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The Great Language Divide

Linguistic imperialism and absence of mother tongues in Hindi-English debate

Ajit Mohanty
30 March 2025 12:50 AM GMT

The irony of the Hindi-English debate is that practices involving these are prejudicial to the interests of all other Indian languages. Second of a two-part series

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