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Prachi Gupta
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Hindi Day: The many, varying ideas of India’s ‘national’ language
Even supporters of Hindi lacked consensus about the idea of the language and the role it was to play as the ‘national’ language.
Prachi Gupta
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What today’s Hindi supremacists could learn from a ‘Hinglish’ poem by ‘the father of modern Hindi’
In the late 19th century, Bharatendu Harishchandra wrote poems that combined languages and scripts, undermining the majoritarian impulses now on display.
Prachi Gupta