What's in name?

Changing name is new phenomena governed by fasle sense of hope that the PRESENT of now would prevail over the FUTURE till eternity. It may not last even 100 years. For times immemorial naming a place, town, village or city, even a country had never been a tradition anywhere. Like language and its nouns, the names of places evolved and emerged organically over long periods of usage. Also people called and named places as per their language and tradition irrespective of what local inhabitants called it. A Chinese always had different name for India, Rome, Egypt or Magadh. And Turks called China and India differently as what suited them as per their language and knowledge about those places. So Indians called Yavan not Greek. Like we all called Bombay or Bambai for Mumbai. What's in name?

How the city metamorphosed over period of last 300 years is result of collective endeavours of lakhs of natives, migrants from all over India, locals, expatriate and foreigners who pooled their distinctive cultures, values, skills, money and acumen to make this city evolve into a globally recognised and respected megapolis of Bombay, we call now Mumbai. What it might had been earlier could be important and vital but it had never been even a fraction of what it became and proudly brought maximum value to those who originally lived in the region.