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CMV: When using the English language, we should refer to "Mumbai" as "Bombay" for the same reasons that we refer to "Deutschland" as "Germany."

A few years ago, the Indian government decided that certain cities bearing colonial names should henceforth be referred to by their precolonial names --- e.g. Mumbai instead of Bombay, Kolkata instead of Calcutta, Chennai instead of Madras, etc. The reason for the change was that some nationalistic parties gained political power and decided that this would be a good way to appease their voters. This change somehow caught on not only within India, but all over the world. It is enforced so extremely in India that the censor board recently decided to ban a music video simply for using the word "Bombay" instead of Mumbai.

My problem with this is that no government (or any authority) should have a hegemony over the English language. One of the most beautiful things about the English language is that there is no authority in the world that can prescribe rules for it. I think it should not be perverted to pander to some particular authority's parochial interests.

CMV.
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>This change somehow **caught on** not only within India, but all over the world.

There you go. This is *fait accompli*, a thing already done.

The word "germany" caught on so we use it.

At this point, "Mumbai" caught on - so we use. Why expend effort hanging it again?