True but I left it in the original. Most non-Bengalis mangle it, not to mention Singapore airlines with whom I have flying to the city for decades. Calcutta was much more sophisticated sounding and it matched the colonial Raffles too! But the change to Kolkata shouldn't be seen as so dramatic. All the Bengalis called it Kolkata, the left then simply adopted it, unlike the other cities that Raghu mentions, which had more of a regional-nationalist tenor. The airport code remains CCU.
But one change in Kolkata during the CPM rule again a long time ago revealed much humor when Harrington street was changed to Ho Chi Min Sarani. The U.S. Consulate was located on Harrington Street. Anthony xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa, Chair & Professor of Contemporary Indian Studies Australia India Institute and School of Social & Political Sciences University of Melbourne, 147-149 Barry Street, Carlton VIC 3053, AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 3 9035 6161 Visit the Australia India Institute Website http://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/ New: After-Development Dynamics (on South Korea) http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198729433.do Forthcoming Book: http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9780415564953/ New Book Series (Dynamics of Asian Development) http://www.springer.com/series/13342 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent from my iPad > On Sep 9, 2015, at 00:55, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Anthony D'Costa <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Ah yes, poor Calcutta gets a bad rap whatever the context;) > > > > It is 'Kolkata', Anthony! > -raghu. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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