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Adab Sarai: a platform launched to revive the glory of Indian languages
Saquib Salim
Ramcharitmanas, one of the epic literary texts is composed by poet Tulsidas in Awadhi. Surdas, Amir Khusro, Kavi Bhushan, and several others used Braj Bhasha to compose their poetry. Yet, the academia, politics, and elite discourse do not consider Awadhi and Braj Bhasha as languages. For them, these are dialects of Hindi.
Even though millions of people speak these languages, literature in these languages predates ‘Hi...