ANTI-GLOBALIST EXPATRIATE writes:

Even the confirmed anti-communists in India have no sense of proportion. Four years ago, a politician decreed that all of Calcutta be painted in blue and white.

Note: ‘Kolkata’ is the relatively new politically-correct name for Calcutta. But ordinary Indians still call it Calcutta, just as they call ‘Mumbai,’ Bombay and ‘Chennai,’ Madras.

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Mark Slater writes:

Note: ‘Kolkata’ is the relatively new politically-correct name for Calcutta. But ordinary Indians still call it Calcutta, just as they call ‘Mumbai,’ Bombay and ‘Chennai,’ Madras.

These ever-so-sensitive nouveau words and pronunciations, increasingly more confounded to Anglo-Saxon ears, serve to inhibit understanding of world affairs. Perhaps that is the point.

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