Renaming of Carter Road...

The road I once walked on as a child .. by the sea side will no more be associated with its old name Carter Road but instead it has been renamed 'Sangeet Samrat Naushad Ali Road'..

I feel like a part of my childhood and growing up days has been taken from me and renamed to something I don’t associate myself to at all.

 Understood most roads in India were named after some English or the other .. but its been years now and we all associate those roads with their original names , not with the people they were named after .. Each of these old names have a certain attachment to us and we don’t wanna loose it .. I have no offence to the name but why is it necessary?

 Infact my close school friends are from the family and hence probably I feel a sense weirdness writing this ,I know how happy they are to be living now on the road named after their grandfather but what about us? ..

 We still associate it to our  days as kids when we’d wait to go on the beach on carter road with our little buckets and spades to build sand castles, though alot has changed with times and all the commercialization of that road, its still holds a special memory to me and I wouldn’t want to call it by a different name, I would want to tell my kids about all my childhood days but if the names of all our reminiscent places will be changed how will they ever be able to associate our lives with theirs .. is my question ..

 I still love calling Bombay ‘Bombay’ and not Mumbai as it is now called .. why is it necessary?Ask any anyone of us born and grown up there, I’m sure all will agree with me .. it sounds beautiful to our ears, it is what we’ve grown up with,its part of our childhood memories and we love it.. 

I would like to ask the politicians who execute and decide all of these name changes, would they change their names if they were given some western names when they were born? Why change what has already been done is my point ..Build new roads and name them instead.

 I will still call Carter Road by its original name and request every Bombayite to do the same ..Cause we live in a place where democracy exists and hence since there was no vote taken by the people living on Carter Road and their opinion not asked the renaming should be taken back ..