<div dir="ltr"><h1 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:-0.5px;font-weight:normal;font-family:open_sansbold;font-size:30px;line-height:40px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Indians tweet up for linguistic equality and against Hindi imposition</h1><div class="time_stump" style="font-size:11px;color:rgb(91,91,91);border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(222,222,222);padding:8px 0px 10px;font-family:open_sansregular,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:open_sansbold;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Posted on:</span> 07:58 AM IST Aug 16, 2015 | <span style="font-family:open_sansbold;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Updated on:</span> 10:30 am,Aug 16,2015 IST</div><div class="bloger_tbox" style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(222,222,222);padding:10px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:open_sansregular,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div class="clearfix"><div class="fleft" style="float:left"><span class="bloger_nam" style="font-size:12px;font-weight:bold"><a href="http://www.ibnlive.com/byline/vallish-kumar-s.html" class="grtxt" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(255,126,0)">Vallish Kumar S</a></span> <a href="http://www.ibnlive.com/agency/ibnlive.com.html" class="by_now" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(96,96,96);font-size:12px;text-transform:uppercase">IBNLIVE.COM</a></div><div class="social_icon_box fright pnon bnon" style="float:right;padding:20px 0px 15px;border-top-width:0px!important;border-right-width:0px!important;border-bottom-width:1px;border-left-width:0px!important;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(233,233,233);margin:0px"><ul class="clearfix" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 10px;list-style:none"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 18px 0px 0px;list-style:none;float:left;text-align:center;border-right-width:1px;border-right-style:solid;border-right-color:rgb(233,233,233)"><a style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:12px"><span class="tech_sprite tweet_icons3" style="display:block;width:36px;height:34px;background:url(http://static.ibnlive.in.com/pix/ibnhome/ibn_revamp/micro-sprite.png) 0px -184px no-repeat"></span><div class="tlTweet">100</div></a></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 18px;list-style:none;float:left;text-align:center;border-right-width:1px;border-right-style:solid;border-right-color:rgb(233,233,233)"><a style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:12px"><span class="tech_sprite fb_icons3" style="display:block;width:36px;height:34px;background:url(http://static.ibnlive.in.com/pix/ibnhome/ibn_revamp/micro-sprite.png) -38px -184px no-repeat"></span><div class="tlFB">1197</div></a></li><li class="bnon pr_non" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 18px;list-style:none;border-top-width:0px!important;border-right-width:1px;border-bottom-width:0px!important;border-left-width:0px!important;border-right-style:solid;border-right-color:rgb(233,233,233);float:left;text-align:center"><a style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:12px"><span class="more_icon tech_sprite mtop5" style="margin-top:5px;display:block;width:27px;height:26px;background:url(http://static.ibnlive.in.com/pix/ibnhome/ibn_revamp/micro-sprite.png) -252px -20px no-repeat"></span>More+</a></li></ul></div></div></div><p style="color:rgb(46,46,46);font-family:open_sansregular,sans-serif;font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:18px 0px 0px;line-height:28px">On the occasion of 69th Indian Independence day, we all need to remember that this day was achieved by the sacrifices and struggles of millions of people across various parts the sub-continent. There were people from all regions of India in the freedom struggle. People living in erstwhile independent colonies like that of the Mysuru agreed to join the Indian union post-independence with a hope that there would be one country formed on the lines of equality and we all shall equally benefit from democracy since it would be self-rule. Recalling Mahatma Gandhi's words - "Good governance is not a substitute for Self-governance". Hence the expectation from the unified India, independent from British rule was clearly "self-rule". But today, when we retrospect on the way the Union government has functioned in the past 7 decades, self-rule still seems to be a myth for non-Hindi speakers since the Union-government does not speak their language.</p><p style="color:rgb(46,46,46);font-family:open_sansregular,sans-serif;font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:18px 0px 0px;line-height:28px">The Indian Constitution was framed with an oath to secure to all its' citizens - Justice, Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. But the Articles 343-351 of the Indian Constitution declares that only Hindi and English shall prevail as the official languages of Indian Union thereby contradicting with the preamble which vows to assure justice, liberty, equality and fraternity. Further, the Official Languages Act makes it the duty of the Central government to effectively implement this flawed language policy. The language policy of the Indian Union has put millions of Indians from non-Hindi regions to disadvantage in their interactions with the Union government. Banks, post offices, railways, insurance, airways, passport - all departments operating under the Union list follow the language policy of the Union government and hence use Hindi and English only in their day to day transactions. Not just that, but Central government employees in non-Hindi regions are rewarded for using Hindi in their day to day transactions and administration. Union government does not carry out such promotional activities for any other Indian language apart from Hindi.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:18px 0px 0px"><font color="#2e2e2e" face="open_sansregular, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px;line-height:28px"><a href="http://www.ibnlive.com/news/india/indians-tweet-up-for-linguistic-equality-and-hindi-imposition-1040197.html">http://www.ibnlive.com/news/india/indians-tweet-up-for-linguistic-equality-and-hindi-imposition-1040197.html</a></span></font><br></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. 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