On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@wolfman.devio.us> wrote:

if, what i've read is right, please note, delhi would be more apt because it fits the bill better than either mumbai or kolkata;
1. delhi is more populous than kolkata.
2. delhi is closer to +0530 than either mumbai or kolkata.
3. delhi has no name change problems like mumbai, kolkata, chennai, etc.
4. having delhi as the marker for india gives every indian a sense of
pride which is absent in the case of any other indian city.

Having lived in Delhi, this may just be a matter of time :-) I have seen calls for it to be renamed "Dilli".

When I was in Bombay for 5 years in the 80s, no expected the name to change; I graduated from the "Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Bombay". Now it is the "Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai".

Again, this is just an identifier, it has no intrinsic meaning. My name is "Sanjeev", but I do not think I am "immortal". We will know better once the end of the world deadline has passed.

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