An MLA describes the English name 'Gateway of India' as a symbol of slavery under British rule, and wants it to be called Bharat Dwar, instead. Pic/AFP

An MLA wants the Gateway of India to be renamed. This, during a month that saw a number of Indians being lynched for all kinds of reasons, farmers protesting across the state, outbreaks of monsoon-related diseases across Maharashtra and a bunch of other things that, in a country with its priorities right, ought to have given the MLA more important food for thought. Unfortunately, none of those things mattered as much as a monument that has been making Bombay look a lot more beautiful than it actually is since 1924.