Say "Goodbye" to Mumbai.
And consider the apparently unironic words of Aditya Chakrabortty:
"In Bengal soon after local-boy economist Amartya Sen won the Nobel prize in 1998, I passed a petrol station defaced by a blob of spray paint that read: "Calcutta is proud of its son Amartya Sen." That's Kolkata for you: even the graffiti artists have postgraduate degrees."
In Bombay, neither the High Court nor the Stock Exchange will any truck with the name-changing imposed from outside by the people who fought for the Japanese during the War, who shot Gandhi, who butchered trainloads of Sikhs in the 1980s, and who routinely burn Muslims, Christians and Dalits out of their homes. Clearly, the graffitists of Calcutta feel the same way.
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Your neo-imperialist rantings become more madder by the day. The next thing is you will be demanding that Counties Leix and Offally return back to Queen's and King's county and Cobh to Queenstown. No doubt you claim that Sir Bob Geldof was born in Kingstown.
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Google is a menace in the hands of the likes of you.
ReplyDeleteNote that he is called Sir Bob, even though, unlike Sir Terry, he was born long after his country left the Commonwealth.
Sweet simple little BDJ. David is advocating the names used by the inhabitants instead of the names imposed by Far Right terrorists. BDJ signs up to Far Right terrorists. No surprise there.
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