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Each night around 9:30 p.m., after working as physicians at Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus in Lakewood, Drs. Avinash and Geeta Gupta log into Zoom to help people on the other side of the world.
The husband-and-wife team from Toms River use the hard lessons they learned battling the pandemic here in New Jersey to advise patients in India as COVID-19 overwhelms the hospital system there.
“Last year we passed through a very critical phase here in America and we had the experience, and this year India is passing through a similar if not worse phase,” said Avinash Gupta, who is chief of cardiology at Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus.
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Aligarh: “Mother tongue is the language of our heart and mind and clearly there is more comfort expressing in it. The native language forms one’s identity. People are recognised by the language they speak and the culture they follow,” said Prof Shaik Mastan, former Dean, Faculty of Arts, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and currently a member of the Andhra Pradesh State Official Language Commission.
He was delivering a special lecture organised to mark the ‘Mother Language Day’ celebrations by the Telugu section, Department of Modern Indian Languages, AMU.
Mother tongue is not just a language, but it is a culture and identity that one has in the society, he said adding that every language spoken in the world represents a special culture, melody, color, and asset and to everyone the mother language is certainly one of the most precious treasures.
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