A place name is a place name. To rename Chennai Central station as “Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. MGR Central station” is like stripping Chennai city of its name. No doubt great leaders must be honoured; indeed, MGR has been honoured duly by attaching his revered initials to many institutions such as universities in Tamil Nadu but this tendency to rename institutions so ubiquitously after a single person reveals a paucity of imagination and thought. The timing of the decision on the name-change is also unfortunate, and has a political angle to it.
C.G. Rishikesh,
Chennai