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While Calcutta struggles to maintain its position as a world city, a strong parochial trend in recent years has been to replace all English eventually with Bengali - the most obvious result has been the renaming of the city as Kolkata . The shedding of the city's colonial past began decades ago in the Sixties and Seventies when many of the old British street names were officially changed, but Calcutta is slow to change and, three decades or so later, some of the original names continue to be widely used in tandem. The most important of these is Chowringhee or Jawaharlal Nehru Road (which we continue to call Chowringhee). Other name changes to note are Rabindranath Tagore Street (although everyone still calls it Camac Street), BBD Bagh (still often referred to by its old name, Dalhousie Square or simply "Dalhousie"), Indira Gandhi Road (everyone calls it Red Road), Lenin Sarani (Dharamtala), Mirza Ghalib Street (Free School Street), Bepin Bihari Ganguly Street (Bowbazar Street), Rabindra Sarani (Chitpore Road), Ho Chi Minh Sarani (Harrington Street), Dr Mohammed Ishaque Road (Kyd Street), AJC Bose Road (Lower Circular Road), Muzaffar Ahmed Street (Ripon Street), Shakespeare Sarani (Theatre Road) and Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Street (Wellesley Street)