[lbo-talk] shiv Sena & Mumbai

uvj at vsnl.com uvj at vsnl.com
Mon Jan 26 18:26:06 PST 2004


Doug Henwood wrote:


> Hmm, so what should good anti-fascists call it? I still want to say
> Leningrad; St Petersburg sticks in my craw.

I don't know about the original names, but the Left Front is not averse to changing names. e.g. Calcutta and Trivandrum were very recently changed to Kolkata and Tiruananthpuram respectively. Changing Bombay to Mumbai is no worse than changing Peking to Beijing. Saigon is now Ho Chi Minh City.

Ulhas



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