Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has replaced the name India with a Sanskrit word in dinner invitations sent to guests attending this week’s Group of 20 summit, in a move that reflects his Hindu nationalist party’s efforts to eliminate what it...
Britain renamed Bharat to India when it was colonized, and the name is a symbol of colonial slavery.
Bharat means India? In my country, barat means west, and guess what, India is to the west from this country. Learned something new today.
Love seeing word lore
Even this community talks a lot about The West. Here’s one example that we might all be westerners depending on the perspective :)