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Post by confuzzled dude Sat Jun 21, 2014 4:34 pm

And as soon as the new BJP government was sworn in, it ordered all bureaucrats and government officials to write their official correspondence in Hindi, take notes in Hindi and stick to Hindi on official ac-counts for social media like Twitter and Face-book. The home ministry announced cash prizes for those who do most of their official work in Hindi. Mean-while, the Prime Minis-ter himself was speaking to all foreign dignitaries in Hindi, through an interpreter. He even addressed the joint session of Bhutan’s Parlia-ment in Hindi.

India has always had a hierarchy of languages. The bigger languages often smother smaller ones, overshadowing their cultural heritage, not allowing them to grow, leading to loss of linguistic treasures. Besides, as bigger languages offer bigger options and better employment choices and lifestyles, people migra-te from smaller to bigger languages, which leads to the eventual withering away of smaller tongues. The 22 languages that are included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution are just the most prominent ones, with the most well-known cultural traditions. There are hundreds of other languages. In 1961, India had 1,652 recognised mother-tongues, which were narrowed down to about 1,100 well developed languages. Today, there are about 800. The rest are lost.

Besides, we need to let our politicians know that India does not have a single “national language”. This “national” versus “regional” divide is completely fake. India has 22 scheduled languages, among which Hindi happens to be also the official language for government work, along with English. Mr Modi should perhaps brief his colleagues on this. In 2010, in his state, the Gujarat high court had specified that India had no national language — “people have accepted Hindi as a national language... but there is nothing on record to suggest that any provision has been made or order issued declaring Hindi as a national language of the country.”

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/140621/commentary-columnists/article/hindi-imperialism

-> Our ignoramus north indian politicians will keep pretending as though India has a national language. Hope SIs kicked dumb & dumber Modi-baba's & Rajnath's ass hard enough so they won't resort to these stupid antics again.

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Post by Kayalvizhi Sat Jun 21, 2014 7:36 pm

It is interesting that top politicians of 2 states came out strongly against Modi's Hindi imperialism. One is ofcourse Tamil Nadu. Name the other state and the names of that politician.

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Post by Kayalvizhi Sat Jun 21, 2014 7:41 pm

One more state politician opposed. Total - 3

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Post by goodcitizn Sun Jun 22, 2014 12:12 am

In a way I applaud the BJP government for pushing Hindi. More than ever this move towards Hindi imposition has mobilized most, if not all, non Hindi-speaking regions to resist Hindi and promote their own regional language in addition to English. This is a welcome trend.

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