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Inherent Diversity

In: Curiocities Where Complex Cities Meet Curious Minds

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  • Debarshi Dasgupta

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Most Indians are destined to be inherently multilingual – we are a country that speaks at least 780 documented languages. One has to be extremely insensitive to this endemic linguistic diversity to become monolingual in India. I grew up speaking Bengali (my mother tongue) at home in Assam, a state where Assamese is the dominant official language. On the other hand, I studied Assamese at school in my early years and used it to converse with many of my friends, which embedded it as one of my foundation languages. I similarly acquired Hindi, which was taught to me at school and something we were exposed to through mass media, particularly television and cinema…

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  • Debarshi Dasgupta, 2022. "Inherent Diversity," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Curiocities Where Complex Cities Meet Curious Minds, chapter 4, pages 57-75, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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