Posted on: 25-12-05 11:14:43
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Orginally posted by indianamerican
Ahmedabad is not officially Karnavati yet but Vadodra is. Karnavati was the right name before Moghuls changed the name. India should be Bharat because India was trisected in three countries by the British. Therefore, now the real name should be Bharat. However, not official yet.
Bombay IS Bombay, Calcutta IS Calcutta, Ahmedabad IS Ahmedabad and India IS India
You cannot change the history by changing the names. It is like turning a blind eye to your past. The cities of Bombay and Calcutta are a British legacy to us. If it was not for Britishers, Bombay might still be a group of small island in Arabian sea. However we may hate them - we still must be thankful Britishers for many things in Indian culture.
For starters, if a command on English language was not our prerogative, we would not have been able to start this whole Call Centre or even the Software "revolution" in India.
Such idea of name changing is just a byproduct of fundamentalist politicians,who have nothing better to do than try to play with religious sentiments of Indians
Meghal
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Orginally posted by indianamerican
. Karnavati was the right name before Moghuls changed the name.
If people have objection against Ahmedabad, they should attribute to the failure of Hindu rulers of uniting against the Arab invasion.
Meghal
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Orginally posted by indianamerican
Ahmedabad is not officially Karnavati yet but Vadodra is. Karnavati was the right name before Moghuls changed the name. India should be Bharat because India was trisected in three countries by the British. Therefore, now the real name should be Bharat. However, not official yet.
Bharat is an offical name and always was.
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"Progress comes from deviation".
On a side note if anybody finds my comments or posts offensive or irritating please ignore it and if that still bothers you; please write to me and I will demonstrate.
I guess I have hit somebody's inner nerve. I cannot blame you, because lot of folks in Bharat thinks alike. Yet we need to move on and establish our own identity. We are not a 'raj' anymore nor a part of some ancient empire.
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all is well that ends well
There was no Bharat or one country. There were several kings ruling there independent countries called rajputa na, maratha,malwa etc.
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Orginally posted by indianamerican
Ahmedabad is not officially Karnavati yet but Vadodra is. Karnavati was the right name before Moghuls changed the name. India should be Bharat because India was trisected in three countries by the British. Therefore, now the real name should be Bharat. However, not official yet.
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You know you are a desi when ........ You spew forth the virtues of India, but don't want to live there...............You've never had a tanning salon membership
It might be interesting to simulate the senario, if britishers were not there, what might be political map of "India". There might be separate countries like "Chittor", "Vadodara" ..... etc -- many of them might be in the list of poorest countires like Africa .... However many might be like Germany or Japan. It is easier to manage small than big and people with enterprenour skills - like gujjus, marwardirs and the state they belong to might have done better than they are doing right now.
I guess we were talking about Lucknow in Canada. Topic Change?
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