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05:18 pm - omg they renamed Calcutta!

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    try {
      timeZoneItsIndia = DateTimeZone.forID("Asia/Kolkata");
    } catch (IllegalArgumentException iae) {
      // okay, it means were are back in XIX century:
      timeZoneItsIndia = DateTimeZone.forID("Asia/Calcutta");
    }

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From:[info]piterburg
Date:March 25th, 2008 12:36 am (UTC)
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Not just Kolkata. Bombay is now Mumbai, and what used to be Madras is Chennai. Strangely, Deli is still (so far) what it was.
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From:[info]ivan_ghandhi
Date:March 25th, 2008 12:38 am (UTC)
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Is not it Delhi actually? ;)
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From:[info]piterburg
Date:March 25th, 2008 12:41 am (UTC)
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Oops! It is of course.

Deli is something else indeed..;_)
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From:[info]ygam
Date:March 25th, 2008 12:48 am (UTC)
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http://gauravsabnis.blogspot.com/2005/12/someachaar-delhi-to-be-renamed.html

(I cannot find any other source for this, though)

Sheila Dixit (Dikshit) has a mellifluous name.
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From:[info]malaya_zemlya
Date:March 25th, 2008 09:46 pm (UTC)

It is in wikipeida

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_renaming_controversy

therefore it must be true
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From:[info]malaya_zemlya
Date:March 25th, 2008 09:51 pm (UTC)
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However, it is in fact false.

Hello. Posted this clarification on Aranyi's blog too.

There is no move to rename Delhi to Hastinapur or Indraprastha. The post I made saying that was a joke (I thought kinda obvious) in response to the Bangalore decision, since now Delhi is the only city major city not to be renamed.

The Hastinapur-Indraprastha-Leningrad bit was a wide swipe, poking fun at all political parties.

Posted by: Gaurav | December 22, 2005 at 07:26 AM
http://stylestation.typepad.com/home/2005/12/india_on_a_ques.html#comment-12275890

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From:[info]spamsink
Date:March 25th, 2008 01:26 am (UTC)
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Airport codes are still the same! CCU, BOM, MAA, DEL.
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From:[info]piterburg
Date:March 25th, 2008 01:27 am (UTC)
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'Cause airport codes were created by DWM's.
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From:[info]spamsink
Date:March 25th, 2008 01:30 am (UTC)
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'Cause airport codes are beyond their control!
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From:[info]ygam
Date:March 25th, 2008 04:18 am (UTC)
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http://www.baz.spb.ru/mentality/pics/12_lenobl.gif
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