WB govt replaces Ram with Rong in Bengali word for rainbow
The West Bengal government has replaced the traditional name for rainbow in Bengali 'Ramdhenu' (means Lord Ram’s bow) with 'Rongdhenu' (means bow of colours). Notably, Bangladesh had long replaced the word 'Ramdhenu' with 'Rongdhenu'. "There's no word in  Bengali dictionary as 'Rongdhenu'. It's Ramdhenu. A correct word shouldn't be replaced with a wrong one in our textbooks," a linguist said.\n