Patna: Airports Authority of India (AAI) has finally woken up to the need to correctly spell the name of Bharat Ratna "Jaiprakash Narayan" on the Patna airport's buildings.
The airport was named Jaiprakash Narayan International Airport in 1996. The Times of India in these columns on May 19 last year reported that the airport was using wrong spelling of the Sampoorna Kranti leader, revered as JP, on the signboards as well as in official communications.
The TOI report quoted from historic documents retrieved from the Gandhi Sangrahalaya in Patna to establish that JP spelt his name as 'Jayaprakash Narayan', not 'Jaiprakash Narayan'. Even 'A Dreary Routine', a poem written in JP's hand while he was at the University of Wisconsin in the US in 1927-28, has his name as 'Jayaprakash Narayan'.
15/11/12 Alok KN Mishra/Times of India
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The airport was named Jaiprakash Narayan International Airport in 1996. The Times of India in these columns on May 19 last year reported that the airport was using wrong spelling of the Sampoorna Kranti leader, revered as JP, on the signboards as well as in official communications.
The TOI report quoted from historic documents retrieved from the Gandhi Sangrahalaya in Patna to establish that JP spelt his name as 'Jayaprakash Narayan', not 'Jaiprakash Narayan'. Even 'A Dreary Routine', a poem written in JP's hand while he was at the University of Wisconsin in the US in 1927-28, has his name as 'Jayaprakash Narayan'.
15/11/12 Alok KN Mishra/Times of India
