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Oct 20 2009, Aditya S

In the mid-1990s, UP chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav wrote an official letter to E K Nayanar, then chief minister of Kerala. The letter was in Hindi.

Nayanar wrote back in Malayalam. The foxy Samajwadi Party politician — famous for saying...

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