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Language policy

Sir, — Please refer to the report `MPs clash over language issue in Lok Sabha' (March 6): It is arrogant on the part of the MPs to cry `one nation, one language', in a multi-linguistic society. It is appropriate to recall the statement of Colvin R. De Silva, Left politician of Sri Lanka, in this context. When the Sinhala Only Act was passed in 1956, he said: ``If you accept two languages, there will be one nation and if you insist on one language, there will be two nations''.

K. Kesavasamy,
Thiruvananthapuram

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