India Gets a Different Name in Modi’s G-20 Invitation
A bus shelter displaying a G20 poster with an image of Narendra Modi, in New Delhi on Sept. 4.
Photographer: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has replaced India with an ancient Sanskrit word in dinner invitations for the Group of Twenty summit, echoing his party’s Hindu nationalist push to erase from society what it deems to be colonial-era names.