The idea that Hindi is spoken by a majority of Indians is a claim that has to be ferociously contested. Only 26 per cent of the Indian population selected Hindi as their mother tongue.
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Political posturing in the Karnataka hijab row is now hardening into an ideological stand-off
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An open letter to Young India, callous and comfy in its cocoon
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Global corporate love and its spawn, today’s sex surveys, just mimic our Kamasutra-vintage caste structures
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In a house of slamming doors and broken dreams, there are no kisses. Only the confidence of silent curtains.
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Why kill over a people’s dietary preference for beef?
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Would our culture saviours revive the attire of the Chola bronzes?
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Half-hearted gestures by politicians and foreign policy diplomats for Eelam Tamils, the watery UN resolution included, serves them ill
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The PMK’s cult of anti-Dalit hatred led to Ilavarasan’s death. And the world looks on with aloofness.
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This cultural sanction of rape must stop, the state has to speak
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