BHARAT not INDIA

[Guest guest]

Suresh Pathania (Fremont, CA)

Hindu Philosophy in Western World

 

Are we ever going to get back our motherland's name back from India

to Bharat? The citizens of the biggest democracy and the oldest 5000

year old culture are known as Indians and not Bharatvasis today. The

countries, which came in to existence later, have gotten back their

names, however we are still living in the colonial era. Look at

Zimbabwe changed from Rhodesia, Sri Lanka changed from Ceylon,

Myanmar from Burma, and many others.

 

We should we ashamed of when some one calls us Indians and not

Bharatvasis. We can expect this only from the BJP and not from

Congress. So it should be either now or never. Some jerk translated

Bharat Ka Sambidhan into Constitution of India. Don't we know names

are not to be translated. It should have translated as constitution

of Bharat.

 

Same thing happened with the names of our ancient cities such as

Dilli. If British people spoiled our names we are more stupid to

accept them and not correct them. The ancient name of Delhi was Indra

Prastham, but in the modern times it was Dilli. The name was changed

to Dehli in Hindi, however later L and H letters in Dehli got swapped

and became the current Delhi. Like I said names are not meant to be

translated but we Bharatiyas feel proud when we call Delhi in an

English sentence and Dilli or Dehli in Hindi sentence.

 

The name Satluj river is still written as Sutlej. The name should we

written as the sounds of the consonants and vowels make the word. So

why Sutlej and not Satluj.

 

Name of some cities such as Mussorie and Dalhousie should be turned

back to the original town names. There must be at least some small

villages there with some names. Those names should be given back to

the appropriate English cities.

 

Why do we call New Delhi and not Nai Dilli, or Nai Dehli or Nai

Dehli. Did we forget Nai Dilli is in India and not in some English

spoken country. We have thousands of Bharatiya Languages to choose

the translation of New, then why we chose New and not Nai or one of

the other meanings of Nai. Shame on us.