Controversy queen Kangana Ranaut has expressed her desire to change India’s name to Bharat. Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut is always attracting headlines. Earlier, her controversial remarks resulted in suspension of her Twitter account. The controversy queen continues to quip on other social media platforms. Lately, Kangana joined homegrown social media platform “Koo”. The actress is utilizing the platform to voice her unabashed opinions. On Tuesday, Kanagana Ranaut took to her Instagram and Koo accounts expressing her desire to change India’s name.
Kangana wrote, “India can only rise if it’s rooted in its ancient spirituality. Our wisdom is the soul of our great civilisation. World will look up to us and we will emerge as a world leader if we go higher in urban growth. We should not be cheap copy of western world. We must remain deeply rooted in Vedas, Geeta and Yoga. Can we please change this slave name India back to Bharat.” She shared a screenshot of her post as a story on Instagram.
In another post Kangana clarified her views, “British gave us slave name India, which literally means east of Indus River. Really would you call a child small nose or second born or worse C section. What kind of a name is this? So rudimentary. Let me tell you meaning of Bharat. It’s made of three Sanskrit words BH (bhav), Ra (rag), ta (tal). Yes that’s who we were before we were enslaved. We are most culturally and aesthetically evolved civilisation. Every name has a vibration and British knew this. They not only gave new names to places but even to people and important monuments. We must regain our lost glory, let’s start with the name Bharat.”
Many netizens commented on her posts. One of them hit back at Kangana and tweeted, “Kangana Ranaut says India is a ‘slave name’ given by British. Therefore, must be replaced with Bharat. But who’s going to tell her that before British there was neither India nor Bharat?”