The DMK’s opposition to three-language policy is a classic case of party over nation. Perhaps it is time for the party to take pride in Kathak as we north Indians do in Bharatanatyam.
All-party meeting led by Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin saw 58 of 63 invited parties attend. BJP allies Puthiya Tamilagam, Tamil Maanila Congress, Puthiya Needhi Katchi & NTK skipped it.
Southern states have accused the Centre of 'Hindi imposition'. In this edition of ThePrint Quiz, let’s test your knowledge of Indian languages and their role in official govt work.
On 15 April 1967, CN Annadurai spoke at the Bureau of Tamil Publications ceremony in Madras, defending Tamil's legacy and opposing Hindi imposition in India.
Episodes of confrontations between Bengalis & non-Bengalis have revived debate of language imposition. English medium education is highly in demand and Bengali language in that case becomes marginalised.
Chennai resident Sharmilaa Rajasekaran was travelling with her three-year-old child when the incident reportedly took place at Dabolim airport’s security check-in.
DMK, which has been vocal against Hindi imposition, has started a podcast in Hindi and other languages, advertised in Hindi media and hired Hindi speakers to bust BJP’s divisive agenda.
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If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.
It’s ridiculous. Tamil Nadu has no cards to play and hold the centre to ransom. In fact all the financial cards are with the centre , especially after GST.
It needs a more scholarly and erudite education minister to find a way out of this NDA created imbroglio.
Some flexing on both sides is required. Students in North can be given a choice of Hindi, English plus any modern European or S Indian language upto std 8.
Students in South can be asked to take their State language plus English plus one out of Hindi , a modern European language or a S Indian language other than their own.
Teacher shortage cannot be an excuse anymore with online classes getting so popular.
Dear madam,
As a proud Tamilian who has learned to speak Hindi and married to a Rajasthani, I would like to get the statistics of number people outside the Southern or North Eastern states who can speak any language other than their own, Hindi or English. In fact, outside the metros, even English diction is so poor. So why don’t we first impose the 2 or 3-language policy in BJP-ruled UP, Haryana or Rajasthan before holding the non-BJP state education budget funds ransom? The number of people who learn Hindi voluntarily will go down sharply if people in TN, AP or the NE states are forced to learn Hindi.
Then why Chinese are trying hard to study English, and government is promoting young chinese to learn English as well……what you are saying is that English is imperialistic, Hindi is not….but for South of India Hindi is imperialistic because someone insist them to learn Hindi, people will learn the language when the need arise, there are lot of immigrant workers in TN who is learning to speak Tamil, so there is no need for a government to come and say that you must learn this language – Hindi to be a better Indian….None of the north indian states does not teach any of the south indian languages as part of the NEP 2020, Why?
No, cherry picking on ads, everyone learns English as second language in school. Government or private, if not the medium of instruction it is the second language.
If you feel many people are not able to pick it up as a common link language, why do you think a third language can do that ?
Spoken like a true Hindi speaker. Half of the story told, other half left for interpretation. Am sorry, we are proud Dravidians. Our languages were created long before an idea of even “bharath” was even there. If you want to be so proud of a singular connecting language, let’s all learn Tamil. I am not a tamilinian and yet I understand their concern. Stop pushing that language down our throats. We would rather learn a dead language like sanskrit than a dirty urdu influenced language like Hindi. It’s not even a classical language!!
Butt hurt Hindi speakers are killing their own native languages like Awadhi and they want to to dictate terms to better educated South Indians to kill our own languages. No thanks. Just because you are an ignoramus, you can’t expect the south to be brought down to your level of thinking.
Same old arguments to support a stupid cause which wastes time & diverts attention. Let people learn what they want to, based on their interests & what the market values. Why does the government need to dictate what people should learn.
PS : National integration is such a weird argument to take. As if we need a common language for that.
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It’s ridiculous. Tamil Nadu has no cards to play and hold the centre to ransom. In fact all the financial cards are with the centre , especially after GST.
It needs a more scholarly and erudite education minister to find a way out of this NDA created imbroglio.
Some flexing on both sides is required. Students in North can be given a choice of Hindi, English plus any modern European or S Indian language upto std 8.
Students in South can be asked to take their State language plus English plus one out of Hindi , a modern European language or a S Indian language other than their own.
Teacher shortage cannot be an excuse anymore with online classes getting so popular.
Dear madam,
As a proud Tamilian who has learned to speak Hindi and married to a Rajasthani, I would like to get the statistics of number people outside the Southern or North Eastern states who can speak any language other than their own, Hindi or English. In fact, outside the metros, even English diction is so poor. So why don’t we first impose the 2 or 3-language policy in BJP-ruled UP, Haryana or Rajasthan before holding the non-BJP state education budget funds ransom? The number of people who learn Hindi voluntarily will go down sharply if people in TN, AP or the NE states are forced to learn Hindi.
Then why Chinese are trying hard to study English, and government is promoting young chinese to learn English as well……what you are saying is that English is imperialistic, Hindi is not….but for South of India Hindi is imperialistic because someone insist them to learn Hindi, people will learn the language when the need arise, there are lot of immigrant workers in TN who is learning to speak Tamil, so there is no need for a government to come and say that you must learn this language – Hindi to be a better Indian….None of the north indian states does not teach any of the south indian languages as part of the NEP 2020, Why?
No, cherry picking on ads, everyone learns English as second language in school. Government or private, if not the medium of instruction it is the second language.
If you feel many people are not able to pick it up as a common link language, why do you think a third language can do that ?
Spoken like a true Hindi speaker. Half of the story told, other half left for interpretation. Am sorry, we are proud Dravidians. Our languages were created long before an idea of even “bharath” was even there. If you want to be so proud of a singular connecting language, let’s all learn Tamil. I am not a tamilinian and yet I understand their concern. Stop pushing that language down our throats. We would rather learn a dead language like sanskrit than a dirty urdu influenced language like Hindi. It’s not even a classical language!!
Butt hurt Hindi speakers are killing their own native languages like Awadhi and they want to to dictate terms to better educated South Indians to kill our own languages. No thanks. Just because you are an ignoramus, you can’t expect the south to be brought down to your level of thinking.
Request North Indian BJP leaders to debate with Stalin in Hindi about the importance of learning Hindi for Tamils
Same old arguments to support a stupid cause which wastes time & diverts attention. Let people learn what they want to, based on their interests & what the market values. Why does the government need to dictate what people should learn.
PS : National integration is such a weird argument to take. As if we need a common language for that.