Are they true, the rumours that someone wants to rename Shivaji Park after the late Bal Thackeray? Sitting here in Delhi (or more accurately, Gurgaon) it is possible that distance has affected one’s hearing. Shivaji Park, correct me please if I am wrong, is named for the great Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj? And the Shiv Sena also took its name from the great Maratha leader? And when the Sena was in power in the state government, it named several city monuments after Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj? Now a park named after Shivaji, which also has a famous statue of Shivaji on a horse, will be renamed Bal Thackeray Udyan? The mind boggles. What happens to the statue of Shivaji? It is moved to Bhau Daji Lad?

Irreplaceable: Statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji at Shivaji Park in Dadar