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Salaam Bombay

How do you define belonging? By the Time you spend in a place? By Quality - the things you do there? By Dependance? By Love? Whichever way I look at it, I belong to Bombay. It is the city...
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rangya_max

Dear Ms Shetty (I hope you publish this :))
Here is the list of cities whose names have been changed since independence. I want you write a useless correction a useful blog on each on them. OK? And please give out reasons why the re-naming of each city should not be done. You can name any body Tom Dick or Harry who born there in your story!
In Andhra Pradesh
* Ellore to Eluru (change effective 1949)
* Waltair to Vizagapatam
* Vizagapatam to Vishakapatnam
* Bezawada to Vijayawada
In Assam
* Nowgong to Nagaon
* Gauhati to Guwahati (change effective 1983)
* Sibsagar to Sivasagar
In Gujarat
* Baroda to Vadodara (change effective 1974)
* Cambay to Khambhat
* Bulsar to Valsad
In Himachal Pradesh
* Simla to Shimla
In Karnataka
* Bangalore to Bengaluru (change effective 2007)
* Mysore to Mysuru (change effective 2007)
* Gulbarga to Kalburgi (change effective 2007)
* Hubli to Hubballi (change effective 2007)
* Shimoga to Shivamogga (change effective 2007)
* Chikmagalur to Chikkamagaluru (change effective 2007)
* Bellary to Ballary (change effective 2007)
* Bijapur to Vijapura (change effective 2007)
* Hospet to Hosapete (change effective 2007)
* Tumkur to Tumakuru (change effective 2007)
In Kerala
* Calicut to Kozhikode
* Cranganore to Kodungallur
* Trichur to Thrissur
* Tellicherry to Thalassery
* Palghat to Palakkad
* Alleppey to Alappuzha (change effective from 1990)
* Trivandrum to Thiruvananthapuram (change effective from 1991)
* Cochin to Kochi (change effective from 1996)
* Cannanore to Kannur
* Quilon to Kollam
* Alwaye to Aluva

In Maharashtra
* Poona to Pune
* Kirkee to Khadki
* Thana to Thane
* Bombay to Mumbai (change effective 1995)
* New Bombay to Navi Mumbai (change effective 1995)

In Puducherry
* Pondicherry to Puducherry (change effective from October 1, 2006)
* Yanaon to Yanam (change effective from merger with Indian Union)
In Punjab
* Jullunder to Jalandhar

( Posted: Thursday , May 15, 2008 at 18:13 )

rangya max

Exactly you belong to BOMBAY. And that exists no longer. In fact it has never existed. For me it has never existed. It was always those outsiders (who as it is never care where they lived as long as the money kept coming) who referred to the city as Bombay. Mainly for style...being different (probably they romanticised with the name...the colonial hangover...anything British is good...even it is barbage! But we will eat that...because its British and different from the vernacular)That is in the blood of Indians...to fight for what is not theirs and kick what is naturally their own!! This Ms Shetty, was born in the city and bred in the same colonial schools like Bombay Scottish and the likes... (the aim of all these schools was to produce students with a mentality to serve the empire)does not want to be told about how to refer to her birthplace? Probably she is also romanticising with the dream...its different from Marathi crowd... and from Kannada crowd (Shetty...right?).She is from a generation which talks too much... (ask her office mates)and does very little (what have you done for the city? Run a marathon, once a year in front of the camera? that is all?)
SALAAM BOMBAY? SWAGATAM BENAGALURU! (I hope Ms Shetty was not born in Bengaluru!)

( Posted: Thursday , May 15, 2008 at 17:58 )

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