{"id":235412,"date":"2024-02-24T01:29:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=235412"},"modified":"2024-02-24T01:29:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:59:24","slug":"dont-impose-hindi-on-non-hindi-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/02\/24\/dont-impose-hindi-on-non-hindi-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t impose Hindi on non-Hindi speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is to remind the Reserve Bank of India that, as per the 2011 language census, West Bengal, like most southern and northeastern states, is not a Hindi-speaking state and has adopted English as its secondary language, and I belong to this group of people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Reserve Bank of India has surprisingly been sending a number of important SMSes to me in Hindi only. I could only gather that those SMSes were about how to save ourselves from online fraud. But naturally, I failed to understand valuable instructions in them. If the RBI has to use Hindi, it should stick to India&#8217;s three-language policy. The disastrous path that Pakistan followed to impose the language of its western part on East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) should not be pursued anywhere. It is a matter of concern that one language dies every 14 days as powerful groups impose their languages on speakers of less powerful groups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Centre should treat all 22 Indian languages of the 8th Schedule of the Constitution of India equally and refrain from imposing Hindi on non-Hindi speakers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sujit De,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Kolkata<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor, This is to remind the Reserve Bank of India that, as per the 2011 language census, West Bengal, like most southern and northeastern states, is not a Hindi-speaking state and has adopted English as its secondary language, and I belong to this group of people. The Reserve Bank of India has surprisingly been sending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-235412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}