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That Great Language Debate

Posted by: descorpio on: August 6, 2008

‘Tujhe apna rashtra baasha nahin aatha ?! Tch Tch…’ A remark I often encountered in my four years at Manipal. A Malayali, born in Madras, brought up in Bangalore, English was always my first language. Hindi had no special significance to me. In fact, I regarded it with absolute contempt. I would have preferred [...]