Re: [silk] Chhatrapati Shivaji

["Arsalan Zaidi" <arsalan_zaidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Spotted on a Sena Bulletin Board.

"All you names are belong to us!" -- Bal Thakeray

--Arsalan. "What you say??" Zaidi.


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From: "ekta bahl" <ektabahl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <silk-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 11:54 AM
Subject: [silk] Chhatrapati Shivaji


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> Given the recent trend of changing names of buildings, roads, villages,
towns and cities...... this forward was rather nice
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> Ekta
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> Recently, the State government of Maharashra, India, announced its plans
to
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> rename the Prince of Wales museum as the Chhatrapati Shivaji
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> Vastusangrahlaya. So now we have that in addition to the Chhatrapti
Shivaji
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> Terminus, the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, the Chhatrapati
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> Shivaji Domestic Airport, and who knows what else.
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> If this trend continues, we may reasonably
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> speculate what it will be like c 2050 AD...
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> My name is Chhatrapati Shivaji. My father s name is Chhatrapati Shivaji.
My
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> mother s name is Chhatrapati Shivaji. My brothers, sisters, uncles and
aunts
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> are all named Chhatrapati Shivaji. All other names have long since been
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> outlawed. I wake up everyday at 6:30 am (Chhatrapati Standard Time) to go
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> to my school: Chhatrapati Shivaji Vidyalaya. It was a little confusing
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> getting there at first, because all schools in the city have the same
name.
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> But once I got directions, it was fine. All I have to do is go down
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> Chhatrapati Shivaji Road, make a left turn at Chhatrapati Shivaji Chowk,
go
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> straight till Chhatrapati Shivaji Marg, until I reach Chhatrapati Shivaji
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> Road. Then I go straight till I come to Chhatrapati Shivaji Chowk. Once I
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> got lost and found myself at Chhatrapati Shivaji Road instead of
Chhatrapati
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> Shivaji Road. Silly mistake, when I think about it.
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> My class teacher, Mr C Shivaji, is a good teacher. Today he asked,
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> Chhatrapati, can you answer that question?
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> The whole class put up their hands to answer.
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> Yesterday our school, CS Vidyalaya, had a cricket match with our rival
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> school, CS Vidyalaya. Of course, we don t know which school won. But that
s
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> okay. This weekend, my family and I will go to the zoo, Chhatrapati
Shivaji
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> Pranibaugh, and see all the, um... plants. There used to be animals there,
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> but they re all dead now. They say it was due to negligence because the
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> keepers were all running for government, one of them for the office of
Prime
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> Chhatrapati.
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> We have two main telecommunication companies, CSNL and CSNL. One provides
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> telephone services and the other provides broadband MultiNet access via
the
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> Chhatrapati Shivaji Satellite.
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> Sometimes we don t know whether we re accessing a
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> website or whether Chhatrapati Shivaji (our grandmother)
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> is calling up. I ll go online later to see if I have any new
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> e-mail at chhatrapati@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Foreigners are often confused which Paanch Sitaara
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> Vyayamshala (5-ishtar hotel) to stay in, because
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> they all have the same names. I think the Chhatrapati Shivaji
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> Vishramgraha is pretty good, and one should stay there rather
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> than the Chhatrapati Shivaji Vishramgraha or the
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> Chhatrapati Shivaji Vishramgraha. During the weekend, my family and I
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> might go to the beach, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Samudrakinar, and
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> after that we may go see a film. All foreign
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> films are dubbed in Indian languages because, as
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> we are taught in school:
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> (1)    Nothing foreign is good, and
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> (2)    All things foreign that are good have been stolen from us.
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> I go to sleep pretty early, after watching the popular TV show Kaun Banega
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> Chhatrapati. Tomorrow will be another day... I think. Sometimes, in
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> whispers, I hear stories told of a mythical age long ago, when places and
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> things had different names. Stories of a time when each thing had it s own
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> name, and of a concept called heterogeneity . It s a legend, only
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> half-believed, of a time when places and things had a history, and the
city
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> an identity.
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