“Don’t summarily dismiss ‘One Nation One Poll’“, Sunday Guardian Live, September 10, 2023:

“Some of the arguments being deployed against implementing One Nation One Poll are bizarre, among them being the worry that there may be a fixed term for Parliament and the state Assemblies, just as there is in the US.

Now that there is speculation that the emphasis in “India that is Bharat” will be on Bharat and not on India, those political parties that believe themselves capable of defeating the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls are in effect clamouring that it is actually “India that is not Bharat”, so opposed are they to any initiative that is seen as being taken by the Union Government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

In actuality, “Bharat” has a greater resonance than “India”, for the reason that the classical name of our country brings to mind the multiple millennia in which our civilisation has continued, while “India” brings to many minds the history of the country only from the days when the British were its overlords, when the recorded history of India that is Bharat, or to put it in another way, Bharat that is India, stretches back five millennia by the most conservative of estimates. To ignore the centuries of servitude before 1947 is wrong, but so is the dismissal of the over five millennia before that period…..”

Read the full article at Sundayguardianlive.com