[lbo-talk] Triple Your Lizard

[ravi]

On Jul 22, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Chris Doss wrote:
> I mentioned India specifically because it seems to be as regionally  
> heterogeneous as it is possible to be and still be the same country  
> (and not be the Ottoman Empire). It's like the anti-US. :)
>

In the sense in which you were speaking of it, I think that's quite  
true.


> Even Hindi is spoken by less than half the population.

Probably half the population or more, if you count "passable".


> BTW is use of English as an official language still controversial  
> among Hindi-speakers?

I am not sure that was as big an issue as the use of Hindi as the  
national language is/was to non-Hindi speakers. Back in Tamil Nadu  
central government buildings were set on fire (hard to do with  
concrete buildings, but still!) when Hindi signboards were added to  
them.

	--ravi