Tamil is trickier, with its Dravidian strut ... Till Independence, it used both Devanagari and Perso-Arabic scripts, which later widened into a Hindu-Muslim divide. A third shouldn't sting ...

However, KSP's sudden move dilutes the ongoing script controversy, as BJP also wants Bengali and Devanagari scripts for the language. Debbarman criticised KSP for proposing the Bengali or ...