MUMBAI, June 4 -- His fiery soliloquies may have brought Mumbai to a standstill innumerable times, but the public stirs also kindled hope among countless municipal sweepers and peons, teachers and taxi-BEST drivers, chefs, clerks and cooks, nurses and gumastas across Mumbai. The Mumbai-George Fernandes amour is one of the city's endearing folklore which refuse to stale with time.

That the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) should, for once, rise above pandemonium and arcane points of order, and unanimously decide to tip its hat to Fernandes by agreeing to name a busy public square, near the iconic civic headquarters in south Mumbai, after him is a gesture which merits encore, say civic chroniclers. Fernandes was elected to the BMC ...