A person (obviously, a hard right-winger) who was arguing with me that India is not a ‘Union of States’ (and that Rahul Gandhi is an ignorant Pappu and so on) kept referring to the country as ‘Bharat’.
(Side note: They want RaGa to be arrested for sullying the good name of the nation, in the same breath that they claim that the Gandhi family is now irrelevant and he has no power at all to do anything to the strong Vishwaguru that the country has become under The Supreme Leader).
Anyway, to score a point, I asked them where they got this name for our country, to which they replied that it was a historical name embedded in our past and our culture. They went on to emphasise how this is mentioned in the Constitution too. I asked them where. ‘I don’t remember, but it is’, I was assured. I informed them that this is indeed so and appears in literally the very first line. ‘Yes, yes. I remember now. I have read it,’ they claimed. I asked them if they had taken the trouble to read the entire line. ‘Yes, of course. I have read the Constitution,’ came the confident reply.
My simple question: What do you do about such people?
