Of place names and identity


Two identities: While the growing skyline of Bangsar South hints at great economic growth, its other identity as the historic village of Kerinchi remains hard to ignore.

“A ROSE by any other name would smell as sweet.”

This famous quote from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet came to mind when I read about the brouhaha over the renaming of Bangsar South to Kerinchi. Actually, that’s not quite correct; it’s the reverting of Bangsar South to Kerinchi.

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