the name game

text of the letter sent to the press:

The proposed merger of "AIR-INDIA" and "INDIAN" is a good augury keeping in mind the kind of competition that is emerging in the sector.

Now, while there has been a move to ban the inclusion of the names of national figures like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, etc, apart from words like Indian, Bharat, etc, in the names for institutions/ organisations, there is no reason why this logic should not extend to public sector undertakings also, particularly since there is no longer any guarantee that they are going to retain their public sector character forever. Converting Indian Airlines to just 'INDIAN' was bad enough. Let not such practices continue any longer.