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In response to "me either, until i listened to NPR this morning -- nm" by pigby

really? It's been changed for a good ten years now. Many large Indian cities have new names

Posted by Roger More (aka RogerMore) Nov 27 '08, 10:03

Calcutta is Kolkatta. Madras is now Chennai. Bangalore recently changed its name to Bengalooru.

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Oh, I was aware of the Mumbai one, but not the others. I assume they moved away from colonial era westernised mispellings? - celedhrymandias Nov 27, 10:06 3
- Yes - though often they weren't so much mispellings as just attempts to write strange words in a different language - Roger More Nov 27, 10:12 2
  - i believe Mumbai is derived from a deity's name -- nm - zork Nov 27, 10:13 1
    - I just checked wiki and there are several competing explanations. - Roger More Nov 27, 10:21
Plus they mention on TAR every season. -- nm - Mop Nov 27, 10:04 20
- And every season I think "I wish they'd stop going to India." -- nm - Cuzzin Toddfurky Nov 27, 10:25 19
  - I don't. Every season, they should go to one country in South Asia or Africa -- nm - Roger More Nov 27, 10:28 18
    - It's more that they ALWAYS go to India. - Cuzzin Toddfurky Nov 27, 10:29 17
      - umm, it's the second most populous country and has millennia of history and a lot more influence on our cultures and religions than most people realis -- nm - zork Nov 27, 10:46
      - Personally I'm nore sick of them going to Hawaii. And Alaska! - Roger More Nov 27, 10:37 14
        
        They should do a Micro-countries of the world race. - Reagen Nov 27, 10:41 13
        
        But yes - I'd like to see them do an island-hopping race. - Roger More Nov 27, 10:46 9
        
        Azores and instead of India ... Sri Lanka! -- nm - zork Nov 27, 10:47 8
        
        Faroe Islands! Vanuatu! - Reagen Nov 27, 10:50 7
        
        NAURU! -- nm - zork Nov 27, 11:01 5
        
        I once knew a guy who worked in Kiribati - Roger More Nov 27, 11:11 4
        
        would you describe him as a little catty? -- nm - Reagen Nov 27, 11:18 3
        
        Things I never knew before I met this guy: it's pronounced 'ki-ri-bahs' -- nm - Roger More Nov 27, 11:23 2
        
        to the bane of limerick writers everywhere. -- nm - Reagen Nov 27, 11:35 1
        
        There once was a man from Kiribati. Who had an enormous... -- nm - Roger More Nov 27, 11:39
        
        Have the TAR people drop into an episode of Survivor :) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 27, 10:52
        
        Maybe through Dubai? The connections they had from Delhi to Kazakhstan were worse - via Frankfurt? Ugh -- nm - Roger More Nov 27, 10:43 2
        
        I laughed at the ones going through Moscow. You're just going right back there! - Reagen Nov 27, 10:48 1
        
        Back in Season 2, the teams had al sorts of trouble getting from Rio to Cape Town. I think they all had to fly through Europe - Roger More Nov 27, 10:53
      - the Indian government must be really easy to work with and give them *great* deals. -- nm - El Fandie Nov 27, 10:32

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