Name Game
Names matter much. How can, for example, the road which houses
the Prime Minister of Bharatvarsha be called Race Course Road? Since the welfare of the masses is the PM’s
primary concern, the road of his residence was rechristened as Lok Kalyan
Marg. Many roads in Delhi underwent such
baptisms after Mr Modi became the Prime Minister of Lok Kalyan.
Aurangzeb Road became APJ
Abdul Kalam Road. Dalhousie Road became
Dara Shikoh Road. Akbar is all set to
lose out to Maharana Pratap. While we
can understand BJP’s hatred of the British and the Mughals, it may not be easy
to understand why the Teen Murti Marg had to be given an Israeli name: Haifa
Marg.
Recently Shashi Tharoor claimed
that 23 of the welfare schemes implemented by the BJP were merely Congress
schemes rechristened. Examples:
National Girl Child Day
programmes → Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana
Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan → Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
Rajiv Awaas Yojana → Sardar Patel National Urban Housing Mission
Indira Awaas Yojana → Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana
Jawaharlal Nehru National
Urban Renewal Mission → Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and
Urban Transformation
“All seagulls look as
though their name were Emma,” said the German poet Christian Morgenstern. Under BJP all welfare schemes look as though
their name were Narendra Modi.
Dealt with from a different angle..Simply superb
ReplyDeletePolitics has crept into our bones so much that our writing cannot but be tainted!
DeleteFlames for 2 Names
ReplyDelete