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| | The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Language-wise, certainly, India’s multicultural project is by no means a modern phenomenon. |
 | | In his essay, “The Case of a Wounded Literature,” Malayalam poet and critic K. Satchidanandan points out that quite a few Indian poets between the 10th and 19th centuries — Guru Nanak, Mira and Kabir for instance — wrote in two, three or even four languages, without any conscious effort or cultivated scholarship. |
 | | In addition to generous doses of Sanskrit and Tamil, it has, in day-to-day use, naturalized words from Urdu, Kannada, English, Dutch and Portuguese. |
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