<!--QuoteBegin-Bhavv+Sep 9 2008, 01:59 PM-->QUOTE(Bhavv @ Sep 9 2008, 01:59 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->If you choose to speak English, then it is India.[right][snapback]87740[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Hmmm. Thinking about this, it's not necessarily so. Since it is in fact Bharatam to Dharmics. (Besides, it's also one of its official names when written in English language documents.) And when Dharmics speak in whatever language, they have the right to opt referring to their own country as Bharatam - which is its actual name. It's our country after all. We may <i>choose</i> to refer to it as 'India' on such occasions where we deem it expedient. But it's real and original name - to its Dharmic inhabitants - is Bharatam (plus its other real and original Dharmic names), whether we say it or not.
Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Cambodia have all reverted to their original Dharmic names: no longer called Ceylon, Formosa and Indochine (was it) anymore, even in Engelsk. Only some christoconverts in SL still refer to it by the name of Ceylon, like "Ceylon Tea" and "Made in Ceylon".
Christoislamics are free to call Bharatam as per their imagination (free to be colonially enslaved still and imagine it is actually really called India). Certainly don't want to get them damned for eternity by their non-existent gawd for saying sacred Hindu names, now do we.
Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Cambodia have all reverted to their original Dharmic names: no longer called Ceylon, Formosa and Indochine (was it) anymore, even in Engelsk. Only some christoconverts in SL still refer to it by the name of Ceylon, like "Ceylon Tea" and "Made in Ceylon".
Christoislamics are free to call Bharatam as per their imagination (free to be colonially enslaved still and imagine it is actually really called India). Certainly don't want to get them damned for eternity by their non-existent gawd for saying sacred Hindu names, now do we.