Its a new day here, after a complete day of silence the deserted day vanishes with the fast moving steps, the newspapers and milk packets on the doorsteps, the people on roads, bus stops, stations and the gushing traffic comes to life again here in Bombay!! or Mumbai as people call it now but I personally prefer the old classic Bombay which has been its name since its existence and feel this how it should be. I mean who are we to change the name of things, places, events by carefully choosing them. Doing so we'd be only making the new name of a place which changes noting for the people who make it, their lives that's woven around it, the events that shape the place, the occupations depending on the availability of things like food, water and other materials to sustain life at the place and hence we humans create a place, a place ethnically, socially, economically and culturally unique.
The events from the beginning of the time shape the place and people around it and then after democracy, when there's no king and family of rulers a few just to register their names in the history textbooks of school children (who only remember them till the end of the year for the exams) come and change the name of the places. From the imperially colonized Bombay, Calcutta, Madras to their modern names which doesn't carry any aspect of design in name of the people who made them.
The next part of naming goes for the structures, when a man designs, makes or invests his precious time and money in making something, he puts his heart into it, which the whole of humanity is enthralled off and uses them for their simple needs, appreciating them for the marvelous amount of knowledge that has gone into making them. And then people with the highest authority come and decide its name, who may not even have lifted a brick, given a penny or even cleaned its wall which isn't right ethically.
In moral senses the naming should either be classic or associated with the person or event responsible for the structure, like the Eiffel tower and not the Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus I mean Shivaji is probably a very great man and doesn't need a Victorian Terminus to be associated with, and similarly an English structure needs more respect than just its name.
we in today's world plan new cities, invent towns and paint structures around them and even draw countries but forget our basics to preserve our classics, to the best of their now, will be forever and the new will just add to make it better.
The events from the beginning of the time shape the place and people around it and then after democracy, when there's no king and family of rulers a few just to register their names in the history textbooks of school children (who only remember them till the end of the year for the exams) come and change the name of the places. From the imperially colonized Bombay, Calcutta, Madras to their modern names which doesn't carry any aspect of design in name of the people who made them.
The next part of naming goes for the structures, when a man designs, makes or invests his precious time and money in making something, he puts his heart into it, which the whole of humanity is enthralled off and uses them for their simple needs, appreciating them for the marvelous amount of knowledge that has gone into making them. And then people with the highest authority come and decide its name, who may not even have lifted a brick, given a penny or even cleaned its wall which isn't right ethically.
In moral senses the naming should either be classic or associated with the person or event responsible for the structure, like the Eiffel tower and not the Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus I mean Shivaji is probably a very great man and doesn't need a Victorian Terminus to be associated with, and similarly an English structure needs more respect than just its name.
we in today's world plan new cities, invent towns and paint structures around them and even draw countries but forget our basics to preserve our classics, to the best of their now, will be forever and the new will just add to make it better.
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