> As for Mumbai, it has always been called "Mumbai' by the overwhelming
> majority of people here. AFAIK, the Indian Left has not opposed such
> changes anywhere in India.
> Common language has been the basis for the formation for many states
> in India.
>
We can only hope that someone has a keystroke macro in the works to answer the politics of renaming question(s).
But a question regarding 'common language', if I may. Is sign (language) universal across cultures?