Court junks plea to replace ‘Tamil’ with ‘Thamizh’
CHENNAI, MARCH 23, 2019 00:00 IST
Petitioner says State continuing to use wrong spellings introduced by the British
The Madras High Court has dismissed a public interest litigation petition seeking a direction to the State government to desist from using ‘Tamil’ or ‘Tamil Nadu’ in all official communications and instead use ‘Thamizh’ and ‘Thamizh Nadu’.
Justices S. Manikumar and Subramonium Prasad refused to entertain the case at the admission stage itself after Additional Government Pleader E. Manoharan told the court that even the Constitution spelt the word as ‘Tamil’ and not ‘Thamizh’. T.S. Sankar, 41, a lawyer from Tiruvannamalai district, filed the PIL petition contending that Thamizh was one of the oldest languages, which had an official status not only in India but also in foreign countries such as Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore.
Colonial practice
CHENNAI, MARCH 23, 2019 00:00 IST
Petitioner says State continuing to use wrong spellings introduced by the British
The Madras High Court has dismissed a public interest litigation petition seeking a direction to the State government to desist from using ‘Tamil’ or ‘Tamil Nadu’ in all official communications and instead use ‘Thamizh’ and ‘Thamizh Nadu’.
Justices S. Manikumar and Subramonium Prasad refused to entertain the case at the admission stage itself after Additional Government Pleader E. Manoharan told the court that even the Constitution spelt the word as ‘Tamil’ and not ‘Thamizh’. T.S. Sankar, 41, a lawyer from Tiruvannamalai district, filed the PIL petition contending that Thamizh was one of the oldest languages, which had an official status not only in India but also in foreign countries such as Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore.
Colonial practice
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