Bharat or India

On which side are you, Bharat or India?

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So the rumour is that our current government is officially changing the name of
India to Bharat, and it started with a dinner table invitation.

The thing is, the Rastrapati Bhawan was to send the invitation to the delegates of
the G20 in the name of "President of India" for dinner, but the word India has been
replaced with Bharat.

This whole incident created a big controversy, while The opposition is claiming
that the current government got scared of the I.N.D.I.A.'s alliance and that fear
led them to change the name. Meanwhile, some leaders also believe that the
government is all set to change the name from India to Bharat in the forthcoming
special session of parliament.

This is not the first time that the change of name has created controversy. Names
like Allahabad and Amin also changed into Prayagraj and Abhimanyupur, respectively.

In case you don't know,

Bharat is also our country's other official name, which was selected in 1949 when
some favoured the new name India and some preferred to go with the old name. So the
drafting committee of the constitution decided to use both names.

Why Bharat?

Bharat is the name derived from the Sanskrit word Bharatam, which is mentioned in
the Vishnu Puran along with the detailed landscape of our country.

The Puranas also described Bharata as the land between the "sea in the south and
the abode of snow in the north".

If we turn the pages of the holy book Mahabharata, we'll find that there was also a
king named Bharata, the son of King Dushyant and Shakuntala, the ancestor of the
Kauravas and Pandavas.

How India?

The name ‘India’ originates from the River Sindhu and the very ancient and popular
Indus Valley civilization.

The Aryans (Indo-Iranian people) named the river Sindhu (a Sanskrit word). Later
on, the Persians made Sindhu the equivalent of Hindu. The Greeks pronounced the
name Indus.

The name Sindhu is also mentioned in the Rig-Veda, one of the oldest Indo-European
texts. Composed in the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent roughly
between 1700 and 1100 BC.

So here is the whole epistemology of both names.

Let's see what the next big news is for "India that is Bharat".