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Newslaundry
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NL Team

Hafta letters: Against labels, language chauvinism, communist propaganda

In Hafta 405, I loved Abhinandan’s exasperation at how Bongs at a workplace start chatting in Bengali. I guess this is the common experience of non-Hindi speakers at all workplaces where Hindi speakers expect everyone else to join in Hindi. Then, even if you try, they will crack a joke at the earliest opportunity – “train aata nahin aati hain”. I guess someone got a taste of their own meds. 

On a serious note, I am wondering if you will consider releasing some periodic content in Bengali as I really want to share it with my parents and friends in Bangladesh. Hope you see the business sense too as Bengali and Tamil are the only international Indian languages. OK, that line was a bit stretched. Needless to say, I am a bong. Keep up the good work!

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