Once was Bombay

Finished reading this fascinating book by Pinki Virani, about the deterioration of the city of Bombay from it's glorious past to the riot-don-filmi present. Particularly fascinating was "Crime and punishment", "Mazagon, Bombay-10", and "The lala in Winter". It was a very well-researched book, and one could get an inside look into the filmi, don, police worlds.

I did'nt like her being offensive to changing the name of Bombay to the native tongue of Mumbai, VT to Shivaji, etc. As if all our painful history, is just supposed to be meekly accepted. We should forget our local tongue, and start speaking in a firangi accent. That is so demeaning. I feel so proud to say the name of my city in both Bengali and English as Kolkata. Not the stupid anglicized cant-bend-their-tongue-english's Calcutta.