Logic of renaming ‘West Bengal’ as Paschim Banga’ : Even I was confused for state known as ‘West Bengal’ (Paschim Banga in near future) It refers to media-reports about West Bengal being renamed as Paschim Banga from coming Bangla new-year day on 14th April 2014 after formal legislation in Parliament in the last session of current Parliament starting from 5thFebruary 2014. Basic aim of West Bengal government in renaming the state is said to be move state’s number somewhat upward in list of Indian states where presently it is listed in the last both in Roman and Devnagri scripts. Even though it may be another systematic change because proper nouns including names of states are never translated like in the present case when the state was written as West Bengal in Roman Script and Paschimi Bengal in Devnagri script, yet new name will remain as confusing as earlier. While making some students preparing for their examinations, a student made a curious enquiry why a state in eastern part of the country is named as ‘West Bengal’. Even I was not prepared for the curious question, and I had to seek explanation from my husband who clarified that since western part of pre-independence undivided Bengal came to India, the state was named as ‘West Bengal’, and ‘East Bengal’ turned into East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). To remove unnecessary confusion from minds of students and people, prefix ‘West’ (or Paschim) should be removed from name of the state. To avoid abbreviations like UP for Uttar Pradesh, MP for Madhya Pradesh etc, states should be named in single word. West Bengal should be simply renamed as Bangpradesh or some similar name without any prefix.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 05:41:40 +0000
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