January 2022 – The Language Rights Blog

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Fencing Across the Fence: Protecting Punjabi

Amrita Pritam, the famous poet who fled Pakistan after the partition of 1947, writes in her famous poem ‘Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shaah Nu ’ – “Lost is the flute, which once, blew sounds of the heartRanjha’s brothers, today, no longer know this art…” On the eve of the partition of the Read more…

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When the Tongue is Tied: Bengali Linguistic Self-Determination

“Birth is painful! They say, when a mother gives birth to a child, she undergoes through a pain equivalent to fracturing 20 bones altogether. Imagine the birth of a Nation – imagine the birth of Bangladesh. Imagine its pain” – Abhi Sanghani December 2021, marks half a century of the bloody Read more…

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