I read in Mid-day long time ago that there is a very big threat to our beloved international city which is being turned into a dirty, provincial town. Our hopes of it being a Global Financial Hub are now drowning day-by-day.
Worse soon all our hopes will be permanantly washed away if we keep calling this city, Mumbai.
Therefore every one please say Bombay -- not Mumbai -- so that we are saved from this 'Numerological Disaster' (Mumbai) that was imposed on us by Shiv Sena, aided and abeted by Rajiv Gandhi.
RE:Bombay, not Mumbai
by vivian dsouza on Jul 01, 2007 07:32 PM Permalink
Call it Bombay - Cuaz it sounds beautiful and everyone calls the city Bombay. When i travel back home to bombay, no one at the airport even knows what mumbai is and its sounds sick to use the word mumbai cauz it ryhmes with the name of a servant in bombay. Thats what i got to knows recently from a few people that a servant is called a so called "bai" or something like that. Bombay i emerging into a financial hub and there is no stopping it if we believe we can make a difference and throw out the uneducated politicians and other cheap people from other states that make our bombay so dirty. Hope someday i will make a difference. I love "Bombay" .
RE:Bombay, not Mumbai
by on Jul 01, 2007 10:20 PM Permalink
Saying Bombay is not going to change anything. Change the attitude. Try, make it clean. Mumbai is original name. This was changed by Britishers beacause they could not pronounce Mumbai. How would you feel if someone calls you by diffrent Name?
RE:Bombay, not Mumbai
by on Jul 01, 2007 10:01 PM Permalink
Mumbai is original name. this was changed by britishers. How would you feel if somebody call you with a diffrent name?
