What’s So Interesting About The Names Of Mumbai’s Localities ?
While I have lived in this city ever since my being,
there are a great fragments of it that I have never visited, and I’m sure the city remains an equally vast and exhilarating mystery to many.
Writing this piece took me for a mental jog around the city. (Trust me, that’s all that I have moved since morning. :P)
I think some of the names of places in and around the city are absolutely interesting. Well, let me tell you, these are just my views, not my neighbor’s. ;)
Some names are simply auditorily pleasing:
Santacruz
Lamington Road
Nepean Sea Road
Altamount Road
Some sound like names on an anatomical chart:
Kanjurmarg
Titwala
Mankhurd
Some names would suit better a resort or a holiday destination:
Seawoods
Malabar Hill
Palm Beach
Pali Hills
Breach Candy
Flora Fountain
Some sound vaguely unsavory:
Chinchpokli
Sanpada
Nagpada
Some names are through and through racist:
Kala Ghoda
Goregaon
Some names paradoxically exude ‘humility’ by taking morally ‘high’ grounds:
Lower Parel
Some names sound more like the BEST Bus Numbers:
Saat Rasta
Chaar Rasta
Naupada
Saat Bangla
Some names are perhaps inspired by the commodity market:
Chandivali
Lokhandwala
Kandivali
Some names are simply ironic:
Kalyan
Some names don’t shy away from wearing their identity as a badge:
Chor Bazaar
And some sound like 2 animals got drunk one night and had wild sex:
Ghodbunder
P.S.: These is make take on the names of localities in the city, written purely for fun, with absolutely no intention of hurting the sentiments of residents of any locality.
