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Bharat is not divisive

WITH reference to the letter “India name change divisive” (POST, September 23–27), the writer is disseminating fake news, and parroting the inane comments of the Congress party of India.

The word “India” does not have Sanskrit origin. The word is an exonym, a name given by foreigners.

The pre-Islamic Persians found the Sanskrit name

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