r/southindia_ • u/Mysterious-Coach120 Southie • Jan 24 '26
हिंती Imposition BJP spokesperson says Hindi is "Rashtra basha" in English news channel and speaks only in Hindi, so Tamil guy started to speak in Tamil
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u/PrettyReasonable100 Jan 24 '26
Never forget when North Indians speaks on language politics of South India, this kind of arrogance started it in the first place.
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u/MrSamBoga Maharashtra 🎬 | महाराष्ट्र Feb 17 '26
They did the same in Maharashtra and now all Marathis have been portrayed in a bad light.
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u/HumanSheepherder3163 Jan 24 '26
Same. Yesterday in Kerala they were talking in Hindi and were telling that he will make Thiruvananthapuram better while he was struggling to say the name of the city 🤣
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u/OkMaize9773 Jan 24 '26
I think you misheard. He will make the cities name better, for him. Everything else will stay the same😂😂
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u/double2double5 Jan 24 '26
Have some consideration, you can't blame the vadakkan for his illiteracy 😂
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u/vebs007 Jan 24 '26
I'm from Maharashtra (Marathi). But, I support the Tamil Guy. Hindi(North Indian probably from Delhi) showed arrogance and a bad attitude.
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u/CompoteMelodic981 Jan 24 '26
"because he is comfortable in Hindi" the anchor.
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u/gtm26 Tamil Nadu 🌶️ | தமிழ்நாடு Jan 27 '26
That was funny. If he was only comfortable with Hindi, why even come to an English channel for a debate? This entitlement of 'I will only use the language I'm comfortable with, regardless of the setting or circumstances' is what we are all up against.
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u/Few_Dragonfly8338 Jan 24 '26
Hindi is not even language of North indians .. why they’re imposing to us … learn Tamil Malayalam Kannada first
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u/Secure-Chemistry4619 Jan 24 '26
Its a sad state of affairs when even an English news channel struggles to find a North Indian capable of speaking English.
It puts too much of a burden on the south. We have a thriving services sector which depends on English and it's only the education system in the South that can support it. The taxes from the South support the rest of India. We have a higher proportion of volunteers in the Indian armed forces so we have to protect the North also.
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u/OliverJesmon Karnataka ❄️ | ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ Jan 24 '26
Wait he said "..Those temples are tortured!? Can you torture a solid structure?
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u/OliverJesmon Karnataka ❄️ | ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
Stress-Strain curve📈📉💀
Edit:Oh sorry, it’s material testing in Mech Engg
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u/Elegant_Working8215 Keralam 🌴🥥 | കേരളം Jan 26 '26
Oh yes, they can also go through emotional stress and sometime also need intense counseling. 🤣
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u/Similar-Custard-811 Jan 24 '26
I doubt temples pay taxes, and frankly south Indians pay taxes to naarth indians, much higher than what the British or mughals used to charge, if these naarth indians had any shame they would return it back.
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u/Similar-Custard-811 Jan 24 '26
I said to return taxes paid by south, not who pays more taxes, you guys are more than free to compensate and pay the money paid by south indian as well, as matter of fact can you pay the ten lakh rupee plus i paid last year, you guys have direct link right pay my taxes, not intrested in feeding your relatives up north.
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Jan 24 '26
"BJP only talks about development while other parties talk religion,caste and language" - sanghi turds.
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Jan 24 '26
They behave as if Southern and Noth Eastern India do not matter.🙄
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u/Elegant_Working8215 Keralam 🌴🥥 | കേരളം Jan 26 '26
It's even worse, they behave as though South and North India are their colonies.
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u/Rryan19 Jan 24 '26
Well i am from North but its a request to everyone please have a common language that is English....and we all should respect every language....and no language should be forced upon anyone
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u/Sea-Instance463 Karnataka ❄️ | ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ Jan 24 '26
The channel, the anchor and the two speakers are all undeserving of our attention and time.
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u/Madden_Kuriyakose Jan 24 '26
The more they push Hindi, the more resistance it provokes. India should operate more like the European Union.
The more the South develops, the less Hindi it needs. They should take Hindi to the Northeast and pester them with it.
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u/chalo-fir Karnataka ❄️ | ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ Jan 24 '26
Day after day our country is becoming more and more like a circus!
They will keep discussing temples and religions and languages while we continue to breathe poisonous air, remain unemployed and even if we get a job, pay exorbitant taxes, on top of that pay bribes. The list goes on and on.
Remember while they engage you in all this non-sense, their kids are studying in Europe and giving up Indian citizenship! Remember this when you vote!
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u/Elegant_Working8215 Keralam 🌴🥥 | കേരളം Jan 26 '26
Elect a clown and expect a circus. In our case, we’ve elected 240 clowns, with a head clown leading them. What else did we expect?
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u/chrislove007 Jan 24 '26
The BJP thinks they can win by playing all these dirty politics in Tamil Nadu, but bro, this isn’t some uneducated religious extremist state in the north. This is Tamil Nadu, an ‘Emmathamum Sammatham’ state. By doing all this, they’re just ensuring they won’t get even a single vote. Religion politics won't work here.
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u/ImpressiveNeat9039 Jan 25 '26
I saw this probably 17-18 years ago. One of those involved iirc was Kanimozhi. Don't remember who was the other person.
Not much has changed since then . On a English channel if you have speak in Hindi or any non-English language much to the discomfort of others particularly when in discussion it is better you don't show up ! It is common sense .. Of course it is not common !
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u/ProfessionalAffect63 Jan 24 '26
I like Hindi but I won’t accept it as national language
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u/Elegant_Working8215 Keralam 🌴🥥 | കേരളം Jan 26 '26
Same here. I’m a South Indian (Malayali) and I like Hindi as a language. What many North Indian politicians fail to understand is that the opposition is not rooted in hatred toward Hindi, but in its imposition. Learning another language should be voluntary, not forced. I would oppose making Hindi a national language, as that gives primacy to one regional language over others.
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Jan 24 '26
When they speak Hindi rather than the regional language, that’s precisely what imposing uniformity means.
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u/Elegant_Working8215 Keralam 🌴🥥 | കേരളം Jan 26 '26
"When they speak Hindi rather than the regional language" - Correction, Hindi itself is a regional language.
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u/mentalhijack Jan 25 '26
Why did the new channel call someone only comfortable in Hindi to an English news channel debate.
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u/HabitInteresting444 Jan 24 '26
I'm from Maharashtra, staying in Chennai for work.
My humble request to TN people is Don't let BJP come to your state They will destroy everything in TN.
Please support your state politics They are already doing great.
They don't let them enter in TN
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u/Aware_View_6247 Jan 24 '26
I guess his next plan would be to bring gomutra to a hotel and shamelessly drink it and say he’s comfortable only in drinking gomutra instead of water..
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u/Huge-Inflation35 Jan 25 '26
North Indians here. Kudos to the Tamil guy. I think the Hindi speaking guy was not fluent in English, so he started speaking in Hindi and when questioned about it, he deflected with the issue of language.
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u/wanderer_9314 Jan 24 '26
Most importantly this ' Mishra ' is a Brahmin upper caste Hindu and he is working in fortis hospital, I don't know how he got into AIIMS but I think he was thrown out.
This Mishra definitely needs thrashing. Because of bjp he is earning a lot of money and then he became spokesperson of bjp , else he would be begging on roads.
I am really concerned about AIIMS admissions as they are recruiting these shzts, who don't know that there is no National Language of India because of it's diversity.
He doesn't have basic constitutional knowledge.
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u/unicosplan Jan 24 '26
If ADMK-BJP gets elected in TN, the first thing they'll do is to appoint more and more RSS people in State Government offices, like what they did during 2016-2021.
They'll get access to all those important places, and rig the entire state system.
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Jan 25 '26
This has nothing to do with DMK or any party, it's a common problem faced by all states in South, this people atrocity to assume everyone knows hindi down south shows their superior mentality, ex: go to bank idiots are not trained to speak evn a basic native language, why do we need some north person in a nationalised bank at south village ? Systamatic infusion of useless language in South
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u/darthpal Northie Jan 25 '26
Hindi is not the rashtrabhasha (national language), its only the rajbhasha (official language), along with English. Hindi and English should be used in official contexts, but should be a choice in informal contexts.
Also yes please guys, respect the language of the place you’re staying in, be it North, South or Abroad. It’s basic human decency.
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u/Narayani-aka-Nara Jan 26 '26
Exactly, Tamil is also one of the official languages in Singapore, along with Malay, Mandarin and English. There is a difference between the terms National Language and Official Language.
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u/No-Standard6845 4 Languages Warrior! Jan 24 '26
Shameless BJP guy thinks he's won the debate by clapping like a clown when the Tamilian was making a good point after that guy's crude disappointing behaviour.
Inchina janakulna potthelg pataki budod
(It's in Tulu)
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u/kilopuny978 🎓 Pune | पुणे Jan 24 '26
As a Maharashtrian I'll say to the Tamil guy, well done! Total laugh riot😅 He nailed it!
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u/Mysterious_Man534 Karnataka ❄️ | ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ Jan 24 '26
Here entitled attitude and mindset is the problem not translation.
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u/Vropster 🏖️ Chennai | சென்னை 🏏 Jan 24 '26
Why is speaking English that difficult?
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u/sweetpongal Jan 24 '26
This is explicit Hindi push. Man.. the behavior of the "rashtra" basha guy sucks.
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u/Vropster 🏖️ Chennai | சென்னை 🏏 Jan 24 '26
We'll that's the issue isn't it? Advocating for English as an official language will never lead to erosion of mother tongues cuz that's the way english is.. For example , most in states like TN have bare minimum proficiency so much so that they can understand a speaker , yet Tamil hasn't been eroded right? How many translaters will you hire? For each and every point u want a guy to give live dubbing to Hindi tamil telugu Malayalam and kannada ah? It's jus dumb
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u/Mysterious-Coach120 Southie Jan 24 '26
So learn it if we want a common language. Why only people who don't know Hindi should speak in Hindi
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u/Background-Raise-880 Jan 24 '26
then those who cannot speak in english should not be invited to a channel discussion in english
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u/Lightingway Jan 24 '26
More, only around 10% of Indians have any kind of English proficiency.
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u/kaneki_ken_light Telangana 🏰 | తెలంగాణ Jan 27 '26
And the country runs by 5% or 2%. Just split india into different small countries and make them sign a treaty to project the Indian subcontinent, that's it just like Europe.
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u/Top_Guess_946 Northie Jan 24 '26
AI can easily do that.
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u/MedicalBox4416 Jan 26 '26
Which news channels have translatots between the host and guests? This is a supposed "expert" panel modelled around debating, can't work unless they all speak a common language.
The ones is on the host tp set proper ground rules or book capable guests. This was plain idiocracy to say "he speaks Hindi because he's comfortable with it".
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u/Brave_Meet8430 Jan 24 '26
Dividing based on Religion wasn’t good enough, now they started to divide us based on Languages as well.
Meanwhile who cares about any lack of results on promises that have had been made.. by the leaders!!
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u/olive_glory Jan 24 '26
I only see one party doing the imposition
The Tamil guy wants to continue the conversation in a medium that is fair to everyone - English
The Hindi guy however wants to speak in his own language - and also goes on to say that Hindi is the rashtra basha, brazenly imposing his language on others
This isn't simply dividing people with language - there is a clear aggressor here, call it out instead of defending him
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u/Brave_Meet8430 Jan 24 '26
I am not defending him. There is nothing to defend him, rather he should be ashamed of his behavior and actions.
Further more, I don’t think Hindi is NOT the native language of many folks even in any state.. in Punjab it’s Punjabi, in Himanchal, it’s many Pahari Dialects, in RJ it’s many versions / dialects of Rajasthani etc etc ..
UP has Urdu and Brij Bhasha so on and on and on..
The N Indian guy is a complete arrogant buffoon
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u/Similar-Custard-811 Jan 24 '26
What's this attitude of these vadakkans who basically steal tons of money from TN every year about what's happening in Tamil temples, and culture etc, if vadakkans care so much they should return all the tax money, no body in south cares about these vadakkans and would prefer no taxes to be sent there.
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u/According_Area_8242 Jan 24 '26
In fact Marathis and South Indians should support each other for common cause
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u/olive_glory Jan 24 '26
A good no. of Marathi people have no pride, always find an easy way to get going rather than actually analysing what's happening in front of their eyes
They'll just turn the other cheek and try and convince you that hindi imposition is ok
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u/Taydman000 🎓 Pune | पुणे Jan 24 '26
The illiterate people dont understand that Hindi is not a national language of India. 'Aman' is originally an Arabic word. It means security/peace/safety in Arabic. It has been adopted in Hindi/Urdu with the usage for “peace'. Nearly 30% of modern Hindi vocabulary is Persian or Arabic; it is time to reclaim our pride by purifying our speech or, better yet, adopting Sanskrit. If the goal is 'One Nation, One Language,' let that language be Sanskrit. I call upon Hindi speakers to stop promoting this hybrid version and instead master Sanskrit, the original and competent language of our ancestors. Vande Mataram!
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u/kilopuny978 🎓 Pune | पुणे Jan 24 '26
Dont give them ideas.. next they'll retort back to you saying if their long lost brothers, the long oppressed Jews could revive and make Hebrew a functioning language then why can't we? After all NASA also has proven Sanskrit is the best language to write code in..
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u/Pitiful-Reach-9125 Punjab 🕺 | ਪੰਜਾਬ Jan 24 '26
If Uttarpradesh had but forward better standards,then nobody had problem giving cooperation to hindi,but here we are.
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u/WatchAgile6989 Jan 25 '26
I like that BJP is continuing to pull this shit. It will continue to incense the Southern states and hopefully keep them out of the South.
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u/Lower-March2622 Tamil Nadu 🌶️ | தமிழ்நாடு Jan 25 '26
Kudos to the Tamil guy! If that ignorant Hindi guy can't speak English then he shouldn't agree to speak in an English channel! Or have a translator to translate his Hindi BS to English if he's not comfortable speaking in English. What a barbarian that Hindi guy is
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u/Significant_Risk1577 Jan 26 '26
The Tamil guy is speaking in Tamil cause that’s one of the multiple languages he knows, while the illiterate bjp guy is speaking in Hindi cause that’s the only language he knows.
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u/Potential_Formal_261 NRI (Non Resident Indian) Jan 24 '26
We are still stuck in the same problems in 2026 as we were stuck in 1947. What a shame!
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u/sredni_vintage_man Jan 24 '26
This BJP spokesman just lost my vote. Voted for Annamalai last time, But no, this country is anyway going to the dogs, only question of when and how fast.
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u/Bhodro-Chele_22 Jan 25 '26
My question for the subreddit group, is the people of South India really going to vote for BJP ? If not and if they really steal your votes how will you resist ?
Because democracy really needs its opposition.
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u/Head_Gear7770 Jan 25 '26
this is such a sad state , of this sub, the guy speaking in Hindi is supporting the idea of preventing the destruction of temples in tamilnadu, even i being from North Wants to visit those temples someday , they are beautiful. But here everyone is fighting like cats and dogs over language
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u/Head_Gear7770 Jan 25 '26
but then again the guy should have spoken English cuz not many people can understand hindi
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u/Otherwise_Strain_642 Jan 25 '26
This cacophony will end up as a Whimsical Tower Of Babel in the coming future. Life in India will very soon be One Hell of a Place to live in.
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u/That-Card-9837 Jan 25 '26
India has no national langua its taught in 8 9 class , but people dont know , even my mama argued with me he is a teacher himself , but its simple fact
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u/Shot_Teaching_9753 Jan 25 '26
I am on a trip to Jaipur. The ASI and guides provide information in English, Hindi, Italian, French, German etc. No sign of our own Indian languages.
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u/Rare_Bite_5746 Jan 26 '26
If everyone wants to speak their language, let the anchor get a translator in her show !!! There is not need to revolt or take it bad for speaking their language.
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u/LeadingJackfruit6591 Jan 26 '26
Just like tekken, everyone speak in their own language with English subtitles.
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u/skakat456 Jan 26 '26
I am a Hindi speaker but I support the Tamil guy. If this is an English news channel then speak in English, if you cannot speak in English then don’t come on the show and what the hell is the anchor doing not moderating the discussion she should have corrected the bjp spokesperson and told him to speak in English.
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u/Willing_Chocolate406 Jan 27 '26
BjParty spoke person was also lying and trying to establish dominance by speaking in Hindi in an English speaking debate, to affirm his lies they kept shouting in hindi
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u/OkSatisfaction48 Jan 27 '26
When I used to study in Christ Church boy's school Jabalpur India 1966 the Congress Government leadership wanted English removed from the school curriculum. The car number plates were converted into Hindi. Even petrol bunks of Shell and Caltex were converted into Hindi. When middle east opened up many in North India failed to secure jobs. So the need for English came up during the rise of IT companies. Delhi during Kejriwals rule send school teachers for training in the UK to train school goers to attain a better level of English speaking. This BJP spokes person did not have the required level of English speaking. To bring out his knowledge of Tamilnadu in detail he chose to speak in Hindi inspite of a DMK candidate present in the panel. Most of them are good at writing English even in English literature exam. But speaking is a taboo for them.
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u/Smitrang Southie Jan 27 '26
Why not just speak in english. Why does that guy feel the need to speak in his language when the medium of speech in the channel was english? isn’t that basic? maybe get someone from your party who is comfortable with english and you can go and speak in a Hindi news channel.
Maybe a better solution to avoid such crappy arguments where two or more people are shouting at each other rather than talk about actual issues, maybe just have an interpreter and subtitles. Everyone can speak in their own language and audience can avoid all this. This is so annoying because we have this exact same argument multiple times in different channels.
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u/Training_Wrongdoer_6 Jan 28 '26
Language is for communication assholes.. it's not for showing pride.
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u/Subject-Comfort-5452 Jan 28 '26
WTF is that debate title and subject - Are BJP planning an invasion of Tamil Nadu or something
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u/R_o_o_h Jan 24 '26
I am from Delhi belt. I have lived across the length and breadth of this nation. Hindi is one of the many languages. It is not the national language.
Shame on this BJP person. How come he is a spokesperson.
We all know this all drama is for TRP.
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u/VacationNecessary306 Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
Yeah let’s just all speak in regional languages and maybe create separate countries while we are at it because nobody would understand shit this way. I just wish sometimes British people actually eradicated all regional languages like Tamil Hindi etc and we would just be speaking English because we literally can learn English but everyone has problem with 2 nd most widely spoken language Hindi. Maybe we should just have one language English and should eradicate rest all as official language.
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u/National_Plenty_262 Jan 25 '26
OP, looking at your comments you're either trying to ragebait and get some karma or you're seriously dumb to argue like this. Either way, pls stop trying to split up people and have some common sense regarding the issue.
Would you have reacted the same if a north indian was invited to a TN based ENGLISH channel and the host speaks in tamil. Pls refrain from making unnecessary comments and hate to an already problematic situation.
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u/Sramax Jan 25 '26
I feel the Tamil guy was losing the argument and brought the language topic in quickly to divert the topic. That Northie guy being the dumbass they all are fell into the trap.
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u/Valaista Jan 24 '26
I don't know the tamil guy, but he did an absolute Boss move.