Many professors who don’t speak Hindi have, of late, complained that Hindi is being “imposed” on them. Uma Devi, from the Department of Modern Indian Languages, said that even to get an identity card and fill details of students, one has to write in English and Hindi. “In the register where we write down how much a student has scored, we have to write in Hindi and English. I even helped some other teachers… For difficult names, we took help from teachers of the Hindi department,” said Devi, who teaches Tamil at the university. “There are a good number of students and teachers who will easily read and write in Hindi.

Source: Indian Express August 15, 2017 01:07 UTC