by Javed Anand
Bombay was renamed Mumbai in 1995. It was among the first things the
Shiv Sena-BJP coalition sarkar did on coming to power in Maharashtra.
You might think the news has yet to reach ’em posh people who still
refer to their quarter of the metropolis as ’South Bombay’. In fact,
it’s SoBo now!
Could SoBo symbolise a cosmopolitan resistance to the chauvinism of the
Senas? Banish the thought, the SoBoietis love their Thackerays. (Perhaps
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, too.) Call it the mutual
attraction of the bold and the beautiful.
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