Road

(Newington), Sharan Place (Forestville), Singh Lane (Chester Hill), Tara Rd (Blacktown), Ramu Close (Sylvania), Tarun Place (Dharruk), Thackeray St (Winston Hills), Feroza St (Riverwood), Kannan Place (Kirrawee), Malti Way (Parklea), Narang Place (St. Marys), Navins Cr (Zetland), Neeta Ave (Cambridge), and somebody’s grandmother, Bebe Ave (Revesby).

Cherrybrook’s Zulfi Place, many of us already know, is named after Sydney entrepreneur Firdaus (Freddie) Zulfiqar.

Even Bollywood links can be found on Sydney’s roads. While we don’t have an Aishwarya St yet (we’re working on that one), old-timer Nanda lives on in Pennant Hills as Nunda Close and in Lane Cove as Nundah Ct, and an Aishwarya contemporary has already beaten her to it at Rani Place (Kareela).

India’s spiritualism has been felicitated as well: we have devout Hindus living on streets dedicated to gods Varuna (Doonside), to Indra (Baulkham Hills) and to Nandi (Frenchs Forest).

Pendle Hill’s Nirvana St and Holsworthy’s Sanananda Rd are home to the self-actualised, while those who believe in rituals rather than philosophy prefer Jupp Place (Eastwood) instead.

On the other hand, high levels of depression have been recorded along Rona Cl (Berowra), Rota Place (Kings Park), Rulana St (Acacia Gardens) and Rulwalla Place (Gymea). Daraya Rd (Marayaong) is home to those afflicted with delusions of persecution, and we don’t even need to tell you of the kind of gentry that patronises Goonda Ave (LaPerouse), Gundah Rd (Mt Kuringai) and Daru Place (Glenfield).

And there are some on which the local councils have got the spellings wrong, such as Weemala Ave (Northbridge), Wandana Ave (Baulkham Hills), Hilwa St (Villawood), and, not to be missed, Amitaf Ave (Caringbah).

But no true-blue Punjabi will live on Moya Cr (Kingsgrove) or Nunga St (Baulkham Hills) or Shoo-ter Ave (Ramsgate – that’s spelt with a Chu, actually) and the Malayalees who live on Kundi St (Blaxland) have been campaigning hard to get their street name changed.

Ives), Tawa St (Ashfield), and this is true, Becharry Rd (Blacktown). Becharry street, is all we can lament, for that last one!

And then, many years later, when the Indians did invade their shores, there were many who the local councils chose to honour, by naming the streets after them. Today we have Abhay Place (Glenwood), Amur Place (Kearns), Raj Place (Mt Druitt), Gouda Close (Abbotsbury), Reddy St (Edgecliff), Rima Place (Hassell Grove), Rita Place (Merrylands), Rohan Place (Naremburn), Rohini St (Turramurra), Roma Place (St. Ives), Mala St (Smithfield), Maya Close (Bossley Park), Munni St (Newtown), Pinto Place (St. Clair), Priya Cooper Ave