Watch: Is the ‘Hindi majority’ claim a statistical illusion?

Chapter 4 of Part I of the Report of the High-Level Committee on Union-State Relations deals with perhaps Tamil Nadu’s most sensitive issue — language. But this is not Tamil versus Hindi. This is about what the Constitution actually says, whether Hindi numbers are inflated, whether English needs protection and whether India’s language policy needs a reset. It also challenges three assumptions: that Hindi is spoken by most Indians; migration makes Hindi essential, and the Three-Language Formu...