I shall be starting a series of posts with the above-mentioned subtitles giving details of lesser known comedic but sometimes deadly serious events happening that are related to India and Canada.
These events could be as confusing as the countries' names themselves. For example Bharat is said to have been derived from the Sanskrit language and thought to have been referring to India though India as a country never existed when that word was coined. The name was tried to be foisted upon an independent India by the Hindi North but was stoutly resisted and the name India coined by the British proved to be more durable. Bharat is sometimes used with sarcasm as when something happens there that would never happen elsewhere. Kanata for modern day Canada has equally confusing antecedents. Originally from the Mohawk Indian for "settlement" it later turned out out to be an Iroquan Indian word meaning the same thing, although the two are entirely different languages with few common words. The White Man turned out to be another amusing addition to this mixture, changing words when he saw fit (Kanata to Canada) and leaving them alone when he was too busy cheating the Indians (Mississauga of the Mississauga Indians remains unchanged). Roland.
