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Letters to The Editor — August 14, 2023

English names needed

The three Bills that have replaced British-era criminal laws should be named in English rather than in Hindi. In the first place, they had English names, and continued to be recognised in our statute books for many decades.

The government should accept, even if grudgingly, that Hindi names (for the new criminal laws) will confound even Hindi-speaking people. For once, let horse sense dominate inflated political egos and fanaticism for a particular language.

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