I address this to fellow Parsis who continue to rejoice over the rise of the right-wing establishment and seeing certain individuals as their modern day saviors.
On March 13, 2024 the Maharashtra Government renamed the Mumbai Central and Charni Road Stations. Jagannath Shankarsheth Murkute, after whom the current Mumbai Central Railway station has been renamed, was a co-founder of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway which preceded the Central Railway. Do you know who the other founder was? Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy (needs no introduction, right?).
Do you know how Charni Road Station, now renamed Girgaon, obtained its name? Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy and Lady......