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Sep 26 2009, Shivangi Singh

First of all, don’t get confused by the title. Let me assure you it is not really literally about a war that we are talking about here and yet the conflict between content and language is nothing short of a war.

It was few years back that i had...

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Protesters run away as Malaysian riot police fire tear gas during a protest against using English for mathematics and science teaching in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, March 7, 2009.