- @dinesh #txt-anno http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-sadness-of-silence/article6966883.ece {u'ranges': [{u'start': u'/div[1]/div[2]/div[6]/div[1]/div[7]/div[1]/p[9]', u'end': u'/div[1]/div[2]/div[6]/div[1]/div[7]/div[1]/p[9]', u'startOffset': 1, u'endOffset': 597}], u'quote': u'Sometimes the silencing of a story comes from official definitions. I remember Ganesh Devy, the literary critic, once told me that the official is a form of silencing. The government of India defined a language as a form of life which needs a script. In one indifferent stroke, it condemned all the oral languages of India to silence. The silencing of the tribal was one of the great crimes of modern India. It goes beyond the deafness of mutes. In silencing the tribal we robbed him of his identity, his memory, his myth. It was an imposition of vulnerability leading inevitably to annihilation.', u'permissions': {u'read': [], u'admin': [], u'update': [], u'delete': []}, u'text': u'In one official stroke, the govt condemned all oral languages to silence - says shiv', u'tags': [u'alipi,', u'silence,', u'official,', u'oral']} created: Thu, 12 Mar 2015, 04:48 AM UTC