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...

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Britain renamed Bharat to India when it was colonized, and the name is a symbol of colonial slavery.

  • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    1 year ago

    It’s as if Germany tomorrow decided to demand that English speakers would be required to call their country Deutschland.

    Turkey did exactly that.

    Ukraine even tried to rename… Russia.

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      Well, in Turkey’s case it’s easier because the old and the new variant sound and are spelled very similarly so nobody will be confused no matter which you use.

      As for the other one, well… Ukraine be crazy right now is all i can say to that.