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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Meena is a poet, writer, feminist and a Dalit activist.
Political posturing in the Karnataka hijab row is now hardening into an ideological stand-off
This cultural sanction of rape must stop, the state has to speak
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