Why Kerala is at peace with Hindi. It’s not like Tamil Nadu

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Even if Menon’s nonchalance regarding the language imbroglio cannot be generalised, it is a fact that there have been no recorded anti-Hindi agitations in Kerala—neither before nor after Independence. Instead, Menon devoted most of his speech to the United States’ war in Vietnam, predicting the superpower’s humiliation, recalls PV Krishnan Nair, former secretary at Kerala Sahitya Academy and a student union representative at the time. It was the summer of 1964. VK Krishna Menon, who was no longer India’s high-profile defence minister, was slated to deliver a lecture at Maharaja’s College in Kochi. The student union council representatives requested Menon...