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Kashmiri: Let not religion divide what language unites
By Badri Raina. Dated: 1/24/2019 10:48:23 AM
These thoughts are occasioned by news that the Ministry of Human Resource Development has withdrawn Kashmiri language translations from its language-promoting portal, Bhasha Sangam.
This in response to objections received from some Kashmiri Pandits that the translations contained lexical items that bespoke a sectarian, Muslim use of the language, ignoring Kashmiri-Hindu variations thereof.
At first thought, this is an instance of how community self-perceptions undergo radical change when extraordinary ruptures happen in history - in this case, of the kind that shook the Valley on January 19, 1990................
(First published in thewire.in. Original can be accessed at : https://www.thewire.in/culture/kashmiri-language-pandits-muslims)