Mumbai or Bombay? A British newspaper reverts to a colonial-era name.

The Independent, a major British newspaper and online publication, will no longer call India's largest city Mumbai. Instead, the publication plans to revert to the city's older, colonial-era name — Bombay. Amol Rajan, the left-leaning newspaper's India-born editor, said that the decision was made as a response to what he argued were the Hindu nationalist connotations […]











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