Shashi Tharoor on Cabinet approving plan to rename Kerala: ‘What happens to terms Keralite, Keralan’

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The Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved Keral government’s proposal to change the name of state to Keralam, prompting a quick reaction from Shashi Tharoor, 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 living in the southern state.