"Hindi Will Make Us All Shudras": A New Low In India's Language Wars?

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Senior DMK leader and Rajya Sabha MP TKS Elangovan said on Monday: "Hindi is the native language in underdeveloped states - what will Hindi do? Hindi will make us all 'shudras'." The BJP has strongly reacted to these remarks, hitting out at the DMK for being 'castiest' and 'divisive'. On tonight's episode of Left, Right and Centre, we ask - was this language necessary, and does this further deepen India's language divide?

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