20th February 2008 :: Ban Ganga

Same as yesterday, this shot was shot at Banganga, Walkeshwar in South Bombay. I was talking about bullshit yesterday, another piece of bullshit is the naming of the places. The name of 3 out of 4 metros have been changed. I have not been to Madras or Calcutta so I don't know what the scene there is but here in Bombay there are people like Raj Thackrey who get angry when people say Bombay. While our man was arrested and produced befrore the magistrate, the city was repeatedly called Bombay and he just kept listening. Earlier he told a journalist that no such place exist on the map of India, the name is Mumbai.

Not to mock or irritate anyone I call this place Bombay. What do you call it? On an unrelated note, what do you say is easier to speak “Kolkata” or “Calcutta” and “Madras” or “Chennai”?