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Forcing the people of the southern states to speak Hindi means imposing 'Manudharma' on them. The remarks came in the wake of remarks made by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on behalf of Hindi on the issue of "One Country One Language", a leader of the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu. His question is, even though Hindi is not the mother tongue, what will happen if Bengali, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Maharashtra are developed states, but still developing states use the mother tongue of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Bihar? Opposing the argument that increasing the use of Hindi would increase employment opportunities, the DMK leader quipped, "Hindi is spoken in places where people sell Panipuri." I will end up as a Shudra, that is, a slave." Shah recently questioned the use of Hindi as the...