Why former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Annadurai decided against renaming Madras state as Tamizh Naadu

Annadurai wanted to avoid the retroflex consonant ‘zha’ to make it easier for people who did not speak Tamil.

Sruthisagar Yamunan

· Jun 18, 2020 · 09:00 am

Delhi: Hindu Sena blackens signboard on Babur Road, wants it to be renamed after a ‘great Indian’

Hindu Sena President Vishnu Gupta said they did not want the road to be named after ‘a foreign invader’.

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· Sep 14, 2019 · 08:17 pm

The Dilli debate: Why should a city be known by only one name anyway?

A BJP MP’s attempts to erase the names Dehli and Delhi reflect a monolithic, majoritarian view of history.

Rizwan Ahmad

· Aug 08, 2019 · 12:30 pm

What’s in a name? From ‘Welcome to Sajjanpur’ to ‘Finding Fanny’, Bollywood movies offer an answer

As the government continues to rename cities and towns, some films offer insight into how a place’s name shapes its residents and fortunes.

Damini Kulkarni

· Jan 30, 2019 · 08:15 am

Calling millennials ‘snowflakes’ isn’t just inaccurate but also bad news for mental health awareness

Deriding a generation as weak and sensitive is nasty, patently false and actively harms progress on tackling mental health.

Shelly Haslam-Ormerod, The Conversation

· Jan 16, 2019 · 11:30 pm

Scientists have found new spider species in Sri Lanka – and named them after Enid Blyton characters

Nine new species of ‘goblin spiders’ have been named after goblin characters from Enid Blyton’s children books.

Shreya Dasgupta

· Jun 25, 2018 · 08:30 pm

Kerala High Court names child after parents fail to agree on the matter

The five-year-old boy, now named Johan Sachin, needed a birth certificate to be eligible for school admissions.

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· May 10, 2018 · 09:46 am

Ramji reduction: Highlighting Ambedkar's middle name shows how superficially BJP engages with him

Ambedkar’s ideology stood in opposition to Hindutva. To suppress that using the accident of his middle name is a dangerous sleight of hand.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Apr 01, 2018 · 07:30 am

Rajasthan High Court sets aside state order to rename Rajiv Gandhi Seva Kendra after Atal Vajpayee

The bench suggested naming institutions after freedom fighters to avoid such controversies.

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· Jan 20, 2018 · 09:56 am

Centre has no plans to remove ‘Muslim’ and ‘Hindu’ from AMU, BHU names, clarifies Prakash Javadekar

The suggestion was made to ensure that the secular nature of the universities is clear, an official had said.

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· Oct 09, 2017 · 11:14 am

Doctors body fights for freedom on prescriptions, tells government to focus on price

The government is considering rules to make doctors write only generic names of drugs in prescriptions.

Priyanka Vora

· May 02, 2017 · 02:30 pm

BJP legislator alleges harassment at airports because of his Gaikwad surname

The Maharashtra MP has apprised Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha of the matter.

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· Mar 31, 2017 · 12:19 pm