He wanted to sound cool, I don’t know English. I can only speak Hindi. The Telugu host’s response was brilliant: In Hindi, We only know one thing. "bhaiya, thoda pyaj dalo". That’s the confidence every non-Hindi states have apart from Odisha. In Odisha, you walk into a mall, supermarket, TV studio, reality show or public event far too often the default suddenly becomes Hindi, even when the audience and participants are perfectly capable of using their own language or English. We need more anchors who can say, politely and confidently You speak Hindi. We speak Odia. Let’s communicate accordingly.” That’s not disrespect. That’s self-respect.

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Yes, Amit Shah is absolutely right. It is high time the North Indian states should learn additional language apart from their mother tongue Hindi and what could be better option for them than learning the only classical language of Indo-Aryan family Odia. Amit sahab you come to Odisha and see how our people learning Hindi, watching Hindi, sleeping hindi, toileting hindi, drank calling in hindi, business in hindi, fighting in hindi, ordering gupchup in hindi, basically We adapt to your hindi. But where is the reciprocity? The north states only learning Hindi and English, while poor mentality, mineral rich state like Odisha learning hindi as second language. I hope all north states respect what you said and add Odia as their second language in their state. Then that will be true national integration.

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