Tag: NAME CHANGE

POLITICS The singing of the national anthem in cinema halls has been now accompanied by the proposed installation of 100-ft tall tricolours in the 75 busiest railway stations across India.

POLITICS Gorakhpur’s Urdu Bazaar is now Hindi Bazaar while Allahabad has become Prayagraj - the trend of changing names of significant towns and cities of the nation reminds us that a politics based on differentiation and alienation of the minority is opposed to the growth of the nation as a whole.

THE NEW LEAM VIEWPOINT The historic relevance of Allahabad as a symbolic of syncretic tradition cannot be neglected especially at a time when we are evoking public passion to divide rather than consolidate sentiments.