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India’s education policy, NEP 2020, speaks the language of inclusion, but practises the politics of exclusion. On paper are noble ideas and sentiments. Instruction in mother tongue in the lower grades is pedagogically sound. Multilingualism is celebrated too on paper. Indian languages are seemingly empowered. In practice, however, Hindi is quietly and cunningly elevated to a default national language. English is delegitimised as “colonial.” Regio...
