Bodh Gaya got its name because Siddhartha sat cross-legged under a peepal tree and achieved enlightenment to become Gautam Buddha.

Battala "lost" its name because Trinamool MP Tapas Paul stood on a plastic chair under a young banyan tree, delivered the "rape-and-shoot" speech and achieved national "fame'.

Battala is now known as Tapastala -- a rare honour that not many public figures other than Nelson Mandela have been accorded during their lifetime.

In New Delhi, Nelson Mandela Marg was named so when the anti-apartheid legend was alive. History has repeated itself -- as farce and by default. Read the full report here