[lbo-talk] Triple Your Lizard

[Chris Doss]

Is this mostly just out of linguistic nationalism, or do non-Hindi-speakers have a real or perceived history of oppression (using the word broadly so that it just means "bad stuff") from Hindi-speakers?

--- On Wed, 7/22/09, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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