Recently the politicians of India are down with the fever of renaming the city. They claim its because they want to preserve the culture of the people living there. If you go back to see when and why these renaming started, it all happened to fit into the tougue flexing capabilities of the people in power during the colonial rule.
Yes I do agree that the culture needs to be preserved but does the name change help that. There are lot other ways to preserve it by providing proper monetary backup, support for the people who get involved in literature and culture.
I don't see any people of the cities getting neurotic on calling Calcutta or Madras or Bombay.
Recently the name change for Bangalore hits the newspaper headlines. They may point out Mumbai and other cities as example and are they ready to take those cities as examples in other fields too?.
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