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This article is authored by S Venkat Narayan, senior journalist, specialist in global affairs, New Delhi.
“Those who speak English will soon feel ashamed,” Home Minister Amit Shah said last month, igniting a heated debate about national identity and social mobility in the polyglot nation of 1.4 billion.