Kerala name change: MP John Brittas takes dig at Shashi Tharoor over Keralam remark, ‘Identity isn’t a spelling test’

Kerala MP John Brittas has taken a dig at Shashi Tharoor over the Congress leader’s comments about the state’s name change. Tharoor, also an MP from Kerala, earlier joked about Kerala being renamed as Keralam. On 24 February, the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, formally approved Kerala’s proposal to change its name….

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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…

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