Hindi

[Madhav Deshpande]

Tilak published the newspaper Kesari in Marathi, and Marhatta in English,
but nothing in Sanskrit.
                                                Madhav Deshpande

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Vidyasankar Sundaresan wrote:

> From: rohan.oberoi at CORNELL.EDU
>
> >- The Congress party, both before and after independence, had a strong
> >   (I personally would say dominant) Hindu right wing that can only be
> >   with difficulty distinguished from the Sangh (cf. B.G. Tilak).
>
> In case you didn't know, Tilak published one newspaper in
> Marathi, and another in Sanskrit. Are we talking about the
> Hindi language or the Hindu religion? The two are different
> things, you know.
>
> >   Indira Gandhi's well known Hindu mobilisation and minority
> >   demonisation campaigns are only one facet of this.
>
> So now Indira belonged to the Sangh Parivar too? She was not
> one of my favorite people, but please cut her some slack.
>
> Surely, India has to be the only democratic country on this
> earth where it is a crime for a politician like Indira to
> acknowledge the culture of the majority of its people.
>
> Vidyasankar
>
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