US Embassy wishes India in 22 languages

New Delhi, Aug 15: As India celebrated its 78th Independence Day on Thursday, the US Embassy in India extended its greetings in a unique manner with several envoys wishing India in all 22 scheduled Indian languages.

The languages the US envoys wished India were Hindi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Dogri, Gujarati, Marathi, Konkani, Maithili, Assamese, Meitei, Bodo, Nepali, Santhali, Kannada, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Odia, and Urdu.

“Did you know the Indian Constitution defines 22 scheduled languages? All of us at Embassy New Delhi and the consulates in Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Mumbai couldn’t decide which language to use to express our excitement about Indian Independence Day, so we just used them all! From every corner of the United States to every corner of India...Happy Independence Day!” the US Embassy stated in a post on X.