Letter to BS: The best option today would be to revisit 3-language formula
Social media users in India have been using English or Devanagari scripts for communicating in a language of their choice
 "DMK chief M K Stalin and party leaders pay tribute to M Karunanidhi on his 95th birth anniversary, in Chennai on Monday. Stalin welcomed the Centre's move to revise the draft education policy. Photo: PTI")
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DMK chief M K Stalin and party leaders pay tribute to M Karunanidhi on his 95th birth anniversary, in Chennai on Monday. Stalin welcomed the Centre’s move to revise the draft education policy. Photo: PTI
Apropos V Jayaraman's letter “Learn Hindi” (June 6), the south's aversion to Hindi has a post-Nehru era origin, when a fear psychosis about compulsory imposition of Hindi enveloped the non-Hindi-speaking states. Till then, the three language formula (mother tongue, English and Hindi) was under implementation across the country with reasonable success.