The reason for there not being many Hindi signs is that the protest is centered in Bengal. Bengalis don't really have a good relationship with Hindi due to political reasons (even though they have linguistic similarities). In recent times, the central government has been trying to force Hindi on all Indians, which has made the situation worse.

[–] Stalins_Spoon@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not really, everyone speaks Hindi

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

No.

Source: I'm Bengali. I speak Hindi, and no one else in my family does. And my family isn't that uncommon from the general population.

[–] Stalins_Spoon@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

idk where in WB ur from but I can go up to any random, and speak hindi

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm from near Kolkata. And yes, some do understand Hindi because it's similar to Bangla, but people rarely speak it. And even if we do, we do it reluctantly. I speak in English with my non-Bengali friends, and it's pretty common to do that in my cohort.

[–] Stalins_Spoon@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 3 months ago

In the city, they are used interchangeably, people often using both if they are speaking to people out of the state. Of the older population, people often know Bengali+Hindi bcz most Bollywood movies are in Hindi