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1. Hindi will not be and cannot be imposed as a national language. However, there is little wisdom in not accepting fact that Hindi has a potential to become (what Union Home Minster Amit Shah claims to have said) ‘a common language’. 2. During last three decades or so our politicians have used language politics to stir up emotions of gullible citizens. However, fact is also that these politicians have ensured that investments are made to setup private schools where English is the medium of instruction. 3. In all new schools in the private sector, study of Tamil or Malayalam or Kannada or Marathi, as the case may be, has become less and less unimportant, as it is study of a ‘second’ or ‘third’ language. 4. My view is that we must not allow politicians to indulge in divisive politics of language. Objective of our education policy should be to ensure that all Indian languages prosper and for that to happen we should be ready to take effective steps towards meeting that objective.
Let me tell you something. Take a common white man living in an English speaking country, and ask him to frame a common place sentence in his native language. Nine times out of ten he will make the commonest of mistakes for which we would have got rapped by our English teachers in school. He cannot write anything without making the most basic spelling mistakes. But yes his diction is far better than ours as are his abuses which pepper his sentences. This is similar to his math skills where he requires a calculator to do what most Indians do mentally in a matter of seconds. Our strengths are to be honest rather than be dragged into this abyss of which language is better and imposing a common language for all. We have existed for so many years without humungus problems and have enjoyed our lives with those harmless jokes of how each state has their own diction.
One can dream , daydream that is , but only supandi believes that dreams come true .For the rest of us , there is the question of earning to live , just to survive and maybe ‘aspire’ for a decent standard of living .When you look at most of the Hindi speaking states , the per capita income is in the range of 20000 to 30000 rs , why would other states want to import impoverishment .Saying anything further would be politically incorrect .
“But for the speaker and its context, it would have passed off as a routine, harmless,…”
That is exactly the point. The speaker is styling himself as the next Baadshah (bad shah?) of India – and his diktat – fatwa – is that there be a unique national language and that be Hindi. It IS profoundly problematic – don’t muddy waters Yogendra with a totally unrelated issue of the English divide.
Moreover it is ingenuous to talk solely of the ENGLISH divide whereas the lived reality of millions of tribals, for example, is that they face exclusion because they are not good at their state-language. Similarly, it is unforgivable, for a supposed liberal like you, to not talk about the Dalit discourse that posits that replacement of brahminical Sanskrit (traditionally forbidden to Shudras and other “low”-casts), by English as the language of elites, has gone a long way towards levelling the playing field.
As long as Indians do not generate knowledge in their own mother tongues, India will remain this poor backward country. For some reason in India language is confused with knowledge. No rich developed nation has replaced its own with a foreign tongue as India is trying to do. The ones doing so are a few in Africa who are as poor and backward as India. U.S.A., Russia, China, Japan, S.Korea, Israel, France, Germany, U.K. all technologically advanced countries extensively use their own mother tongues.
… in their own mother tongueS… as long as we agree that all languages (including english) are equally valid, we are fine.
also, strictly speaking, you are wrong – no one does science in hebrew and the last reknown French and German language scientific journals mearged to become an english one couple of decades ago.
Children do not learn English because, as one black child said, When I grow up, want to become a white man. English unlocks possibilities for advancement that other Indian languages do not. It does not cost much in terms of effort and money. It is cruel for state governments to deprive young children of this route to upward mobility. There is a Himalayan sized inferiority complex amongst some who feel a deep aversion not just to English but to western education, accepting that India has fallen far, far behind the rest of the world, not just the West, seek some kind of refuge and solace in the glories of a mythical. – one will not say non existent – past.
Inferiority complex mean when you do not recognise and try to be something. This inferiority complex is mainly with English champions in our country. This Himalayan sized deep inferiority complex is with English speakers of our country. Germans/French/Chinese didn’t require English to advance their development, but we do. Our people are being forced to learn English.
Therefore we also don’t require English. If Germans/French/Chinese didn’t need it why we?
“deep aversion not just to English but to western education, accepting that India has fallen far, far behind the rest of the world, not just the West, seek some kind of refuge and solace in the glories of a mythical” – as usual ashok’s rants. My recommendation to this not so well read wise man is the latest book by Richard Dawkins “Outgrowing God” and his thoughts on how science is taught to American kids and dogmas that exist in the beacon of Western civilisation. Richard Dawkins, ashok sir, is someone you can refute only if you are REALLY scholarly. Jai Hind.
1. Hindi will not be and cannot be imposed as a national language. However, there is little wisdom in not accepting fact that Hindi has a potential to become (what Union Home Minster Amit Shah claims to have said) ‘a common language’. 2. During last three decades or so our politicians have used language politics to stir up emotions of gullible citizens. However, fact is also that these politicians have ensured that investments are made to setup private schools where English is the medium of instruction. 3. In all new schools in the private sector, study of Tamil or Malayalam or Kannada or Marathi, as the case may be, has become less and less unimportant, as it is study of a ‘second’ or ‘third’ language. 4. My view is that we must not allow politicians to indulge in divisive politics of language. Objective of our education policy should be to ensure that all Indian languages prosper and for that to happen we should be ready to take effective steps towards meeting that objective.
Let me tell you something. Take a common white man living in an English speaking country, and ask him to frame a common place sentence in his native language. Nine times out of ten he will make the commonest of mistakes for which we would have got rapped by our English teachers in school. He cannot write anything without making the most basic spelling mistakes. But yes his diction is far better than ours as are his abuses which pepper his sentences. This is similar to his math skills where he requires a calculator to do what most Indians do mentally in a matter of seconds. Our strengths are to be honest rather than be dragged into this abyss of which language is better and imposing a common language for all. We have existed for so many years without humungus problems and have enjoyed our lives with those harmless jokes of how each state has their own diction.
One can dream , daydream that is , but only supandi believes that dreams come true .For the rest of us , there is the question of earning to live , just to survive and maybe ‘aspire’ for a decent standard of living .When you look at most of the Hindi speaking states , the per capita income is in the range of 20000 to 30000 rs , why would other states want to import impoverishment .Saying anything further would be politically incorrect .
“But for the speaker and its context, it would have passed off as a routine, harmless,…”
That is exactly the point. The speaker is styling himself as the next Baadshah (bad shah?) of India – and his diktat – fatwa – is that there be a unique national language and that be Hindi. It IS profoundly problematic – don’t muddy waters Yogendra with a totally unrelated issue of the English divide.
Moreover it is ingenuous to talk solely of the ENGLISH divide whereas the lived reality of millions of tribals, for example, is that they face exclusion because they are not good at their state-language. Similarly, it is unforgivable, for a supposed liberal like you, to not talk about the Dalit discourse that posits that replacement of brahminical Sanskrit (traditionally forbidden to Shudras and other “low”-casts), by English as the language of elites, has gone a long way towards levelling the playing field.
As long as Indians do not generate knowledge in their own mother tongues, India will remain this poor backward country. For some reason in India language is confused with knowledge. No rich developed nation has replaced its own with a foreign tongue as India is trying to do. The ones doing so are a few in Africa who are as poor and backward as India. U.S.A., Russia, China, Japan, S.Korea, Israel, France, Germany, U.K. all technologically advanced countries extensively use their own mother tongues.
… in their own mother tongueS… as long as we agree that all languages (including english) are equally valid, we are fine.
also, strictly speaking, you are wrong – no one does science in hebrew and the last reknown French and German language scientific journals mearged to become an english one couple of decades ago.
Children do not learn English because, as one black child said, When I grow up, want to become a white man. English unlocks possibilities for advancement that other Indian languages do not. It does not cost much in terms of effort and money. It is cruel for state governments to deprive young children of this route to upward mobility. There is a Himalayan sized inferiority complex amongst some who feel a deep aversion not just to English but to western education, accepting that India has fallen far, far behind the rest of the world, not just the West, seek some kind of refuge and solace in the glories of a mythical. – one will not say non existent – past.
Inferiority complex mean when you do not recognise and try to be something. This inferiority complex is mainly with English champions in our country. This Himalayan sized deep inferiority complex is with English speakers of our country. Germans/French/Chinese didn’t require English to advance their development, but we do. Our people are being forced to learn English.
Therefore we also don’t require English. If Germans/French/Chinese didn’t need it why we?
“deep aversion not just to English but to western education, accepting that India has fallen far, far behind the rest of the world, not just the West, seek some kind of refuge and solace in the glories of a mythical” – as usual ashok’s rants. My recommendation to this not so well read wise man is the latest book by Richard Dawkins “Outgrowing God” and his thoughts on how science is taught to American kids and dogmas that exist in the beacon of Western civilisation. Richard Dawkins, ashok sir, is someone you can refute only if you are REALLY scholarly. Jai Hind.