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If Bombay can become Mumbai, Bangalore can become Bengaluru, Madras can become Chennai, and Calcutta can become Kolkota, there is no reason why Allahabad should not become Prayagraj and Faizabad should not become Ayodhya. To re-establish our original identity, we have renamed these places. I am happy that people have welcomed this. Yogi Adityanath

Happy People Become Our Madras No Reason Welcomed Identity Am Places Should Reason Original Why Bombay Mumbai

In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me. Salman Rushdie

Me World Listening Alien Made Other Others Side Elvis Kid Relevant Seemed Driver Truck Truck Driver Feel Noises Mississippi Always Up Radio Fascinated Growing Growing Up Bombay

In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this. Salman Rushdie

As a child I played cricket as a hobby. Once you started playing for your school, you became more ambitious. You reckoned you could play for the state. Then you started to think about the country. But it happened so quickly for me, I started playing for the school at 13, for Bombay at 17, and at 18 I was in the Indian side. Ravi Shastri

Me You School Country Think Cricket Side State Once Reckoned Indian About More Could Became Ambitious Quickly Child Hobby Happened Then Your Bombay Play Played Started Playing

Cinematically, anything like 'Khawto' in Bengali cinema hasn't happened. Yes, you get such films in Hollywood, a few in Bombay. In Bengali literature, you get such stories in the works of Samaresh Basu and Buddhadeb Guha. Prosenjit Chatterjee

You Cinema Few Films Bengali Like Yes Get Stories Anything Happened Literature Hollywood Works Bombay

I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world. Salman Rushdie

Good Change Happy World School Must See Some Spirit No Reason Adventure Suppose Been Very Wanting Anything Reason Bombay

I was chosen over British and French choreographers to work on 'Bombay Dreams.' Farah Khan

Work Dreams Over French Chosen Bombay British

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