Macaulay's intent was quite different from what has been propagated by Indian leaders and public intellectuals, who love to live in their own sectarian mental chambers.
The court order seeking the rounding up of this companion of humans over millennia is a sad story of our times, where our civilisational values have been obscured.
The creative ensemble of Russia’s NP Ogarev National Research Mordovia State University took centre stage, with performances highlighting the richness of Russian and Indian heritage.
Journalist Uday Mahurkar, founder of Save Culture Save Bharat foundation, has written to govt seeking ban on Netflix & X to make India ‘world’s first sexually perverted content-free nation’.
A number of cultural institutions have come under the scanner for shrinking autonomy and fluid identities in Modi's India. For some writers, Sahitya Akademi is the last remaining frontier.
At press conference in Delhi Wednesday, the union minister said Congress raised issues of casteism and religion, and when it did not work it resorted to a ‘north-south divide.’
Allahabad HC judge Siddharth granted bail to Jai Govind, accused by victim’s mother of abetting her suicide, citing 'one-sided' probe, and 'essentials' of abetment not being satisfied.
In this climate of populism, the clamour for accountability can easily transform into evaluation becoming a lever of control rather than a tool for feedback and improvement.
ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
Shocking to see this kind of defence. Sure, propaganda relies on half-truths such as the quote about breaking the backbone of Bharatiya education. But it is hard to deny the overt supremacism in the British policy. You don’t need to ban traditional education outright to impose it – the economic genius lies in making it irrelevant, so there is always the illusion of choice even as the choice makes itself for reasons of pragmatism. That’s my one big complaint with “independent” Bharata as well – Bharatiya language medium education is irrelevant as an option if you eventually (for higher education or a job) must, at some point, switch to English. It is a choice, yes, but a choice no person would like to make rationally. Hence an imposition without imposition.
Also it is disappointing that the article treats Sanskrit and Arabic as equals throughout. The British might’ve opposed both, but let’s not forget that we were colonised by Arabic and Farsi first – a deeper colonisation that has left an indelible mark on many languages down to pronunciation and words that don’t represent our thought but have subtly replaced it.
(Also before anyone points out: Would’ve replied in Hindi or Sanskrit if the original were in that language.)
Typical Hindu trait !! Shame on this writer. shame on the The Print staff
Shocking to see this kind of defence. Sure, propaganda relies on half-truths such as the quote about breaking the backbone of Bharatiya education. But it is hard to deny the overt supremacism in the British policy. You don’t need to ban traditional education outright to impose it – the economic genius lies in making it irrelevant, so there is always the illusion of choice even as the choice makes itself for reasons of pragmatism. That’s my one big complaint with “independent” Bharata as well – Bharatiya language medium education is irrelevant as an option if you eventually (for higher education or a job) must, at some point, switch to English. It is a choice, yes, but a choice no person would like to make rationally. Hence an imposition without imposition.
Also it is disappointing that the article treats Sanskrit and Arabic as equals throughout. The British might’ve opposed both, but let’s not forget that we were colonised by Arabic and Farsi first – a deeper colonisation that has left an indelible mark on many languages down to pronunciation and words that don’t represent our thought but have subtly replaced it.
(Also before anyone points out: Would’ve replied in Hindi or Sanskrit if the original were in that language.)
Achha aadmi thaa. At least I owe a lot to him.
Puke-worthy socialism is the main culprit for India’s failures.