Just Like That | India is a linguistic and cultural treasure trove, a thousand tongues bind us
1 year, 3 months ago

Just Like That | India is a linguistic and cultural treasure trove, a thousand tongues bind us

Hindustan Times  

India has the second largest number of languages in the world: 740. However, after 15 years, with the continuing opposition of non-Hindi speaking states, the Official Languages Act of 1963 allowed English to continue indefinitely until legislation to the contrary. Some people consider Urdu to be the language of Muslims, and only a pure Hindi devoid of Urdu words is representative of our ‘national’ culture. Moreover, in my view, English, while valuable as a communication tool, can never really become the language of our culture, for the simple reason that languages are much more than mediums of communication. For a country which is arguably the world’s biggest treasure trove of languages, badly spoken English can hardly become the lingua franca of our country.

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Never opposed Hindi as a language but only opposed making it compulsory: Pawan Kalyan
1 week, 6 days ago

Never opposed Hindi as a language but only opposed making it compulsory: Pawan Kalyan

The Hindu  

Jana Sena Party president and Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister K. Pawan Kalyan said in a post on X on Saturday that imposing a language forcibly or opposing a language blindly doesn’t help in achieving the objective of national and cultural integration of Bharat. Mr. Pawan Kalyan claimed that he had never opposed Hindi as a language but only opposed …

India’s war over words
2 weeks, 1 day ago

India’s war over words

Live Mint  

If you think language is an emotive issue in America, wait until you see India. Since last month, the government of Tamil Nadu, population 77 million, has been in a war of words with New Delhi over the state’s refusal to implement a national education policy that mandates that children must learn three languages, two of which must be native …

Over 90% in Hindi-belt states speak only one language, rest of India is more bilingual: Data
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Over 90% in Hindi-belt states speak only one language, rest of India is more bilingual: Data

The Hindu  

The latest exchanges between Tamil Nadu and the Centre over Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan funds have reignited the long-standing language debate. Chart 3 shows the share of English speakers among native language speakers in 1991 and 2011. Chart 3 | The chart shows the share of English speakers among native language speakers A similar trend of declining or stagnating English proficiency …

MK Stalin says Hindi erased 25 regional languages, many gasping for survival
1 month ago

MK Stalin says Hindi erased 25 regional languages, many gasping for survival

India Today  

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin questioned the impact of Hindi on other Indian languages, listing several regional tongues that he claimed were “gasping for survival.” He voiced strong opposition to Centre’s ‘Hindi imposition’ through National Education Policy in a post on X. “My dear sisters and brothers from other states, Ever wondered how many Indian languages Hindi has swallowed? …

International Mother Language Day
1 month, 1 week ago

International Mother Language Day

The Hindu  

There is a common language that everyone speaks, and then there is your own language — the one that feels like home. Observed on February 21, International Mother Language Day reminds us of the need to preserve linguistic diversity and protect fading languages. India’s linguistic richness: From ancient roots to fading voices Ancient languages: Tamil, one of the oldest surviving …

ThinkEdu Conclave 2025: Learning 3 languages essential in today’s times, says RSS Joint Gen Secy
2 months ago

ThinkEdu Conclave 2025: Learning 3 languages essential in today’s times, says RSS Joint Gen Secy

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: Though the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has no official stance on a two-language or three-language policy, it is of the view that modern times necessitate learning at least three languages: one’s mother tongue, a regional language, and a career language, said Mukunda CR, RSS Joint General Secretary here on Monday. In conversation with Ravi Shankar, Consulting Editor of The Sunday …

Book Review| “India: A Linguistic Civilization” Highlights Challenges Facing Indian Languages and Decline in Linguistic Diversity
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Book Review| “India: A Linguistic Civilization” Highlights Challenges Facing Indian Languages and Decline in Linguistic Diversity

The Hindu  

Published : Jan 14, 2025 22:13 IST - 7 MINS READ There is no public intellectual in India quite like G.N. In contrast with the recent census figures, Devy in his People’s Survey of India records 780 languages, including those that are spoken by as few as five people. But Devy does identify, in another longlist, languages that successive censuses …

Hindi is not national language but an official one: R Ashwin
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Hindi is not national language but an official one: R Ashwin

India Today  

Star cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin, speaking at a private college event, made headlines with his comments on both his career and the status of Hindi in India. Addressing the students during a graduation ceremony of the college, Ashwin said that Hindi is not the national language of India. "I thought I should say this: Hindi is not our national language; it …

Shah: Hindi has an unbreakable bond with every Indian language
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Shah: Hindi has an unbreakable bond with every Indian language

Hindustan Times  

Hindi shares an “unbreakable bond” with local languages and there can never be a competition between Indian languages, Union home minister Amit Shah said on Saturday as he extended greetings for Hindi Diwas. Emphasising the connection between Hindi and all Indian languages, Shah said the country’s progress is intertwined with the enrichment of these languages. The official language Hindi has …

Hindi has unbreakable relationship with every Indian language, says Amit Shah
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Hindi has unbreakable relationship with every Indian language, says Amit Shah

The Hindu  

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said there is no competition between the official language Hindi and other Indian languages rather they are friends and complement each other. The Home Minister said under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a lot of work has been done to strengthen Hindi and local languages in the last 10 years. Mr. …

Hindi should be generally accepted as the language of work with consensus: Shah
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Hindi should be generally accepted as the language of work with consensus: Shah

The Hindu  

Union Home Minister Amit Shah was unanimously re-elected the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Official Language on Monday, the Ministry of Home Affairs said. “We should take care that the speakers of any local language do not have an inferiority complex and that Hindi is generally accepted as the language of work with consensus and agreement,” he said. New …

Centre imposing Hindi over regional languages: TMC MP
1 year, 1 month ago

Centre imposing Hindi over regional languages: TMC MP

Hindustan Times  

Raising the issue during the Zero Hour, Gokhale demanded that English must be used for government business. Gokhale said the government has recently passed three new criminal laws in Parliament and these laws have been given very complicated Hindi names. Gokhale said, "Our Constitution chose to retain English as an official language along with Hindi". "However, the attempts by the …

Daily Quiz | On Hindi Diwas
1 year, 6 months ago

Daily Quiz | On Hindi Diwas

The Hindu  

Daily Quiz | On Hindi Diwas Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit YOUR SCORE 0 /6 RETAKE THE QUIZ 1 / 6 | What is the script in which modern Hindi is written? YES NO Answer : Home Minister SHOW ANSWER 3 / 6 | This language was called Deodhai. YES NO Answer : Bodo SHOW ANSWER …

Amit Shah's remark on Hindi slammed by TN political parties
1 year, 7 months ago

Amit Shah's remark on Hindi slammed by TN political parties

Deccan Chronicle  

CHENNAI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah's statement that Hindi must be finally accepted by all States without opposition was slammed by leaders of several political parties in Tamil Nadu starting from Chief Minister M K Stalin, who told Shah that it would be an unwise move to ignite the embers of the ‘1965 Anti-Hindi Agitations,’ to Dr S Ramadoss, founder …

Hindi is not in competition with local languages: Amit Shah
1 year, 7 months ago

Hindi is not in competition with local languages: Amit Shah

The Hindu  

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Friday, August 4, 2023 that Hindi must be finally accepted without opposition, even if the pace of acceptance is slow. Mr. Shah said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has encouraged the promotion of “Panch Pran”, which includes respect for heritage and erasing the signs of colonialism. Respect local languages He said that respect for …

How 1,500 languages disappeared from Census data in ten years
1 year, 8 months ago

How 1,500 languages disappeared from Census data in ten years

The Hindu  

When the 1961 census of India was completed, data showed that 1,652 mother tongues were spoken in India. The three-part lecture by Mr. Devy, who is the recipient of the second Obaid Siddiqi Chair in the History and Culture of Science at the Archives at NCBS, looked at ‘India as a linguistic civilization.’ “Multilingualism and language diversity started receding from …

Data | Among languages mostly confined to a State, Tamil leads with 1.5 lakh Wikipedia articles
1 year, 9 months ago

Data | Among languages mostly confined to a State, Tamil leads with 1.5 lakh Wikipedia articles

The Hindu  

In India, if we consider non-English language Wikipedia, the highest number of articles are available in Urdu, Hindi and Tamil. Among languages which are mostly confined to a State, Tamil leads by a wide margin, with 1.6 times more articles than the second-best, Marathi, followed by Malayalam and Telugu. Chart 2 | The chart lists the 23 languages spoken in …

INDIA, THIS SIDE | Languages not liked by Hindutva ideology suffer existential crisis
1 year, 9 months ago

INDIA, THIS SIDE | Languages not liked by Hindutva ideology suffer existential crisis

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 15, 2023 11:00 IST - 7 MINS READ One’s mother tongue is closest to any person as is one’s mother. Highlights The decade-wise proportion of various language speakers to India’s total population indicate that in 1961 the Bangla speakers were 8.17 per cent of the total population, half a century later, their proportion had decreased to 8.03 …

INDIA, THIS SIDE | Our endangered tongues: The rising threat to Indian languages
2 years ago

INDIA, THIS SIDE | Our endangered tongues: The rising threat to Indian languages

The Hindu  

Published : Mar 23, 2023 10:35 IST - 7 MINS READ Over the last three decades, scientists have come up with mathematical models to predict the life of languages. Obviously, the nations and communities that have learnt to live within a single language, whose economic well-being is not dependent on knowing languages other than their own, whose knowledge systems are …

Sadhguru Writes: India A Kaleidoscope. Will Be Wonderful If All Can Speak 5 Languages
2 years ago

Sadhguru Writes: India A Kaleidoscope. Will Be Wonderful If All Can Speak 5 Languages

ABP News  

Sadhguru: Recently, I was talking to someone important in the US State Department. India’s Wealth of Languages Language is one of the most complex things that we do in our neurological system. There is a Kannada saying which translates to, “When two people fight, the third person will benefit.” We have absolutely complex and fantastic languages in the country, but …

Sanskrit Along With Hindi Be Given Status of National Language, Says BJP MP
2 years, 3 months ago

Sanskrit Along With Hindi Be Given Status of National Language, Says BJP MP

News 18  

A BJP MP on Monday called for giving both Sanskrit and Hindi the status of the national language. Raising the issue in Lok Sabha, BJP MP from Uttar Pradesh's Hamirpur Pushpendra Singh Chandel said at present, there is no national language in India, however, in Article 343 of the Constitution, it has been laid down that the official language of …

Phasing Out English from Education System to Shun Colonial Mindset an Oversimplified Solution to Complex Issue
2 years, 4 months ago

Phasing Out English from Education System to Shun Colonial Mindset an Oversimplified Solution to Complex Issue

News 18  

India’s unity has never been a necessity, but has been its uniqueness” – This is precisely what Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on the occasion of National Unity Day — and the 147th birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. As PM Modi chose to celebrate India’s ‘ekta’ in Gujarat’s Ekta Nagar, he also said campaigns are being run to make …

Sanjaya Baru | The politics of language: India’s unity in diversity
2 years, 5 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | The politics of language: India’s unity in diversity

Deccan Chronicle  

No other institution has played a bigger role in the popularisation of Hindi across the country than the much-maligned Bollywood cinema. In response to the recent Hindi enthusiasm emanating out of New Delhi, various political leaders across the non-Hindi regions have drawn attention to the fact that Hindi is in fact not the mother tongue of a large majority of …

Hindi Diwas 2022: Amid New Row by HDK, News18 Reads into Politics Over World's 3rd Most Spoken Language
2 years, 6 months ago

Hindi Diwas 2022: Amid New Row by HDK, News18 Reads into Politics Over World's 3rd Most Spoken Language

News 18  

The controversy over Hindi imposition is back in news in Karnataka as JDS leader and former CM HD Kumaraswamy after writting a letter to Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday and urging his government not to celebrate ‘Hindi Diwas’ by utilising the taxpayers’ money has now called for protest against the Hindi Diwas. Ajay Devgn Vs Kiccha Sudeep The …

75 years of Independence | Misreading the language spectrum
2 years, 7 months ago

75 years of Independence | Misreading the language spectrum

The Hindu  

While deciding on the language question in India, the Constituent Assembly had clearly recognised that the unity of India could get adversely affected if the language policy got slanted towards the imposition of any single language over others. On Hindi and Sanskrit The 2011 Census — which is still the latest — had stated a total of 19,569 ‘raw returns’ …

Over 80% of staff of seven offices under MHA have working knowledge of Hindi: Report
2 years, 10 months ago

Over 80% of staff of seven offices under MHA have working knowledge of Hindi: Report

Firstpost  

This comes after Home Minister Amit Shah said on 7 April that it was time to make the official language Hindi an important part of the unity of the country New Delhi: More than 80 per cent of the staff of seven offices under the Union Home Ministry have attained the working knowledge of official language Hindi. “In pursuance of …

Recognising territorial links to languages essential for Indian federalism
2 years, 10 months ago

Recognising territorial links to languages essential for Indian federalism

The Hindu  

Historically, the symbiotic relationship of a language with the idea of a nation has been marked by much contestation across the world since the nineteenth century. At the 37th meeting of the Parliamentary Official Language Committee held on April 8, 2022, Home Minister Amit Shah commented that in all the north-eastern States Hindi would be made compulsory until Class 10. …

Centre's aggressive push for Hindi as North-East India's 'link language' threatens to expose ethnic fault lines
2 years, 10 months ago

Centre's aggressive push for Hindi as North-East India's 'link language' threatens to expose ethnic fault lines

The Hindu  

North-eastern India is a linguistic mosaic, with over 400 different languages spoken in the region. Dr Banani Chakravarty said a section of the Assamese elite, while asserting Assamese linguistic aspiration, encouraged the “otherisation” of Tibeto-Burman language speakers. “A section of the Assamese power elite assumes that it is essential for Tibeto-Burman language speakers and speakers of ‘minor languages’ to know …

Lingua franca?: Controversy over Hindi puts focus on linguistic plurality
2 years, 10 months ago

Lingua franca?: Controversy over Hindi puts focus on linguistic plurality

The Hindu  

Home Minister Amit Shah’s comments in early April on the need to promote Hindi as a lingua franca among States, which was followed by an acrimonious Twitter exchange between two filmstars on communicating in Hindi, once again catapulted the language issue into the national imagination. Hindi speakers who spoke it as the first language accounted for 39.29 per cent of …

Linguistic imperialism: BJP pronouncements on promoting Hindi spark outrage
2 years, 10 months ago

Linguistic imperialism: BJP pronouncements on promoting Hindi spark outrage

The Hindu  

On April 7, while presiding over the 37 th meeting of the Parliamentary Official Language Committee, which involved the ratifying of the eleventh volume of the committee’s report, Home Minister Amit Shah made three broad points. Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi had strongly criticised the move, stating: “Giving priority to Hindi will be construed as a first step …

Let's not divide people further: Sonu Nigam on 'Hindi national language' row
2 years, 10 months ago

Let's not divide people further: Sonu Nigam on 'Hindi national language' row

Firstpost  

‘We aware that Tamil is the world’s oldest language? But people say Tamil is the oldest language in the entire world,’ the singer said New Delhi: Singer Sonu Nigam says Hindi is not the country’s national language and attempts to impose it on non-Hindi speaking citizens will only create a rift within. The singer’s comments come days after Bollywood actor …

The debate on the national language
2 years, 10 months ago

The debate on the national language

The Hindu  

The story so far: Remarks by a Hindi actor to the effect that Hindi is the national language of India sparked a controversy recently over the status of the language under the Constitution. The official language issue was hotly debated in the Constituent Assembly, and the provisions relating to it were formulated only after a compromise that English shall continue …

Sonu Nigam on 'Hindi national language' debate: Let's not divide people further in the country
2 years, 10 months ago

Sonu Nigam on 'Hindi national language' debate: Let's not divide people further in the country

India TV News  

Singer Sonu Nigam says Hindi is not our country's national language and the attempts to impose it on non-Hindi speaking citizens will only create a rift within. The singer's comments come days after Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn and Kannada actor Kichcha Sudeep engaged in a Twitter spat over Hindi being a national language. Devgn had tweeted, "Hindi was, is, and …

DC EDIT | India has many languages
2 years, 10 months ago

DC EDIT | India has many languages

Deccan Chronicle  

The exchange between a Kannada and a Hindi film star on the popularity of their language was just another in a series of discussions on national languages that tend to go nowhere because of the complexity and numbers of India. It appears the reach of regional films in today’s high-tech environment is getting longer adding weight to the argument that …

‘Hindi Will Never be Our National Language’: Siddaramaiah Responds to Ajay Devgn, Says ‘Proud to be a Kannadiga’
2 years, 11 months ago

‘Hindi Will Never be Our National Language’: Siddaramaiah Responds to Ajay Devgn, Says ‘Proud to be a Kannadiga’

News 18  

Former chief minister of Karnataka and Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Wednesday asserted that each Indian language “has its own rich history for its people to be proud of” and that it is the “duty of every Indian to respect linguistic diversity”. The veteran Congress leader’s statements on Wednesday came in response to Bollywood star Ajay Devgn’s Twitter exchange with Kannada …

Ajay Devgn, Kichcha Sudeep engage in Twitter debate over 'Hindi no more national language' comment
2 years, 11 months ago

Ajay Devgn, Kichcha Sudeep engage in Twitter debate over 'Hindi no more national language' comment

Firstpost  

“Hindi is no more our national language,” Kannada star Sudeep said at a film launch event last week when he was asked how he viewed the record-breaking pan-India success of the film “KGF: Chapter 2” Mumbai: If Hindi is not the national language of India, why are movies made in different languages and eventually dubbed, Bollywood star Ajay Devgn said …

Hindi Imposition Debate: Not Everyone’s Speaking the Same Language Here - News18
2 years, 11 months ago

Hindi Imposition Debate: Not Everyone’s Speaking the Same Language Here - News18

News 18  

“I can’t learn Hindi for your convenience; learn Tamil if you want!” Tamil superstar Thalapathy Vijay’s dialogue in his latest movie, Beast, has set the tone once again for the already raging “Hindi imposition” controversy in the country. All this furore on speaking Hindi and its imposition began after Union Home minister Amit Shah’s comment that Hindi should be accepted …

The real script behind the call for a Hindi-India
2 years, 11 months ago

The real script behind the call for a Hindi-India

The Hindu  

Some 2,000 years ago, Tholkappiyar, the fabled author of Tolkappiyam, said that poetic words can be distributed in four types: Iyarcol, Thirisol, Thisaiccol and Vadasol. The Home Ministry’s scope extends to safeguarding relations of the States with the ‘union’, protecting the linguistic rights of language minorities and the promotion of Hindi. And, if there is such a growth, does it …

Is one language enough?
4 years, 5 months ago

Is one language enough?

The Hindu  

While negotiating independence from Dutch colonial rule, Indonesian nationalists decided that a reformed version of Malay would become the official language. Debates in the Constituent Assembly In contrast, the issue of adopting a national language could not be resolved when the Constituent Assembly began drafting India’s Constitution. On the one side were members from the Hindi-speaking provinces who moved a …

CISF Officer Asked If I’m Indian For Not Knowing Hindi: Kanimozhi
4 years, 7 months ago

CISF Officer Asked If I’m Indian For Not Knowing Hindi: Kanimozhi

The Quint  

Critics however point out that this is not an issue with an individual officer from a central force, but the larger belief being pushed in India that Hindi is the national language, or that Hindi is more important than other Indian languages. Currently, there are 22 official languages recognised in the eighth schedule of the Indian Constitution, and it includes …

The distinct cry of an imperilled frontier
5 years, 3 months ago

The distinct cry of an imperilled frontier

The Hindu  

The outburst against the Citizenship Amendment Bill, or CAB, in the Northeast has left many outside the region confounded. ‘Population anxiety’ The truth is, going by UNESCO’s definition of endangered languages, all of the 200 and more languages spoken in the Northeast, with the exception of Assamese and Bengali, are in the vulnerable category. Even in the case of Assamese, …

Hindi push assault on diversity, India’s spirit
5 years, 6 months ago

Hindi push assault on diversity, India’s spirit

Deccan Chronicle  

On Hindi Divas, when Union home minister and BJP president Amit Shah gave an impassioned speech about the “need of our country to have one language, so that foreign languages don’t find a place”, one wonders why he use ‘languages’ in plural! Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the founder of the Jan Sangh, which was the BJP’s predecessor, favoured Hindi but …

India's many languages are not her weakness, says Rahul Gandhi days after Amit Shah pitches for Hindi as unifying language
5 years, 6 months ago

India's many languages are not her weakness, says Rahul Gandhi days after Amit Shah pitches for Hindi as unifying language

Firstpost  

Days after Home Minister Amit Shah pitched for Hindi as a common language for the country, Rahul Gandhi on Monday said India’s many languages are not its weakness. New Delhi: Days after Home Minister Amit Shah pitched for Hindi as a common language for the country, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said India’s many languages are not its weakness. …

Won’t compromise on Kannada: Yediyurappa
5 years, 6 months ago

Won’t compromise on Kannada: Yediyurappa

Live Mint  

Karnataka chief minister B.S.Yediyurappa, on Monday, jumped into the ‘One Nation, One Language’ debate, countering the stand taken by the Bharatiya Janata Party national leadership by stating that Kannada will remain the principal language in the state. Watch: Facing fire, BJP leaders downplay Amit Shah’s one nation, one language push Yediyurappa’s tweet sets the stage for the first clash with …

BJP rules out 'imposing' Hindi in Karnataka amid protests
5 years, 6 months ago

BJP rules out 'imposing' Hindi in Karnataka amid protests

India TV News  

Accusing the Congress of politicising the language issue, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party ruled out imposing Hindi in Karnataka, an official said on Monday. Protesting against Union Home Minister Amit Shah's call on Saturday to have Hindi as the common or national language, the opposition Congress and the regional Janata Dal-Secular leaders and cadres staged demonstrations during the weekend in …

Hindi 'imposition' debate: Schools can play key role in promoting integration through 3-language formula
5 years, 6 months ago

Hindi 'imposition' debate: Schools can play key role in promoting integration through 3-language formula

Firstpost  

The language debate has again assumed significance in the light of remarks made by Home Minister Amit Shah. The constitutional position on the issue is straightforward and is found in Article 343, which states that the official language of the Union should be Hindi in the Devanagari script, along with English. States ideally should have had sole authority in determining …

‘Respect all languages, cultures equally’: Mamata Banerjee responds to Amit Shah's appeal for Hindi as national language
5 years, 6 months ago

‘Respect all languages, cultures equally’: Mamata Banerjee responds to Amit Shah's appeal for Hindi as national language

Firstpost  

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said people should respect all languages and cultures equally but not at the cost of their mother tongues Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said people should respect all languages and cultures equally but not at the cost of their mother tongues. Her statement came after Home Minister Amit …

Amit Shah, speaking on Hindi Diwas, stresses on need for unifying language to mark India's identity
5 years, 6 months ago

Amit Shah, speaking on Hindi Diwas, stresses on need for unifying language to mark India's identity

Firstpost  

Amit Shah on Saturday stressed on the need to have a unifying language that becomes a mark of India’s identity in the world New Delhi: On the occasion of Hindi Diwas, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday stressed on the need to have a unifying language that becomes a mark of India’s identity in the world and keeps “foreign …

On Hindi Diwas, Amit Shah pitches for ‘one nation, one language’
5 years, 6 months ago

On Hindi Diwas, Amit Shah pitches for ‘one nation, one language’

The Hindu  

Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday that the country should come together to promote Hindi. The Home Minister also said during the freedom struggle, the Congress conventions used to take place in different parts of the country and such initiatives empowered Hindi in those areas. PTI adds: Three-language formula should not be tinkered with: Congress Hours after Union minister …

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