RE:Peter Lindberg
by Harsha Kumar on Mar 24, 2008 05:07 PM Permalink
how does it matter if anyone calls it mumbai or bombay? A more appropriate name would be slumbai I guess..as far as I can see, mumbai's problems have not been solved by the renaming. It's just wasted taxpayer's money and changed the cosmopolitan city of 'bombay' into 'mumbai', the city of parochialism and slums.
RE:Peter Lindberg
by santosh on Mar 24, 2008 07:23 PM Permalink
how can u call bombay a slum - well there is dharavi which used to be called a slum, but there are building there now. there are also the posh areas in bombay which you can compare to any other world class city. i am sure you are from some remote village in india - stay put there .......and dont comment on one of india's most important city !!!
RE:Peter Lindberg
by Secular India on Mar 24, 2008 04:56 PM Permalink
It was never Mumbai , my friend. The city of Bombay was created by the British after they got the island as dowry from Portugese . There were many places inhabited by Kolis before that. Very few people use Mumbai in private conversations even today...but that said, I think Mumbai sounds a lot better than Bombay. Dubai, Mumbai, Chennai etc gives it a more Eastern feel.
RE:RE:Peter Lindberg
by CMat on Mar 24, 2008 08:04 PM Permalink
Hey Secular India !!! Just to add wht itrepid says...India was also named by Brits..It was never India before So does Bombay..Brits had prob uttering these names.So they just saw their convenience ....You have a chance to get things right my friend
RE:Peter Lindberg
by Intrepid on Mar 24, 2008 05:42 PM Permalink
The name of the island was Mumbai. The word comes from the goddess MUMBA and AAI in marathi means mother . So it is Mamba Mata or Mumbai. It was inhabited by Kolis, Pathare Prabhu, Brahmins, Kunbis etc. They were all Marathi speaking. The british changed the name to Bombay, Vandre to Bandra, Pune to Poona and so on and so forth. The british are gone. They have taken the loot. So, now it is part of Maharashtra again and the name is MUMBAI.
