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Article: Don't copy bad manners of Pak, Gandhi wrote on opp to Urdu.
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- June 29, 2007
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Don't copy bad manners of Pak, Gandhi wrote on opp to Urdu
London, June 29 (PTI) In a letter written 19 days before his death, Mahatama Gandhi had admonished those who were opposing Urdu, asking them not to copy "the bad manners of Pakistan with a vengeance" while advocating that it should be jointly recognised with Devanagari as national scripts.
In the letter, a rare manuscript that will go under hammer at Christie's in London on July three, Gandhi said opposing Urdu will "put a wanton affront" on the Muslims, who "in the eyes of Hindus have become aliens in their own land".
Writing in his journal 'Harijan' on January 11, 1948, Gandhi, who ...