It is truly gratifying to note that one of the strategic objectives outlined in the Strategic Plan Enhancing Bhārat's Positivity, And the World's: A Strategic Plan of August 01, 2022 is coming to fruition.
'Bharat, not India': Calls for renaming in Parliament’s special session
I hope that the official writing of the name Bhārat will include the diacritical mark (a straight bar ¯ placed above the letter a) to indicate that it is a long vowel. I also wish that the Government will also utilize this opportunity to change the call sign VT on all civilian aircraft registered in India, as indicated below.
The Strategic Objective 5 in the Strategic Plan was elaborated in the following words.
Strategy 5: Restore the culture of Bhārat and the legendary name of the nation.
The preservation and development of our cultural heritage should be an ongoing process as not much concerted efforts have been attempted at restoring the destroyed physical heritages consisting of ancient monuments, antiquities, historic archaeological sites, museums, galleries etc. There are several intangible cultural heritages in the form of languages, dialects, paintings, writings songs, music, dance, theatre, folk traditions, performing arts, rites and rituals, etc. that need to be nurtured and preserved.
The humongous diversity of Bhārat's rich cultural heritage is evident to the whole world in the form of one of the world's largest collections of tangible and intangible objects that we inherited from the past generations. The existing Ministry of Culture, Government of India can provide the lead in executing this strategy of restoring the culture of Bhārat.
Another important element of this strategy is the restoration of the legendary and celebrated name Bhārat to our nation. The name Bhārat in Sanskrit means “One who is engaged in search of knowledge” and symbolizes the historical and cultural traditions of our country.
The name India is devoid of any meaning as it is an anglicized form of the name Indus, which is a corrupted version of the Sanskrit name Sindhu, the name of the trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia.
The first Article of the Constitution of India in Part I titled The Union and its Territory states:
ARTICLE 1 : NAME AND TERRITORY OF THE UNION
That is, the visionary framers of the constitution of the nation have retained with foresight both the names India and Bhārat in our constitution that came into force on 26th January 1950. It is time to duly acknowledge their wisdom and rationale by implementing this singular name change probably on its 73rd anniversary in 2023.
This will be an opportune time to also revise the call sign prefix ‘VT’, the nationality code that all aircrafts registered in India is required to carry. The present call sign on Indian aircrafts is a legacy of the British Raj as it stands for ‘Victorian Territory’ or ‘Viceroy Territory’.
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