On Tuesday, Haryana government decided to change the name of Gurgaon and renamed it as ‘Gurugram’. Mewat has also been renamed and its new name is ‘Nuh’. Wait a minute, did they just show off their genius brains by changing synonym: from ‘gaon’ to ‘gram’. Lol yes! This corporate hub in the outskirts of Haryana is now Gurugram as people of the area were demanding so.
The official spokesperson said that Gurgaon derived its name from legends after the great saint and tutor of Pandavas Guru Dronacharya. The village (which is now Gurgaon, Oops Gurugram) was given to Dronacharya by Pandavas as Guru Dakshina. The region has been center of learning and was known as Gurugram only but the time has distorted its original name Gurugram to Gurgaon. But now it is again renamed according to folklores of ancient times.
The renaming, however came with a lot of criticism as the corporate hub has already registered its name as Gurgaon on global front, this namkaran may take time for the world to re-accept the same. Well in India anything happens and Twitterites can’t keep calm, they just showed their sense of humor (as usual) in this matter.
Gurgaon’s name has been changed to Gurugram?!
What the heck man. Stole my idea of an Instagram like app where babajis could upload selfies.
— Akshar (@AksharPathak) April 12, 2016
Property prices in #Gurgaon drop by 50% after the name change to #Gurugram
— Sigma Upadhyay (@Sigmaupadhyay) April 13, 2016
Good news for ladies. Now they can step out after 8 pm in Gurgaon. (Because it doesn’t exist.)
— वरुण (@varungrover) April 12, 2016
Just heard that Gurgaon has been renamed to ‘Don’t Come Here’.
— Ashish Shakya (@stupidusmaximus) April 12, 2016
Gurgaon has been renamed Gurugram. Who are they kidding, for my grandpa it will always remain Gurgaanvaa!! (गुड़गाँवा)
— Ayushmann Khurrana (@ayushmannk) April 12, 2016
Gurgaon is now Gurugram? Congrats to all contract suppliers of stationery to Haryana Government…
— Kerala Paneer Forum (@sidin) April 12, 2016
Gurgaon is renamed ‘Gurugram’ by the State government. Congratulations to all the stand up comics.A lot of potential jokes here.Go get them!
— Navjot Gulati (@Navjotalive) April 12, 2016
What do IT guys who lived in Gurgaon call themselves? Programmer, Gurugrammer. #Gurugram
— Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) April 12, 2016
Best Message I read today: I woke up today in #Gurgaon, now going to sleep in #Gurugram. 😂
— Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul) April 12, 2016
After #Gurugram I vote to change the name of the country to IIN-DIA.
— Sahil Shah (@SahilBulla) April 12, 2016
This is Indian way of spending summers. Getting bored? Lets change the maps of our country! Change gurgaon to #Gurugram.
So cool. Nuh?— Shravan Singh (@shravannsinghh) April 12, 2016
