While the real motive behind changing the names of places may be political, it is an exaggeration to say that this amounts to ‘cultural genocide’ (OpEd, “The reason for renaming places”, November 13). Unfortunately, the writer does not seem to have been impartial in his analysis. It is a historical fact that several cities were renamed in medieval India. Quite a few places of worship were also demolished. Does all this not amount to cultural genocide? Perhaps it would have been better had the writer shed some light on some of these facts as well.
Prabhav Trivedi,
Kanpur
