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These laws mean zilch - the state of Karnataka, which hosts Bengaluru, where demagogues routinely raise Xenophobia based on language, has exactly 1-school that teaches Science/Mathematics at the high-school level (PUC, 11/12th) in Kannada.

Try using these "laws" and "rights" when you're trying to apply for a university, or asking a IIT to teach you in Hindi/Tamil LOL. These provisions are mostly used to skirt around the (generally onerous) laws by so-called "minority institutions" (eg. Manipal).

It's very disingenous to make such arguments by anyone with their eyes open in India. It's almost like the classic quip (almost a criticism of proto-liberalism) about the British empire: everyone is free in it as long as he's British!

Indians will go to Germany and learn German; go to Japan and learn Japanese; but will resist building anything of value with the culture/language of their own states of residence. The Anglophone-Indians will religiously preach a particularly seductive form of nationalist-liberalism internally for India that continues all the colonial structures of the British empire, because it helps them optimize for their own economic outcomes (ofc. they do this internationally too).

Absurd state of affairs tbh - and it has (eg. Blume Ventures' report) and will keep India poor with the wealth limited to ~5-10% of the population.

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Last I checked, the Union Govt is not going around imposing English everywhere like they are pushing Hindi.

Also India's wealth is always going to be limited to 5-10℅ of the citizenry. India is pretty much USA on steroids at this point - a handful of capitalists controlling a lot of public infrastructure, ministers openly indulging in corruption, routine exploitation of the working class, piss poor healthcare and education provision where they try to skirt around the evolution question and Gandhism. The bowing down of India to the US is no surprise, given all of these other factors already playing around in the background.

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> Doubt in Germany a user can submit documents in French and can get have special protection by Germany for promoting French language.

I did submit a non-German language document to get my German citizenship.

At the end, whatever you say - India is f*ked up by regional politics. With English a poor person from region A can go to B and find some job/livelihood.

Are you against it? I understand you want homogeneity - it is not there.

But people like you creating divisions by telling

>>>> It shall be the duty of the Union to promote the spread of the Hindi language, to

will promote more chaos. Good for rest of the rich world especially west and China.

Like my physics teacher used to say in Chennai... We don't need foreigners to mess us - We Indians do it for us.

All you want is India to fight like Arab states - internally. Divide and conquer. Thank you from the West and China.

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TL;DR Tamil Nadu should ... be its own country?
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It doesn't sound like a particularly large leap to think that polities as large as the Indian federal states could work as countries.
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