My advice to the opposition of India, who call themselves India (Solid advice)

The Reserve Bank of India is Bharatiya Reserve Bank on every currency note. Madras became Chennai, Bangalore became Bengaluru, Bombay we now call Mumbai, and Kerala is Keralam. However, if India becomes Bharat, we have a problem. It should be Bharata “m.” We need a Dravidian touch also. Don't we? What is the use of such naming fights? Look at the price rise and rupee decline in the past ten years. Focus on real issues, not on non-issues. 

Hindutva will distract you from the reality. Your opponents want you to fight against Hindi. It is a trap. You cannot win if you challenge Hindi —the language of 600+ million Indians (2011 census). Instead of Bharat and India fight, focus on that which matters. People need jobs, fairness, poverty alleviation, and relief from rising oil and food prices, not cultural conflicts.

People below India’s poverty line (BPL) are more than a hundred and fifty million. We reached this figure after repeatedly revising the benchmark to make us look “developing” on the paper. Ten years ago, a BPL person in India needed around one dollar. Now, they need only half a dollar to escape poverty. Money can solve many problems for poor people: food, medicines, clothes, and shelter. 

 

However, our government is busy making people poorer. Prices of essential commodities have tripled, and the dollar value has doubled in the last ten years. But the poverty line has barely changed. It was thirty rupees then, and now it is forty plus two. Then, the thirty rupee was worth around one dollar. Now, forty rupees are half a dollar. 

 

The lower middle class is reeling with impossible-to-carry burdens. Despite paying all our taxes and cesses regularly, there is no concession for potholes in our bad roads, sach Bharat waste blocking our drainages, and cistern-like bribing officials in our administration. 

 

The authorities have revised the poverty line such that they will need to help fewer poor people with daily rations. The income disparity is so high that we have more millionaires and billionaires than other SEAN countries. Also, we have a record number of poor people, as always. 

 

Even after the revised poverty line, India still has more poor people than other countries. We need measures to improve people’s lives and more parity in income. Therefore, develop roads, schools, medicine, cleanliness, and technology instead of wasting people’s prime time on PM’s favorite topic: Hindi (Hindu, Hindustan).