Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
I'm sorry to say they they're completely wrong The name India exists for a couple thousand years we know when the British were still running around in skins far from colonizing any of us And if you go back to you know 2,000 years ago to the writings of Herodotus Megasthenes the Greek historians they spoke of India The idea is that the the River Sindhu or Indus was the defining element What lay beyond was India And interestingly enough the Persians couldn't pronounce the S So the Sindhu the people beyond the Sindhu they wanted to call them by some name so they said They're the Hindus Now if you start abolishing the name India you'll have to start abolishing the term Hindu as well And no longer will the BJP be able to announce you know say with pride that you are because that's exactly the same etymology as saying Say with pride that I am Indian which I do and we've all been doing for 75 years.
I'm sorry to say they they're completely wrong The name India exists for a couple thousand years we know when the British were still running around in skins far from colonizing any of us And if you go back to you know 2,000 years ago to the writings of Herodotus Megasthenes the Greek historians they spoke of India The idea is that the the River Sindhu or Indus was the defining element What lay beyond was India And interestingly enough the Persians couldn't pronounce the S So the Sindhu the people beyond the Sindhu they wanted to call them by some name so they said They're the Hindus Now if you start abolishing the name India you'll have to start abolishing the term Hindu as well And no longer will the BJP be able to announce you know say with pride that you are because that's exactly the same etymology as saying Say with pride that I am Indian which I do and we've all been doing for 75 years.
