay Sapphire, anyone?

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