The Enigma of Hindi
There is a vigorous opposition to Hindi in South India. It goes under the name, ’Imposition of Hindi’. On the other hand, it is an undoubted fact that more people…
Hindi
Do we have a National Language? Is Hindi the language of tomorrow’s politics?
Language Perhaps the most important factor that distinguishes humans from other forms of life, is language. Language is central to interactions within and between societies, and especially for governance. Language…
Why no Hindi dominance in Multi-lingual country
Recently Amit Shah, the home minister brought up the issue of Hindi to act as a link language among people speaking different languages in states. There was also a discussion…
Politics of language: Why Hindi surpassed Bengali
When the British ordered the exclusive use of the Nagari script in school in 1880 to meet a Hindu demand in the state of Bihar, the Muslims howled. The Hindi-Urdu…
Hindi Has Arrived!
Many writings about Hindi are 'breast beating' in the style of Bharatendu Harishchandra's 'Bharat Durdasha'. This article has a positive attitude towards Hindi Literature. The history of literary Hindi is…
Language Policy in India is meant to facilitate promotion and imposition of Hindi, and for narrow interests as in Kashmir now
Reactionary politics in India, and the Indian State itself, seek to promote Hindi and thwart development of other languages and nationalities, not only those of South India, but notably also…
‘Hinduisation’ of Jammu and Kashmir: The Language and Domicile Bills
Hindi along with Urdu, Kashmiri, Dogri and English, has been made official language of Jammu and Kashmir. A bill is recently passed in the parliament of India to add Dogri…
Hindi was devised by a Scottish linguist of The East India Company – it can never be India’s National Language
If the Anglophone Indians are derided as ‘Macaulay’s children’, then the Hindi speaking Indians can also be called ‘Gilchrist’s children’. My late maternal grandmother – who had studied philosophy…
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