Economy

Will India alter its own name to Bharat?

.SINCE the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) involved energy in 2014 it has applied policies to mould India according to its own Hindu-nationalist vision. Now it might be poised to apply the best eye-catching change as yet: relabeling the nation. In the course of the G20 summit in Delhi, on September 9th and 10th, Narendra Modi, the prime minister, rested behind a nameplate carved with "Bharat", the Hindi label for India.