BOMBAY, INDIA: A sign board ‘Mumbai’ is placed near the Taj hotel at the famous landmark the Gateway in Bombay, 13 May 2005. Since independence in 1947, regional advocates in India have called for a change in many place names to reflect the wide linguistic and ethnic variations in the country of one-billion-plus people that spans the Himalayans in the north to the meeting of the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea in the south. AFP PHOTO/Sebastian D’SOUZA. (Photo credit should read SEBASTIAN D’SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images)

