Jonathan
I have perused your website with great interest. I am a UK-based anthropology student researching into language and identity in Mumbai, and I have a strong interest in language use in Housing Societies. Given that you clearly have a very wide experience of such societies and the challenges they face, I was wondering whether you had ever encountered any issues relating specifically to language and CHS? For example, I understand that CHS committee meeting minutes are required to be in English, Hindi or Marathi following a state government circular, and I was wondering whether this ever poses problems. Or whether you have ever encountered disputes over which language meetings should be conducted in? I am, of course, aware that linguistic issues are likely to be low down the list of challenges housing societies face!
Please rest assured anything you tell me will be treated as confidential and I would seek your explicit permission before including anything you tell me in my dissertation.
Thank you very much in advance for any insight you can provide.
Best wishes,
I C Naik
Thank you very much Jonathan for writing to us. You must have observed that the responses to user questions have a specific character. They relate to practical genuine difficulties of members belonging to cooperative sector. They are guided to better work as cooperators. The idea is strengthening cooperative movement. The difficulties referred to us for guidance are faced by cooperators in managing cooperatives. Giving responses do not require undertaking research as that is also not part of our Column “co-op related questions”
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