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Name changing in India: From decolonisation to neo-colonialism?

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Seventy nine years after Independence, most colonial names have been wiped clean in Mumbai. So when Maharashtra minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha found one that was still intact and proposed that the municipal King Edward Memorial Hospital be rechristened, there really shouldn’t have been much of a debate. “The name King Edward represents colonial rule,” Lodha said at an event to celebrate the hospital’s centenary in January. “It has no connection with India today.
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When saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins spent time in an ashram in Mumbai’s Powai in 1968

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“I had no idea there were so many ashrams around Bombay!” More than four decades after he and his friend Jehangir Dalal got into a car and drove to more than a dozen religious retreats, Nirajan Jhaveri still remembered the day in 1968 vividly. The two men were among Bombay’s most obsessive jazz fans. As students at St Xavier’s College in the 1950s, they’d published India’s first jazz magazine, Blue Rhythm.
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Noida and beyond: India’s workers are being shortchanged. They deserve a fair deal

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When workers in Noida took to the streets earlier this week, they did more than just focus attention on the unsustainably low wages that many Indian workers are paid. The spontaneous demonstrations across the Uttar Pradesh city also provided the opportunity for the country’s elite to blare out, yet again, their callous – and counterproductive – opinions about working-class Indians.
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