среда, 3 декабря 2008 г.

"Our Friends In Bombay"

Original: "Our Friends In Bombay"

That's the title of this essay by Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens clarifies something that I missed, for some reason: the origin of "Mumbai." I first realized that Bombay had been renamed within the last year or two when, on an airplane, I read an airline magazine article about "Mumbai," evidently one of the great cities of the world, but of which I was entirely ignorant. I figured it could only be Bombay. Hitchens writes:

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