Justified demand to re-spell Delhi: All re-spellings and re-naming of cities and states should be in one go
It refers to justified and logical demand raised by BJP Parliamentarian Vijay Goel in Rajya Sabha on 24.07.2019 for re-spell British-distorted spelling of Delhi as Dilli. But re-spelling should be Dehli which means entrance, and was a common household name till several decades after independence. Even Dilli is the distorted name. Many other countries like Bangladesh and China have already respelled names of their capitals as per actual pronunciation.
Central government should also accept resolution by West Bengal state-assembly to re-name the state to remove confusing pre-fix West and to have a name in Bangla rather than English. Only old-timers know that since western part of pre-independence undivided Bengal came to India, the state was named as West Bengal, and East Bengal turned int...








