New Delhi: At Delhi’s Purana Qila this week, a five-minute anthem was blasted across the ramparts: “Ye Indraprastha hai” (This is Indraprastha). The event...
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Dream come true if Bharata renames Dehli/Delhi to its original name Indraprastha.
For anyone still wondering, Dehli is literally dehliz or gateway because Dehli served as the gateway to the rest of Bharata for (you guessed it) “peaceful” invaders.
And Delhi is simply how the gora sahibs and their spiritual successors, the brown goras and (in modern idiom) the burger kiddos spelt it.
Indraprastha is not a mere gateway but the Pandava capital. Bharatiya names are not a joke and Bharatiya languages not so utterly dead that we need Urduised or Anglicised corruptions to be the only official names.
So wholeheartedly welcome the restoration of the original name and true identity of the city.
Dream come true if Bharata renames Dehli/Delhi to its original name Indraprastha.
For anyone still wondering, Dehli is literally dehliz or gateway because Dehli served as the gateway to the rest of Bharata for (you guessed it) “peaceful” invaders.
And Delhi is simply how the gora sahibs and their spiritual successors, the brown goras and (in modern idiom) the burger kiddos spelt it.
Indraprastha is not a mere gateway but the Pandava capital. Bharatiya names are not a joke and Bharatiya languages not so utterly dead that we need Urduised or Anglicised corruptions to be the only official names.
So wholeheartedly welcome the restoration of the original name and true identity of the city.