The Tamil film has drawn strong objections from Congress, even as its ally & ruling DMK appears to welcome it. Rival BJP has sought to exploit the discord within the ruling alliance.
The article to adopt Hindi as the official language of the Union was moved by . Gopalaswami Iyengar. The fact that he was from Madras has been exploited to assert that non-Hindi members welcomed Hindi, wrote P Kodanda Rao in 1988.
While govt blames closure on parents preferring English medium, educators & activists say that administration is not putting enough efforts to upgrade infra in these schools.
I was surprised when Andhra Pradesh minister Nara Lokesh and Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan advocated for Hindi—at a time when states like Tamil Nadu and Karnataka are opposing its imposition.
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Their planned joint appearance against Hindi imposition in Maharashtra schools is seen as a step towards a possible union of the Shiv Sena (UBT) and MNS ahead of BMC polls.
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IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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.