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“The language of freedom”–Daily Metta

September 2: “Is it not a sad thing that we should have to speak of Home-Rule in a foreign tongue?” –Gandhi (Hind Swaraj, Chapter 18) Gandhi did not reject multi-lingualism or even multiculturalism  (he himself was still learning Indian languages at the end); he rejected that some languages, and hence cultures, should feel superior to… read more