INDIA | NATIONALISM | LANGUAGE

Why is India letting go of its oldest geographical name?

(By sheer ignorance? Or faux nationalism?)

Francis Laleman
4 min readSep 6, 2023

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Sapta-Sindhu — image by Muhammad Asif Nawaz, 2015

India is preparing for a name change. This is problematic in more than one sense.

It isn’t merely that the name India sits firmly anchored in the Indian Constitution, a uniquely outstanding piece…

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Francis Laleman

a husband, father, painter, writer, educationist, designer, facilitator. author of “Resourceful Exformation” (a book on facilitation) available from Amazon.