#The nastalik script rather than the devanagari script
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#Another musing on the status of my Hindi#This time I'm not so morbid about it though#Did you know that khadi boli used to be read in#The nastalik script rather than the devanagari script#Pre independence?#And that the idea that nastalik is for Muslims and devanagari is for Hindus#Is a complete and utter construct that had more to do with colonial forces and publishing politics#Than an inherent religion?#So what I take away from that factoid is#There is no one true pure anything and that I'm not losing Hindi#But deploying it in different ways#And that it's never too late to learn anything#And that learning can happen without worrying about whether what I'm learning#Is “pure” or not#Hindi#Writing#Internalised purity culture? But for languages?
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