The writer is at the department of history, Panjab University, Chandigarh
Whether Hindi or any other tongue, there has to be a strong practical reason to learn it
A language, after all, is a device for communication between people. This is a point that we need to remember, always.
“Ñan ninne snehikkunnu”, says the wife to her migrant husband who has remitted her some money. To know what this means you will have to look at the PhonePe advertisement that came out in 2018. It is still available on YouTube. What the advertisement does indicate is that north Indian, Hindi speakers, are just as adept at learning a language other than Hindi given the right incentive to do so. The wife in this advertisement probably learnt Malyalam on her own in order to communicate with her husband privately, even in the presence of her mother in-law.
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