cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/43848231
States worry that the imposition of Hindi, the main language of northern India, would wipe out their cultural heritage.
Late last month, the government of Maharashtra, a state in western India governed by Mr. Modi’s party, was forced to retract a policy requiring that Hindi be taught in elementary schools. Opposition politicians, residents and others had called the policy an affront to Marathi, the region’s native language.
In Tamil Nadu, a southern Indian state with a history of rioting over efforts to make Hindi mandatory, the chief minister has raged for months against an education policy pushed by the Modi government, claiming that it is trying to force students to learn the language. Tamil Nadu sued the central government in May after it said that it would withhold education funds until the state implemented the policy.
Are you sure they are shouting “No” and not “नहीं” ?
In all seriousness, would there be any reason that would make this news significant, aka newsworthy?
I am asking because without reading the article it seems like the only interested people would be Indians.
Am I wrong here?
Yes, you are wrong.
Source; I’m interested, not a citizen of India. Language and the role it plays in culture is just interesting to me.
Am I wrong here?
Yeah…
India is a huge multicultural area that is only unified because the Brits did it…
The majority religion/language/culture is led by Modi who is a full on fascist trying to “erase” everyone who is different. And his actions often meet the definition of genocide.
It’s not as bad as Gaza right now. But lots of people care.
It’s not just a multicultural area, it’s as if they made the African continent two states, drawing the border randomly for one of them to be majority Muslim (and consisting of two unconnected parts).
It’s a whole world with a few language families of completely different cultures, inside which there are languages as big as German not mutually intelligible with their related languages near them.
There’s no such ethnicity as “Indian”.
BTW, about religion - there is an ethnic and religious group in India, their Church is Apostolic Christian, Miaphysite, and it’s in communion with Coptic and Armenian churches, and it has way more members than there are Armenian Christians in the world. Yet when listing Miaphysite churches, it’s usually not even remembered.
I mean, they use English as the main international language inside India, the fact that there’s no native language fitting the role of lingua franca more talks for itself. It’s not about policy, it’s about the fact that Hindi or Urdu are nothing for Dravidic regions. Not even oppression, just WTF and why should they use it.
I was under the impression that this community is for news from around the world, not news that the entire world is affected by.
I am asking because without reading the article it seems like the only interested people would be Indians.
Not wrong
Same kind of ridiculous nationalism and racism trump advocates for and tries to enforce through law. My dad, whose heritage hasnt lived in india in multiple generations, and has little connection to the religion or language, still supports that kind of bullshit and would rather people die so his religion and language come out on top. Like when india interferes with power and internet in Kashmir and hospitals are desperately trying to keep patients alive, that is a worthy sacrifice to him
It’s not surprising that Modi is doing this in the same year that Trump issued an executive order making English the official language of America.
It’s like they’re competing for the Fascist of the Year award.
It’s not just the two of them, let’s be honest.
I hate it when Europeans bitch and moan about how much American news they get. I’d be a hypocrite to whine about the one piece of news I get from the most populous country in the world, which is actually kinda similar to something Trump would do.
