India Vs Bharat Essay

Name : Richa Sinha
College Name : NMIMS, Bangalore
Competition Month/Year : August/2015

An Article on “India Vs Bharat : Digitally Divided”

Word Count : 1364

India and Bharat are the two names of the same nation, but there is a great divide between the two as both represent different parts of the name nation. There was always a big gap between the two and still it continues to be the same. India represents the rich and powerful who live in urban region and Bharat represents the poor who live in rural parts of the country. The name India, itself does not belong to India, it was given by invaders and was derived from the word Indus, and its original name was Bharat.

The major factor that divides

We should always remember that the soul of our country lies in Bharat and India is just another name given to it. From ancient times agriculture has been the main occupation of the people in our country and later due to technological advancements people started shifting to towns and cities and started following other occupations. Bharat represented the people working in fields and relate activities, but now also we consider Bharat representing only those and excluded the people who now reside in cities, and still we consider that Bharat represents only farms and villages. Since, villagers don’t have access to education (specially English language and Computer literacy) and the city residents have, so they carry the name India as this name was given to us by English people. Since the gap has always increased people have also started considering themselves as part of different country and culture virtually. Both carry completely different thought processes. People who consider themselves as a part of Bharat think that their counterpart have no values, they follow western culture and have completely forgotten their own culture. But here we should understand that we if we need to grow as nation we should reduce the degree of divide or even abolish it. It

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