Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has replaced the name India with a Sanskrit word in dinner invitations sent to guests attending this week’s Group of 20 summit, in a move that reflects his Hindu nationalist party’s efforts to eliminate what it sees as colonial-era names.
I’ll just drop this here. The whole thing is pretty dumb. They probably did this cause the opposition parties fromed an alliance called the INDIA Alliance.
https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/trends/story/comes-from-rig-veda-mythologist-devdutt-pattanaik-on-the-origins-of-india-bharat-397162-2023-09-06