Capt.Popeye
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Indhira Gandhi did far better thing than Hasina or Khaleda. If their name could be inscribed on everything from toilet paper to space craft why cant we at least name a road after Indhira??
My 3 cents.. one extra for AL-Zakir.. LOL
@iajdani
Personally, I have no comment on anybody's wish to rename any road after Indira Gandhi. In Bangladesh specifically; it is the prerogative of the people of your country if you wish to do so, considering the Indira Gandhi connection (in some way) to the Liberation.
But its an interesting coincidence that the South Asian region has some kind of peculiar fondness of naming roads after personalities; when names like Gulmohar Road and Palm Avenue would be good enough. Then there is some added significance attached to the name given that means everything or nothing; depending on how one sees it.
A case in point is in Calcutta: when the Communists came to power there; they promptly renamed one of the most important roads there as Karl Marx Sarani and after that took particular care to rename the road passing the US Consulate as Ho Chi Minh Sarani. After all, the Viet Nam war was on!
Apart from causing some faint amusement, there was no other effect.