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<p>I’m not an Indian native, I’m a white American who wanted to do something different (and I got what I asked for, and then some!). I used to call it Mumbai actually until I learned the history of how it was renamed as Mumbai by the Shiv Sena, a bunch of nativist murderous thugs that hate all foreigners and even most Indians (they’re either too northern, too southern, too muslim, or otherwise not Maharashtrian enough). I oppose everything they stand for, and so in my own futile act of protest, will always call the city by the name of her former, more cosmopolitan avatar–Bombay.</p>