The curious battle between Bombay and Mumbai

By Garga Chatterjee There is a section of the Bombay-not-Mumbai crowd that refuses to admit even temporary defeat to Maharashtra or Mumbai. When Amol Rajan, the Kolkata-born editor of a British newspaper, recently decided to start using the term Bombay in his daily to refer to what most people in Mumbai have always referred to […]

By Garga Chatterjee There is a section of the Bombay-not-Mumbai crowd that refuses to admit even temporary defeat to Maharashtra or Mumbai. When Amol Rajan, the Kolkata-born editor of a British newspaper, recently decided to start using the term Bombay in his daily to refer to what most people in Mumbai have always referred to […]

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