'This government has made it compulsory to teach some languages that have died.' 'You can't keep languages alive by making them compulsory.'
Although Kamini has only studied till class five, she quickly got the hang of sending audio messages before her life turned upside down.
'Some semi-literate lunkhead tweeting at Rs 2 per tweet from a dingy basement in Chennai or San Diego accomplishes nothing, but give hundreds of thousands of them a time, date, and talking points, and they can create a wall of sound -- a nonsensical wall, perhaps, but one that is heard, and that can occasionally prevail just because it's there,' says Mitali Saran.