The latest renaming project was much quieter—Fort William in Kolkata, the second fortification of the East India Company after Fort St George in Chennai, is now Vijaydurg. It’s part of the ...
Kolkata: The renaming of the nearly 250-year-old Fort William — the only fort in the world where not a single shot was ever fired — to Vijay Durg by the Narendra Modi govt found little favour ...
One of the earliest shock-and-awe campaigns of the Modi government was a renaming blitz. Its high point was the renaming of Delhi’s Aurangzeb Road to commemorate former president APJ Abdul Kalam ...