To: Red Badger
New City names in India : -
Bombay - Mumbai
Calcutta - Kolkata
Bangalore - Bengaluru
Frankly we East Indians still call it Bombay .
To: Indian_Fighter_Kite
Oh, Kolkata just doesn't have the same ring to it...............
22 posted on
11/26/2008 10:15:02 AM PST by
Red Badger
(Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
To: Indian_Fighter_Kite
I like that "Bengaluru".
It sounds like something Desi Arnez would play with his Cuban band.
23 posted on
11/26/2008 10:22:15 AM PST by
happygrl
(BORG: Barack 0bama Resistance Group: we will not be assimilated)
To: Indian_Fighter_Kite
Frankly we East Indians still call it Bombay . I have an Indian friend who was raised there and he still calls it Bombay and says it was only the idiots who wanted to change the name.
70 posted on
11/26/2008 11:29:50 AM PST by
Ditto
To: Indian_Fighter_Kite
Bangalore - Bengaluru?
Thats new to me. Bengal is on the other side of the continent.
392 posted on
11/26/2008 2:04:07 PM PST by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Indian_Fighter_Kite
and Chenai is the new name for Madras?
632 posted on
11/26/2008 3:47:48 PM PST by
ajay_kumar
(Zero has given us the worst stock market since ANY presidential election in history)
To: Indian_Fighter_Kite
Did you happen to go see Iron Maiden?
1,072 posted on
11/26/2008 8:10:55 PM PST by
wastedyears
("Al Gore is an apostle of arrogance." - Vaclav Klaus, Pres. of Czech Republic)
To: Indian_Fighter_Kite
Calcutta - Kolkata Thats "KRAW", not "CRAW"!
2,285 posted on
11/28/2008 1:00:40 PM PST by
RobRoy
(Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
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