Dear dear, this fine evening, which followed an equally fine day, I find myself no more the resident of West Bengal. Someone, presumably with questionable intelligence fancied and went onto fashion the name Poschim Bongo for my state of residence. 

(Stifling the fit of laughter, which poses a tangible threat to the materialization of this update)….

POSCHIM BONGO… seriously? Not Ravi Thakur e Bongol or Lupto Subhas e Bhoomi 

I have deep respect for these icons and do not mean to use their names slightingly…but appalling stupidity gets the better of me. 

Apparently, we underwent this rearrangement of nomenclature, because it was so desired by the aforementioned appalling idiots that we move up the alphabetical ladder.

This obviously is a reflection of our snailish progress rate, because only people used to Bengal's development statistics would consider moving up seven alphabetical rungs any real movement at all let alone find it alluring enough to actually go through the tedious process of a name change. Anyone with any modicum of something, which can be referred to as intelligence, would have opted for Bengal, which would place us at a comfortable advantage if states were being judged / recommended on alphabetical positions. 

The reason that makes us Poschim, in spite of being positioned in the eastern fringes of our nation, ceases to exist rather has gone on to become a nation of its own.East Bengal is Bangladesh and Lord Curzon is dead. Therefore, we could conveniently drop the direction part of the name especially considering our directionless being. 

This east west dichotomy I remember, made class 3 geography easy for me. I live in West Bengal, we are in the east, and also the seven sister states…I would beam with satisfaction at this wit of mine… my own compass. 

Are we even a nation if we need to correspond the names of places with vernacular phonetics? This is a larger linguistic debate where we cannot seek refuge in "unity in diversity ". There is a globalised world that we live in…A world, which has the unfailing responsibility of spelling addresses correctly on mailing envelopes.