Rename India as Bharat, says Congress MP

[maomao]

It is Bharat Varsha..... the Land of our forefather starting from Bharat ..... so what is wrong in it

Hey man that is not in Angreezi and it does not sound secular - you know what islamic and xian people may not like it !!

 

[The Messiah]

India, Bharat & Hindustan are official names in our constitution already.

 

[sayareakd]

India, Bharat & Hindustan are official names in our constitution already.

can you point out the Article ???

 

[Bhadra]

Hey man that is not in Angreezi and it does not sound secular - you know what islamic and xian people may not like it !!

well all common people and the folk lore calls this land as Bharata..

you may call it by any other name, it does not matter to them...
The battle of Mahabharat was for Bharata... which means Land of Dharma or piousness..

 

[ani82v]

India is already called Bharata by all those who want to call it Bharata.

Nobody calls in India when using it in Hindi or any other local language. In Urdu I guess they would use Hindustan.

It is a petty and useless point raised by no good person. We are wasting our time on it.

We vote our MPs to Parliament to do better things.

 

[Bhadra]

Yada yada Hi dharmasya Glanir Bhawati Bharata...

that is the name of our Rashtra.... it is neither geographacally bound nor politically. It is a cultural unity of which Pakistan and BD and Nepal etc are a part of ...

 

[Yusuf]

Hindustan is used in Urdu, nothing to do with Bharat being a Hindu nation but of old Persian style of Hindustan being land beyond the Sindhu river.

 

[LurkerBaba]

India, Bharat & Hindustan are official names in our constitution already.

Not Hindustan

 

[ani82v]

Hindustan is used in Urdu, nothing to do with Bharat being a Hindu nation but of old Persian style of Hindustan being land beyond the Sindhu river.

India and Hindustan are etymologically linked from Sindhu. I have heard the term Hindu films refering to Bollywood by Portuguese. These are names given to foreigners to us, just like Hinduism.

The people who live here, have used Bharat .

 

[Iamanidiot]

how about buddhiheenadesha?

 

[Galaxy]

Looks like MP didn't even read the constitution. 3 years back, He said Goa MP Shantaram Naik says some women invite rape


Bharat is already official name of India. Constitution of India states that "India, that is Bharat, shall be a union of states." Thus, India and Bharat are equally official short names for the Republic of India.

Bhāratam -- Bharata / Bharatavarsha are historical name of India.

Bharata (emperor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[The Messiah]

can you point out the Article ???

Not Hindustan

Yes you are right.

Only India and Bharat are official names.

 

[LurkerBaba]

Aryavarata > Bharat > India > Hindustan

Also, the state's official (and only recognized) religion should be the one with Chatur Arya Satya

 

[nrj]

Hindi hai hum!!

 

[civfanatic]

Indian Ocean should be renamed as "Arya Samudra".

 

[Rage]

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Dumbest idea a Congress butthead ever had. Apart from changing the name on every file, edifice and politico-legal code in the country, renaming serves to soothe patriotic passions with historical reappraisal, rather than concrete development. It is a fruitless endeavor, economically and practically, of typically dystopian post-colonial proportions, is an appendage of all the truly flavorless political rendering that goes on in these countries and is indicative of a people that dwell in the past rather than focus on the present. It is, moreover, a mendacious, deceitful way of trying to come to terms with the past, amid the irony of being unable to change the present and a dissolute sense of powerlessness over the future, serving to satisfy only the interests of Machiavellian politicians rather than the development needs of society itself; indeed detracting and distracting, and more nefariously, substituting with tranquil contentment over "historical conciliation" the satisfaction that comes from truly achieving concrete achievements. 'India' is a name, that is easy to pronounce among the Anglo-Saxon world, whose English language enjoys global consuetuedal ascendancy. Moreover, it is a familiar name, etched in the minds of people, culturalists, historians and anthropologists, and associated intimately with all that is both, good and bad in the subcontinent and more recently, increasingly with the good. It bears history, culture and praxis, sharing an unequivocally established relationship with the mighty Indus river, that princes and traders from time immemorial associated with a land of a culture of which the greater part we know has endured. Changing it to a name that is uniquely colloquial, will not only serve to undermine that established association, it will also serve to diminish the value of an international brand, by replacing it with one that is indefinitely colloquial.

 

[blank_quest]

Indian Ocean should be renamed as "Arya Samudra".

and Indian flag should be renamed from flag to "Arya Dhwaja"

 

[SADAKHUSH]

You can rename it to Bharat when all politicians rename themselves as nikammas.

We Bharatvarshis should keep the scorecard on these leeches and rate them before every elections and publish the names of underachievers Neta's(politicians). We have to get over this mentality of voting as per caste and Dosti yaari. This is the root cause of our under performance on the world stage.

 

[Blackwater]

Rename India as pakistan. His Holiness is already in panipat fighting for , so that radio pakistan to be aired from lal kila



HIS HOLINESS HIMSELF,U INDIAN BOW UR HEAD

 

[Shaitan]

OMG, no. Should China rename it's name to Zhongguo? The name China has it's origins from India. Just like India has it's origins from the Greeks. So what??

The name India is a brand all around the world. It's a nation everyone knows.

India has 3 names. Bharat, Hindustan, India. South Americans, North Americans, etc don't need to know the name Bharat or Zhongguo. That's for the Chinese and Indians to know.

This isn't like changing the name of state.