Bro if you don't care why you have to post it
Calling it Bombay is pejorative, just because the british couldnt pronounce Indian names they made it Bombay as per their liking, just like Niggers,jigaboos and all racist terms used by white people to describe blacks.
I think it is upto to people of India to decide the name of their city, not some London based journalist.
London: British newspaper The Independent will switch back to using Bombay rather thanMumbai when referring to India's financial capital, its editor said Wednesday.
Amol Rajan said the move was a stand against what he said was the closed-minded view of Hindu nationalists.
The city was officially renamed Mumbai in 1995, a change forced through by the far-right Shiv Sena party. However, within the city, the old colonial name and the Marathi-language name are often used interchangeably.
"The whole point of Bombay is of an open, cosmopolitan port city, the gateway of India that's open to the world," said Rajan, who was born in Kolkata -- formerly known as Calcutta -- and raised in London.
"If you call it what Hindu nationalists want you to call it, you essentially do their work for them," the 32-year-old told BBC radio.
"As journalists, as someone who edits The Independent, it's incredibly important to be specific about our terminology.
"I'd rather side with the tradition of India that's been open to the world, rather than the one that's been closed, which is in ascendance right now," he said, referring to the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.
Their coalition partner Shiv Sena is strongly pro-Marathi, the dominant language and ethnic group in the state of Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is the capital.
Rajan said post-colonial India had the "open, secular, pluralist and tolerant" tradition of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and independence leader Mahatma Gandhi.
It also had a "slightly nastier strain of Hindu nationalism" and it was important to "venerate the tradition of India which shows the best of India -- an open metropolis".
Shiv Sena renamed the western Indian city after the goddess Mumbadevi, the protector of fisherman who were the area's original inhabitants.
Marathi speakers had always called the city "Mumbai", and the move was popular among that community, whereas "Bombay" was an anglicised take on the Portuguese colonial name "Bom Bahia", or "good bay".
UK newspaper 'The Independent' to use 'Bombay' instead of Mumbai as stand against 'Hindu nationalism' | Zee News
Ya...big whoop.... so what... i still call Bangalore...Bangalore... instead of Bengaluru... call it whatever you like.
London: British newspaper The Independent will switch back to using Bombay rather thanMumbai when referring to India's financial capital, its editor said Wednesday.
Amol Rajan said the move was a stand against what he said was the closed-minded view of Hindu nationalists.
The city was officially renamed Mumbai in 1995, a change forced through by the far-right Shiv Sena party. However, within the city, the old colonial name and the Marathi-language name are often used interchangeably.
"The whole point of Bombay is of an open, cosmopolitan port city, the gateway of India that's open to the world," said Rajan, who was born in Kolkata -- formerly known as Calcutta -- and raised in London.
"If you call it what Hindu nationalists want you to call it, you essentially do their work for them," the 32-year-old told BBC radio.
"As journalists, as someone who edits The Independent, it's incredibly important to be specific about our terminology.
"I'd rather side with the tradition of India that's been open to the world, rather than the one that's been closed, which is in ascendance right now," he said, referring to the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.
Their coalition partner Shiv Sena is strongly pro-Marathi, the dominant language and ethnic group in the state of Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is the capital.
Rajan said post-colonial India had the "open, secular, pluralist and tolerant" tradition of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and independence leader Mahatma Gandhi.
It also had a "slightly nastier strain of Hindu nationalism" and it was important to "venerate the tradition of India which shows the best of India -- an open metropolis".
Shiv Sena renamed the western Indian city after the goddess Mumbadevi, the protector of fisherman who were the area's original inhabitants.
Marathi speakers had always called the city "Mumbai", and the move was popular among that community, whereas "Bombay" was an anglicised take on the Portuguese colonial name "Bom Bahia", or "good bay".
UK newspaper 'The Independent' to use 'Bombay' instead of Mumbai as stand against 'Hindu nationalism' | Zee News
What about Indian Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and others why not India a hindu state in Indian constitution ? Did Modi interoduce new constitution or RSS charter is enough ?
No Sir i can discuss any thing which i like, if you have any problem you can ignore this thread.
Then you should call entire 1.25 billions as ultra nationalists .
Officially and for official means it would be always Mumbai for entire Indians
Thats just silly.. 1.3 billion Indians didn't have a say in it, Or what it was called.. Only the Shiv Sena did.. Anyway i'm not arguing about the right of the British press say in it.. They don't have a right.. Even though the journalist is of Indian origin
They should change Bollywood in to Mollywood and all the other things that was synonymous with Bombay.. Why keep some things when it suits you but discard other with such a hue and cry chest thumping ??
