It is tough to keep Kangana Ranaut away from the news. She always finds a way to make headlines and recently, the multiple National Award winner spoke about replacing India with ‘Bharat’ which became quite controversial in National politics. With her ‘Chandamukhi 2’ releasing on 15th September, she is all busily promoting the film in Chennai but her comments on this issue have garnered a lot of attention.
She tweeted, “And some call it black magic …. It’s simply Grey matter honey (similing face emoticon) Congratulations to everyone!! Freed from a slave name … Jai Bharat.” She went on to explain, “What is there to love in this name? First of all they couldn’t pronounce ‘Sindhu’ toh usko bigad ke ‘ Indus’ kar diya. Phir kabhi Hindos kabhi Indos kuch bhi gol mol karke India bana diya. (They turned Sindhu into Indus. Then Hindos became Indos) From the time of Mahabharata, all the kingdoms who participated in the Great War of Kurukshetra came under one continent called Bharat so why were they calling us Indu Sindu??”
She went on to add, “Also the name Bharat is so meaningful, what is the meaning of India? I know they called Red Indians because in olden English Indian simply meant a slave, they named us Indians because that was our new identity given to us by the British. Even in the olden days dictionary Indian’s meaning was mentioned as slave they recently changed it. Also, it’s not our name we are Bhartiya, not Indians.”
Kangana is currently working on the post-production works of ‘Emergency’ which she directed. She played the role of the late Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the movie. Apart from this film, she is doing ‘Tejas’, she is promoting ‘Chandramukhi 2’ right now.
