{"id":49532,"date":"2022-10-22T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T04:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/22\/modi-employs-new-tool-in-indias-war-against-the-english-language-hindi-medical-degrees"},"modified":"2022-10-22T13:00:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T04:00:58","slug":"modi-employs-new-tool-in-indias-war-against-the-english-language-hindi-medical-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49532","title":{"rendered":"Modi employs new tool in India\u2019s war against the English language: Hindi medical degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since it came to power, the BJP has have taken intermittent pot shots at English, branding it a \u2018colonial relic\u2019 surrounded by a \u2018slavish mentality\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Narendra Modi\u2019s government is intensifying its efforts to relegate English to the margins of Indian life where it believes it belongs as a \u201ccolonial relic\u201d by offering medical degrees in Hindi for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since he came to power eight years ago, Modi, along with home minister Amit Shah and other Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, have taken intermittent pot shots at the English language and talked up Hindi, the language of north India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/22\/modi-employs-new-tool-in-indias-war-against-the-english-language-hindi-medical-degrees\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since it came to power, the BJP has have taken intermittent pot shots at English, branding it a \u2018colonial relic\u2019 surrounded by a \u2018slavish mentality\u2019Narendra Modi\u2019s government is intensifying its efforts to relegate English to the margins of Indian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49533,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49532\/revisions\/49533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}