An octogenarian man burned himself to death in southern India in protest at what he called New Delhi’s attempts to impose nationwide usage of Hindi, a language mostly spoken in the north, police said. | AFP
Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken of a “slave mentality” around the use of English, and promoted the use of Indian languages.
Most southern Indian languages are Dravidian, a completely different language family to the Indo-European group which includes Hindi. He was holding a Tamil-language placard reading: “Modi government stop imposing Hindi. Why do we need to choose Hindi over our literature-rich Tamil… it will affect future of our youth.”“He wrote the banner against central government,” he added.Thangavel carried out his protest on Saturday outside an office in Salem of Tamil Nadu’s ruling DMK party, of which he was a member.
“We must not lose another life,” reports quoted him as saying, condemning the central government’s “domineering attitude”.
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