Mohit Sharma's Blog – July 2013 Archive (1)

The recent brouhaha about renaming the rural stretch Mullanpur to New Chandigarh has everyone talking about. The decision of Punjab government to rename the area hasn’t gone down too well with the Haryana Chief Minister, who thinks it an unethical ploy to sell the place using false advertising.

Unethical or not, the renaming can be best viewed as an attempt of the government to cash in on the popularity of Chandigarh. One look at the place and you are sure that it is going to go down…