India Exports its Metro Cities
I stumbled upon a little known fact about how India has over the years exported parts of it’s four major metros to the USA. We do not only send our brains to the USA, we send the cities they stay in too.
This may seem startling:
There is one Bombay, Madras, Calcutta and Delhi in India.
On the other hand, there are 4 Bombays, 3 Madras’ , 4 Calcuttas and a whopping 12 Delhis in the USA
Just the state of New York has three of Indias major metros.
The table below indicates the states that these towns/villages/hamlets can be found. Each is a link to the Yahoo Maps site for that place.
If you live in any one of the undermentioned cities, I’d like to hear from you. If you know of any more cities with Indian names, here in the US, please let me know in the comments.
Bombay, MN Bombay, CA Bombay, NY Bombay, MI
Madras, GA Madras, OR Madras, TX
Calcutta, WV Calcutta, NY Calcutta, OH Calcutta, IN
Delhi NY Delhi CO Delhi CA Delhi GA Delhi TX Delhi IL Delhi IA Delhi MO Delhi LA Delhi OH Delhi MN Delhi OK New Delhi IL
March 30th, 2006 at 1:37 am
Salem (Tamilnadu) has a “kumbh-mela-lost” bhayya in Oregon. There are many others, cant remember offhand. Maybe some wikipedia article or something..
March 30th, 2006 at 6:33 am
There is a Salem as well as a Winston-Salem in North Carolina.
Btw, did these cities change their names to Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata etc.
March 30th, 2006 at 10:36 am
Interesting point you raise BongoPondit.
Thank god they have more brains that our stupid Indian politicians.