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| Mumbai CST lit up with red, white and blue colours, which signify the colours of the Netherlands flag. |
Mumbai's Chatrapati Shivaji Terminal (CST), which had suffered a terror attack in 2008, similar to what Paris endured on Friday night paid home to French victims but with a glaring blunder.
The iconic building lit up with red, white and blue, which signify the colours of the Netherlands flag.
It was trying to emulate other landmark buildings around the world, which had draped themselves in French national colours - blue, white and red.
The French and the Dutch flags share the same colours though in a different order. The Dutch colours are horizontal while the French colours are vertical.
The mistake seems to be a casual oversight though you may expect the officials concerned to be more diligent on issues that sentimental in nature.
To show their solidarity with the victims of the horrific Paris attack a host of building across the world changed their colours to the French flag's blue, white and red. On Sunday, Mumbai's Chatrapati Shivaji Terminal followed suit but they made one big, glaring mistake. Instead of displaying the colours in accordance with the French flag), they showed the colour combination left to right) which actually signifes the Netherlands flag.