Who Is An Indian?

The word 'India' comes from the word 'Indus', called 'Sindhu' in Sanskrit. The Greeks and Iranians called it 'Hindos' or 'Indos' meaning the land to the east of the river called Indus. The name Bharat was used by the people who lived in the North-West. Only Britishers began calling the undivided bharath as India not even Baber or akbar or Aurangazeep! Bharat was once a part of bharat continent which included the Asian continent.

In our hindu rituals even today we utter phrases bharata ganday ( continent) Bharatha varshe moorohho... in Constitution too ithe word Bharath suffixed as
“ union of India that is Bharat”..

I should be liked called as Bharatvasi. Many are seen tocelebrate being called as Bengali or Tamilian or andhrite or delhite etc but in foriegn lands they prefer to call theselves as Asian or Indian depending on the local sentiments . I was told Pak commands more respect than indian in United States Canada and UK.

LOT OF DISCRETION REQUIRED IN FOREIGN LANDS TO disclose One’s nation or mother country . Disclosing in thoughtless manner has scope to antagonise that might end up in bitterness in public places and in restaurants.

Patriots of the nation in the past were proud to announce the selves as true bharatvasi than as keralite or madrasį or bengali or andhrite or kannadiga. Those generations have gone. It may be true of us people or citizens too.

Now whenever and wherever it is convenient, we call ourselves as globalite and tomtom about “think global and act local”.

 

Everyone must realize that thewy are human first. They should also resisit being labelled on the basis of nationality, rACE, CREED AND OTHER DIVISIVE FACTOR.S What matters is not who is a true Indian butr whom is a true citizen of this world. A citizen of the world does not do anything that will endanger the existence of not only his species but all life and is not blinded mby greed into making planet earth unlivable and realizes that this is the only world we have.

 

There could be none by this yard-stick. In one way or other, knowingly or unknowingly the world and its beings are harmed by others. The harming effects could be macro or micro. A distant nation in clandestine manner test nuclear device under the ocean may trigger tsunami or floods or land slides in other part or parts of the world. Plastic produced elsewhere eventually harms marine life in oceans. What is banned but allowed for export like DDT spoils the agricultural soil in recipient nations. One can go on with examples adnauseum. Package materials eventually accumulated unrecyclable lands in huge gutter and lakes and in Yamuna .

 

Charity and respect for all beings begins at home. If we cannot love our own country and people, it is unlikely we will be able to have any concern for anyone else in this world.