Image Source : PTI Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while replying to the Banking Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024, on Tuesday in the Parliament recalled incidents when she was mocked on the streets of Tamil Nadu. Expressed anguish over not being allowed to learn Hindi in Tamil Nadu as a student, she said her Hindi is not so good because her state did not allow her to learn the language. The Union Minister said she was mocked for learning Hindi in Tamil Nadu. The statement comes after some Opposition members tried to corner her over her Hindi. While speaking in the Lok Sabha, Sitharaman said, “I speak from my lived experience in Tamil Nadu when even going to learn Hindi, aside from my school, I was mocked on the streets. And I was mocked saying – oh you want to learn Hindi. You live in Tamil Nadu…and you want to learn Hindi, that North India’s bhasha (language). These are the words ringing in my ears…Learning Hindi and Sanskrit are perceived as learning some …