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Manu Joseph: Hindi cannot colonise the South because Hindi is useless

People who cannot pronounce ‘Kanimozhi’ are trying to unify Indians. Once, the union home minister Amit Shah, who many South Indians think is a North Indian, said that India needs a unifying language, and that language is Hindi. He immediately unified half of India, for that is all it takes to make South Indians pretend that they love each other and that they are all the same. Then Tamil politicians, who are actually actors, and Tamil actors, who are actually politicians, lamented ‘the imposition’ – an English word that is extremely difficult for most Tamils to pronounce.

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