A square in Powai was named J Dey Chowk this week, in memory of this newspaper's late journalist Jyotirmoy Dey, who was gunned down near the spot five years ago. It is possibly the first and only time I have been happy about the BMC naming or renaming anything in my city. It was pressure from the media that made them do it, of course, presumably because naming the square after Dey would mean not being able to name it after some corporator's relative or film star's grandparent."

I fail to understand why roads need to be named after people we have never heard of, people who have absolutely nothing to do with the locality in question, or people who are actually related to people who may have done something of some significance that no one remembers anymore. It would help if there were commemorative plaques explaining why a street was named after someone, but that may take a few decades, considering the BMC and PWD have yet to perfect the art of putting up basic street signs that actually stay up for more than a few months.