Station naming controversy

(This post may be offensive to some sections of society)

One of the two rivers is a staunch "localite". He has been harping on the fact that railway stations in Maharashtra write the name of the station in Marathi, below the Hindi (national language) text. This was proved to be outright incorrect, since the Indian Railways has the policy of wrting the name of the station (on top of the board) in the local language and the Hindi and English texts follow beneath. Now the river was not able to understand this. He was insisting that the non-Maharashtrain influence has led to the railways here to write the names in Hindi on top, and in Marathi below. Anyway even after sufficient pictorial proof of station boards in Maharashtra, the river was not ready to chew his words. All across the country the same rule is followed by the railways - the name of the station in the local language script on top, followed by the name in the Devanagri and English scripts. (If anyone can provide proof of this rule being violated anywhere in Maharashtra, please do so).

Looks like the self styled locals are begining to feel the heat. With our country becoming more and more cosmopolitian by the day, you see a eclectic mixture of communities residing next to each other. And this cant be helped. Locals feel they are getting upsurped, and maybe rightly so. There was a post on prominent Maharashtrians, and the list was not long at all. That itself is sufficient proof. The bottom line is do something constructive that will outlast time - the locals should get that ingrained in their minds. Dont just sit and worship false heroes and politicians by looking upto them whenever you are out in the cold.

After all the real true authentic original Bombay insiders are the ones (like meeeee !!!!!!) born on the BOMBAY island (of the seven original Islands of Bombay). People from anyplace else, be it Salsette, Trombay dont qualify.

(The word "locals" in this post is to be read as "self-styled locals")

He He Heh Heh Ho Ho.