७ सप्टेंबर, २०२३

"I hope the government will not be so foolish as to completely dispense with India, which has incalculable brand value built up over centuries."

Said Shashi Tharoor of the opposition Congress party, quoted in "India or Bharat? Invites fuel speculation that the country could change its name" (CNBC)("Invites" refers to an invitation to a dinner reception at the G20 summit that came from the "President of Bharat").

६० टिप्पण्या:

Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

I propose New India.

rehajm म्हणाले...

I hope the government will not be so foolish as to completely dispense with India, which has incalculable brand value built up over centuries

Two names creates brand confusion. If there's built up brand value in 'India' may I suggest selling the name to another nation interested in improving its global image? Maybe send the dog and pony show to the taliban in Afghanistan first...

re Pete म्हणाले...

"Some of these people don't know which road to take"

Enigma म्हणाले...

I suppose that ends my plan to call North American natives "American Bharats."

The Cleveland Bharats baseball team and Washington Red-Bharats could not be reached for comment?

Shucks.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Indian means native American.

Leland म्हणाले...

Next thing you know, they'll change the name of Bombay.

gahrie म्हणाले...

Currently the United Kingdom is headed by someone of Indian heritage, and two of the Republican candidates for president are Indian-Americans. India is making huge strides on a shoestring budget in space. Today there are a billion cellphones in use in India, and India exports food.

Kudos to the world's largest democracy.

Kate म्हणाले...

Would Native Americans be called Bharatians?

gahrie म्हणाले...

The two names are used interchangeably in India already.

gahrie म्हणाले...

Holland or The Netherlands?

gilbar म्हणाले...

I thought we were supposed to call it Native America?
Or, our we supposed to call it Indigenous Peoples? It's ALL SO CONFUSING!!

seriously, if they DO change the name of the subcontinent to Bharat..
Can we go back to calling Our indians, indians?

effinayright म्हणाले...

Just as we still call Deutschland "Germany", and Oesterreich "Austria", we can still call Bharat "India".

tommyesq म्हणाले...

I love that the branding statement came from "X, formerly known as Twitter."

WK म्हणाले...

Borat?

tim in vermont म्हणाले...

Bharat is Hindi for "Fuck you Britain."

It seems as though countries are getting sick of being pushed around by the West. Look what we just did to Pakistan, threatened dire consequences if they didn't jail the most popular politician in the country. Forced them to act like a banana republic, well, like all of the other banana republics we run.

BRICS has become about lowering the status of the G20, neither Putin nor Xi will attend the G20, let it be a vassals club where the US can gather leaders together to give orders, and these name changes, like that of Turkiye, are part of the status lowering of the English language.

rrsafety म्हणाले...

I'll call it India either way.

Limited blogger म्हणाले...

Will West Indies then need to be renamed?

Leland म्हणाले...

From the nation's constitution:

PART I
THE UNION AND ITS TERRITORY
1. Name and territory of the Union. — (1) India, that is Bharat, shall be
a Union of States.


Is it changing the name or using the name that is in the document that established the government?

Dave Begley म्हणाले...

Rebranding.

We should change our name: The Disunited States of America.

Original Mike म्हणाले...

I have to buy another globe?

PM म्हणाले...

A national name change in a nation of 1.4 billion people.
Print shops rejoice.

Kevin म्हणाले...

For $10 million Joe Biden will start using the new name.

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

Just call it 7-11.

Rich म्हणाले...

Why not rename it to Twitter since that name is now free and comes with instant brand recognition?

Temujin म्हणाले...

What do we then call people from that land? Bharatians?

Our young people, who are not taught geography anyway, won't notice the difference until some friends suggest they go to that Bharatian restaurant everyone is talking about, and they reply that they prefer Indian food.

BTW, I'm considering changing my brand to Jam Jalthouse.

Rich म्हणाले...

Well done to Bharat for landing on the moon.

Next achievement to unlock is water that comes out of the tap that they can drink, an electricity supply that doesn’t need ‘load shedding’ and a functional healthcare and education system.

Readering म्हणाले...

I miss Formosa, Ceylon, Burma and Siam.

LakeLevel म्हणाले...

gahrie said...
"Holland or The Netherlands?"

It's The Dutch Republic.

Static Ping म्हणाले...

Ah, a Persia/Iran situation.

It is their country and they can call it what they want. It is just a matter of how much short to medium term confusion they are willing to tolerate.

Old and slow म्हणाले...

Blogger gahrie said...
Holland or The Netherlands?

One is a subset of the other. Though colloquially they are often used interchangeably.

Buckwheathikes म्हणाले...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12491549/Girl-gang-raped-burned-alive-sex-attack-India.html

Yeah, that's some brand they got going there.

Robert Marshall म्हणाले...

Here's the good news, at least:

If it happens, at least we'll no longer have to wonder whether the "Indian" referred to in conversation is of the "dot" or "feather" crowd.

n.n म्हणाले...

Indian, you say. The misinformation... nay, disinformation of ambiguous labels... and colors.

Ralph L म्हणाले...

Someone needs to point out the "RAT" at the end.

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent म्हणाले...

You may as well rename it Comic Book Fart. "India" may have colonialist associations but it's incredibly rich with historical and cultural associations.

Not to mention that India, as even the idea of a nation, didn't exist until the palefaces showed up.

mesquito म्हणाले...

We call Norge “Norway” Suomi “Finland” and Deutchland “Germany”. That’s our right as speakers, of, you know, a language. Why that doesn’t apply to Bombay and Burma is a mystery.

Patrick म्हणाले...

Hardly anyone remembers Upper Volta these days.

gspencer म्हणाले...

Countries have brands?

Like Brussels sprouts, or Peking Duck?

Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

The country formerly known as India.

tcrosse म्हणाले...

What happens to Indiana?

Rabel म्हणाले...

I'm all for it if only because it would put an end to that annoying "with a dot/with a feather" thing.

cassandra lite म्हणाले...

If it changes its name to Bharat, then its citizens become Bharatis, and we no longer have to clarify, when referring to Indians, "dot, not feather."

rsbsail म्हणाले...

Meh....names of places change all the time. Look at Constantinople. The Ottomans conquered it in 1453, but the Turks didn't get around to changing the name until after WW1.

Kevin म्हणाले...

The Ottomans conquered it in 1453, but the Turks didn't get around to changing the name until after WW1.

How important could it have been?

Oso Negro म्हणाले...

I think we can call them "Bharats"

RMc म्हणाले...

"Limeyland Southeast".

mikee म्हणाले...

Rebranding worked for the communists in Peking, demanding the world kowtow & change all references to the Party-desired Beijing. India did that with Chennai, previously called Madras in a slight to the actual city by the East India Company. Ceylon is now Sri Lanka. French Indochina is now Vietnam (and didn't that take some effort to accomplish!). Zimbabwe and other post colonial African nations do this name change all the time. So why not the same flex for the entire subcontinent of Bharat?

Lucien म्हणाले...

Can’t they just change pronouns like normal people and leave the name alone?

Narr म्हणाले...

Regardless of any change of name, millions of untouchables will still call it home.

India is taken from the Indus, not as I assumed out of "Hindu."

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Crayola will be free to bring back Indian Red.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

They're changing Germany to Deutschland to better match local pronunciation.

Narr म्हणाले...

"Peking," under the transliteration system of a lunatic, was meant to be pronounced "Bey-jing."

So that was more a correction than a change.

Narayanan म्हणाले...

what is not being reported is anti-Modi parties banded together to form INDIA

Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
‘INDIA’, which stands for Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance, comprises 26 opposition parties so far.

=>>>>> psyops

chickelit म्हणाले...

If Western Civilization can handle a switch from Hellas to Greece, it can handle a switch from India to Bharat.

Lokeish Umak म्हणाले...

Being an Indian, I support India to Bharat as it was previously.

The Crack Emcee म्हणाले...

Fascists originally changed the name of India for spiritual reasons. But nothing like that happens here.

Nope, we talk about politics all day, and just let the spiritual stuff ride,...

Rocco म्हणाले...

Narr said...
"India is taken from the Indus, not as I assumed out of 'Hindu'."

The word "Hindu" originates from the Indus river, too. And the name Indus itself comes from the Sanskrit word "Sindhu", which simply means "river".

That is similar to the situation in Western Europe where the names of the Rhine and Rhone rivers are suspected to derive from a word in a pre-Indo-European language that simply means "flow".

Rocco म्हणाले...

They should change their name to the Commanders. Or the Guardians.

Rocco म्हणाले...

rhhardin said...
"They're changing Germany to Deutschland to better match local pronunciation."

It's easier to pronounce in Turkish or Arabic?

Narr म्हणाले...

Thanks Rocco, I should have known that.

Rhine, Rhone, Run.