"(M)Other Tongue Syndrome: From Breast to Bottle" is an essay that draws on Illich's thoughts about mother tongue and taught language. The 2001 piece is by a linguist named Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay, of the Indian Statistical Institute, and it is available here. It looks at the tension in post-colonial India between Hindi and English.
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The paper is now available at: https://www.academia.edu/411071/_M_Other_Tongue_Syndrome_From_Breast_To_Bottle._
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