The letter Mahatma Gandhi wrote on January 11, 1948 — just 19 days before he was shot dead on January 30 — underlines how, even when he had failed to stop Partition
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Respected Editor
I fully agree with the last paragraph “This is copying the bad manners of Pakistan with a vengeance. I invite every inhabitant of India to join me in a stern refusal to copy bad manners.” He asked them, “Will Muslim friends rise to the occasion and do two things — subscribe to the Urdu edition (of Harijan) and diligently learn Nagri script and enrich their intellectual capital?”
There was a time during the Partition when Hindi was considered a language of the enemy. Any one teaching, learning or writing Hindi was considered a traitor and even declared a Anti-National. Such was the level of mis-trust.
Suresh Shenoy
