My response to someone on a Facebook (G Awaaz ? ) page on the same topic.
with miniscule changes:
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If you guys wish that it be so, then consider naming our nation, Bharat
Mata. A complete integral concept. Think of it. Then remember all the
stellar women whose skirts we have held onto to take our
I am not surprised that John Gomes was disturbed by some nationalist attempt to
rename India Bharat.
This name ‘Bharat’ taken from the hero of a Hindu epic may appease the Hindu
majority but mean nothing to the minorities (some 200m Muslims, Christians).
This lack of sensitivity to non-Hindu
