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To put it simply, India's modernization will be driven not by Hindi - and Tamil-speaking villagers, but by the English-speaking middle classes.
India's Aspiring English Speakers Sadanand Dhume 2010
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In a village in Tamil Nadu called Kalikuppam, Dr. Mitra asked a class of poor Tamil-speaking kids to use the Internet, which they had not yet encountered, to learn biotechnology, which they had never heard of, in English, which they did not speak.
Turning Kids From India's Slums Into Autodidacts MATT RIDLEY 2010
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To put it simply, India's modernization will be driven not by Hindi - and Tamil-speaking villagers, but by the English-speaking middle classes.
India's Aspiring English Speakers Sadanand Dhume 2010
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An election in the Tamil-speaking areas is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for a political settlement.
Balakrishnan Rajagopal: Securing Peace and Human Rights in Sri Lanka 2009
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For over 30 years, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam -- better known as the Tamil Tigers -- have justified their secessionist demands on the basis that they represent all Tamil-speaking people in their "Tamil homelands" of the North and East.
Tiger Test Nira Wickramasinghe 2008
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Its multicultural population of 1.3 million is divided between Sinhalese (22%), and two Tamil-speaking communities, the Tamils (45%) and Muslims (32%).
Tiger Test Nira Wickramasinghe 2008
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Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » A Tamil-speaking friend
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » A Tamil-speaking friend 2004
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The Tamil Federal Party touched off an emergency situation because of its disobedience campaign for a separate Tamil-speaking state.
1959, Sept. 26 2001
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Parliament approved the Sinhalese Language Bill to make Sinhalese the sole official language of Ceylon, despite rioting by the Tamil-speaking minority.
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Colony another, and on the other the patriots of Empire who would have me, for example, hail as my fellow-subjects and collaborators in man - making a host of Tamil-speaking, Tamil-thinking Dravadians, while separating me from every English-speaking, English-thinking person who lives south of the Great Lakes.
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