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Originally Posted by Roy_1
We say Jai Hind same as Joy Hind, although Hindusthan Zindabad is quite popular too, pure Hindi (Sanskritized Hindi) is very similar to Bangla with almost identical vocabularies.
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I remember reading Rushdie's "Midnight Children" and he wrote "Jai Bangla" numerous times. I ended up writing him a letter explaining that it was "Joy Bangla" as in derived from bijoy. Finished off by writing "Obviously it's the same meaning, but when a country is formed on a lingual identity, these things matter Salman."
Never got a response. If he got it, then he probably thinks I'm a jacka$$
