People and events in Santa Cruz
People and events in Santa Cruz A couple of weeks back I posted a sentence “I shall call the city of my birth Bombay whatever its official name” and I got some very interesting responses. Do you know that there was a move to change the name of Santa Cruz to Vivek Nagar when Godhbunder Road was renamed Swamy Vivekananda Road? East Avenue is today called Sharat Chandra Chatterji Marg, Church Avenue Ramkrishna Mission Marg. Do you call Linking Road by its official name Sardar Patel Marg, or Marine Drive Subhash Chandra Bose Marg? Bombay, in general, and Santa Cruz in particular, have evolved over the decades. Not all this evolution has been good. St. Francis and Convent Avenues (are the names still the same?) have changed beyond recognition. I’ve written two short stories and am in the middle of a novel based on events in Khar and Santa Cruz. In fact, my novel is actually going to tell what St. Francis Avenue was and what it’s become with the long journey that it’s taken. One annual...