Now that Gurgaon has been renamed Gurugram, the internet is alive with possibilities. Quipped a social media wag: ‘If Gurgaon is Gurugram, will Telangana be Telegram, Sonipat Sonogram, Kerala Kilogram and India Instagram’? Indeed, the gram-matical possibilities are dizzying but Haryana chief minister ML Khattar is having the last laugh. What’s in a name… that by any other name would smell as sweet, quoth Shakespeare. The smells of Jatland may be a trifle distinct from Stratford-upon-Avon, but it’s important we take revenge on the British for messing up Kanpur into Cawnpore and Varanasi to Benares in the first place.
Gurgaon had to be renamed we are told because this was the original land of the great Dronacharya who not only taught Read More