⬆️ >> People have died (including by self-immolation) in pursuit of #Tamil #linguisticCleansing, to remove loanwords from Tamil, to purge Tamil of #Sanskrit influence, which allegedly kept Tamils in a state of economic, cultural, and political servitude 😱

#psychosis #PIE

It is highly ironic that in trying to avoid even tangential dependence on Sanskrit, #TamilNadu ended up enslaving itself to English, which along with so many other European languages, shares so many words with Sanskrit.

@vij