Kerala is now Keralam, but Shashi Tharoor has a question: What happens to ‘Keralite’, ‘Keralan’?
The Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal to change the name of Kerala to Keralam, prompting a witty reaction from Shashi Tharoor, the Member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram, who quipped: “What happens to terms Keralite, Keralan?” Senior Congress leader Tharoor responded to the change with a pun, wondering what Anglophones would now call people…