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NA Newsline - Opinion SEPTEMBER 15, 2023 | The Indian Eye 38

India or Bharat, We Are The Same

You better change yourself, not your name!

THOMAS MATHEW JOYS created an excellent image globally
through decades.
ne of the most common Neither the people’s condition
reasons a country changes nor its poverty be swept away by such
Oits name is newly acquired reforms. If any government is so con-
independence. When borders are scientious in spending billions of
changed, sometimes due to a coun- rupees unnecessarily, please spend
try splitting or two countries joining, the money on homeless people and
the terms of the relevant areas can provide clean toilets at least one per
change. “For example, Czechoslova- ten people inside the country, that is
kia got its name from the aggregation stinking!
of the Czech and Slovak peoples in I prefer the stuff inside the dress
1918. It peacefully dissolved into the to get intact than changing the name
Czech Republic and the Slovak Re- of the dress!
public in 1993”. People who do wrong are good at
I do not understand why Rahul justifying. So, express your thoughts
Gandhi did “Bharat Jodo” March as Chanakya said. Try to pretend
across Indian states, but his followers like an idiot if you are sure you won’t
oppose the name change from India win! It may be synonymous with my
to Bharat. us, who are reeling under the misrule cost involved in the change. Let the quintessential view on the topic.
This is not to those who be- of any government, recovering from people or the elected representatives
lieve that when the name of India is the devastation of COVID and the decide for the change, quite demo- The views expressed in this article are
changed to Bharat, it is only the cost impact of demonetization. Just think cratically. the writer’s own and do not reflect the
of the ink that appears on letters. It is about it. Madras Mail is still running India is a good name that has editorial position of The Indian Eye
to the naive who ask what happens to through Cochin, though Chennai and
India now. India becomes Bharat not Kochi are in papers, and passengers
only on paper. remain the same.
We will be forced to change Re- How many lakhs of crores will
serve Bank of India to Reserve Bank have to be spent from our tax mon-
of Bharath as soon as possible in ey only for the two or three things
the currencies issued by the Reserve mentioned above? Where will this
Bank. Another demonetization or money come from? What is the need
demonetization is the biggest disaster for imposing heavy tax additionally
that awaits us. on the people? India is not going to
Thousands of official documents change anything because of this name
used by India’s 140 crore people on a change. The demand of some fanatic
daily basis, including passports, Aad- organization is to divide the people of
haar cards, Pan Cards, Driving Li- India by using this name. This is just
censes, and identity cards, will soon a copy of the divide-and-rule policy
need to be updated. This change will practiced by the British.
have to be made possible in crores of Some so-called celebrities are
government documents. also claiming and arguing that the
Airports officially named India name India should be changed to
must be renamed in lakhs of places, Bharat. They are trying to spread the
including government and semi-gov- aftereffects of the communal poison
ernment institutions. This change injected from the veins to the mind
will have to be made in the textbooks, and even to the country’s soul. It is
reference books, and historical docu- to them who ask if a name change is
ments of the growing new generation. trivial.
This change will have to be imple- India is my country. Without any
mented in systems, including Indian caste or creed, we are proud to say
embassies in foreign countries. Simi- that we are Indians. But when you
larly, in thousands and tens of thou- say Bharatheeyan impeccably, it de-
sands of places, this change has to be mands some other meaning. If you
demonstrated directly and indirectly insist on it, the hidden agenda is clear.
in subjects. Not that name change is On the contrary, if it is inevitable
impossible. to change the country’s name, let
This name change will be anoth- the government educate the people
er calamity that can be inflicted on about its needs and the unbearable

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