{"id":5573,"date":"2009-09-11T10:08:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T02:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=5573"},"modified":"2009-09-11T10:08:49","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T02:08:49","slug":"jalan-k-ramanathan-chettiar-and-jalan-mg-pandithan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2009\/09\/11\/jalan-k-ramanathan-chettiar-and-jalan-mg-pandithan\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalan K Ramanathan Chettiar and Jalan MG Pandithan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jalan Berhala was more suitable as the place has temples.\u00a0 Not sure if anyone protested on the <a href=\"http:\/\/malaysiakini.com\/news\/112614\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>name change<\/strong><\/a> like those in Ipoh (Jalan Silibin proposed to be renamed to Jalan Patto).\u00a0 I think existing names should be maintained as they have historical values. Perhaps names of past leaders and contributors can be given to new roads, highways, housing areas, buildings, monuments, bridges, submarines, planes, etc. There are so many things being built or developed that can be given such names.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beginning today Jalan Berhala in the Brickfields area in Kuala Lumpur will be known as Jalan K Ramanathan Chettiar and a part of it as Jalan MG Pandithan, said Federal Territories Deputy Minister M Saravanan.<\/p>\n<p>He said the names were taken after the third MIC president K Ramanathan Chettiar and former IPF president Pandithan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After Jalan Brickfields was changed to Jalan Tun Sambanthan, after the fifth MIC president, 27 years ago now Jalan Berhala&#8217;s name is being changed,&#8221; Saravanan said at a news conference today.<\/p>\n<p>He said the name change was made with the agreement of Kuala Lumpur City Hall and was part of efforts to make the area as &#8216;Little India&#8217;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jalan Berhala was more suitable as the place has temples.\u00a0 Not sure if anyone protested on the name change like those in Ipoh (Jalan Silibin proposed to be renamed to Jalan Patto).\u00a0 I think existing names should be maintained as they have historical values. Perhaps names of past leaders and contributors can be given to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[230,24,225],"class_list":["post-5573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-kl","tag-mic","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5575,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions\/5575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}