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Yogendraji,
What is the use of being one multilingual capability? Do you want all our students energies to be spent only to learn new languages? If you spend more time to learn new languages, when you can find time for innovations and discoveries?
India is knowledge based economy and mostly our job generation is happening in IT industry and other service sectors to get required foreign exchanges for our country.
Even China, a manufacturing giant is pushing its nationals to learn English to expand its markets and win friends to their side.
English is an international language which is must to communicate and learn the innovations from rest of the world.
How long you want the Hindi belt be in life support from center? Let us impose English on the Hindi belt and let them prosper to lead our country which would improve the social indicators of that region.
Political parties might support Hindi imposition on south for electoral gains by creating Hindi Pride.Liberal and Socialist like you also fallen to the Hindi Pride trap is neither good for the nation nor for democracy.
What benefits South Indians would get by learning another new language, Hindi. Will it provide new job opportunity? If it provides job, why Hindi belt is still under developed and majority of migration happening from Hindi belt to other part of the country.
I feel that you are suggesting all south Indians to learn Hindi so that migrated North Indians would feel comfortable to converse with locals. Is it fair? South Indians must learn Hindi either he wants to go North India for work or give Jobs to North Indians in South.
Many local languages were vanished in northern India only after India become Republic and world biggest democracy. Each language is bound with its centuries old own culture and larger literature than Hindi.
Do you want to disappear our identities too in the same way as it happened in the north for many languages? If a language is not used for generations then the language will be forgotten and disappear soon from the people memory.
I have been astonished for your honey coated opinion on many subjects but I felt another wicket fallen after Shekhar Gupta, through his post election opinion.
I surprised at your analogous that “Our education system is that street dog anyone can kick.”, I feel India is still a democracy and have to accommodate others feelings as well though it’s minor one.
Good hindi speaking capability alone is enough to make you the Prime Minister of India. Don’t fight it, use it.
I had a Tamil fellow colleague back in my college (in north india), who led a much better successful academic life than other south indian students in our batch. Only because he could speak Hindi, which he liked equally to his mother tongue.. In fact he started liking North India eventually.
I believe, We north indians would benefit heavily (more than the other way) if we learned south indian languages instead of brahmnical bullshit Sanskrit, which is obsolete and useless. That would have fostered a sense of synergic unity as well. I don’t know the jackass whose idea was to impose Sanskrit.
The dominance of English is market driven while that of Hindi is state driven. This resentment will disappear if large numbers of those in the North know at least one official language other than Hindi, or at least basic English. But of course the bhayyas can’t care less. Living in their own cocoons. I don’t think anyone from the North or even those speaking Hindi like languages have any right to comment on this issue. You don’t know what linguistic subalternity means.
Finally we know who the yo yo in Yo Yo Honey Singh is. Wah Yo Yo ji wah. Honey coated like always – we didn’t even realise when you coloured your robes saffron. Is it for petty gain or is there some real pressure on you. We Delhi students had great faith on you. What a sell out. Shame!
How about instead of 3 language formula, you have a 1 language formula. One language which the student can choose to be educated in, whether regional language, mother tongue, English, Hindi, Urdu, Marati or any other international language. The student can CHOOSE if he wants a second or third language to study. Let each student or her family decide instead of some Govt which thinks it knows better. Lets see what citizens choose to learn instead of some compulsory mandate from a govt body.
Language is nothing but a means of communication and communication is something that has to be understood by both the communicator and the communicated. If you wrote this article in Hindi I would not have read it. If India wants to be in the Global map all Indians must learn English as it is the language of Global communication! Medium of education is in English because science & technology has advanced in English vocabulary! The problem here is more basic – India is not one Country – it is several Countries bound by Geography.
I ask Yogendra Yadav which south Indian language he can read and write.If he cannot which child of his or nephew/ niece of his can do so.
If not can he stop his sanctimonious crap
Excellent! He is but another bimaru state product Hindi chauvinist
Mr.Yogendra is clueless about the opposition from Tamil Nadu. For more than half a century two languages formula is practised there. So why should that state switch to a three languages formula Reality is people across classes desire good education with emphasis on English. For higher education English is most suitable and is lingua franca of science and technology. Mother tongue and English as languages is sufficient at school level. Students need training in communication, personality development, and, civic sense .
Yogendraji, what is new about this? For decades, I have observed that whenever the government proposes something, a hue and cry is raised by (A) an individual or a group of persons (B) one or more NGOs ( C ) one or more political party (D) Media and the government backtracks. Sometimes, all the above malcontents act in concert to thwart the government initiative. No attempt is made to appraise the facts and hold rational and meaningful discussion. To keep my comments brief, I will only give two examples: (1) Any move to amend the draconian Rent Control Act (2) Any move to break the stranglehold of IAS lobby and bring in experts from other All India Services and from outside the government.
The fear of imposition of Hindi and the fear of Hindutva among Muslims follow the same politics. Both misconceptions are manufactured for easy votes by politics. Both damages the peaceful living in India. Both have been sustained by politics for a long time now and both have become part of psyche of targeted people. If both of these bubble of misconceptions are to be busted, it will be by the people concerned only. For Muslims fear, Modi has taken the initiative. The next steps are to be taken by the Muslims. In case of Hindi imposition, the initiative have yet to come. Modi has only preempted the likely politics over Hindi. English dominance in India is a fact and there is no attempt from any side to lessen its dominance because it will mean recreation of India as a new nation with Hindi replacing English i. e. Hindi becomes the language of the constitution, the central laws, higher Education and local administrations.
We all might focus to enhance Indian Education in the world. It is time to grow not to argue because Education is foremost.
Yogendraji,
What is the use of being one multilingual capability? Do you want all our students energies to be spent only to learn new languages? If you spend more time to learn new languages, when you can find time for innovations and discoveries?
India is knowledge based economy and mostly our job generation is happening in IT industry and other service sectors to get required foreign exchanges for our country.
Even China, a manufacturing giant is pushing its nationals to learn English to expand its markets and win friends to their side.
English is an international language which is must to communicate and learn the innovations from rest of the world.
How long you want the Hindi belt be in life support from center? Let us impose English on the Hindi belt and let them prosper to lead our country which would improve the social indicators of that region.
Political parties might support Hindi imposition on south for electoral gains by creating Hindi Pride.Liberal and Socialist like you also fallen to the Hindi Pride trap is neither good for the nation nor for democracy.
What benefits South Indians would get by learning another new language, Hindi. Will it provide new job opportunity? If it provides job, why Hindi belt is still under developed and majority of migration happening from Hindi belt to other part of the country.
I feel that you are suggesting all south Indians to learn Hindi so that migrated North Indians would feel comfortable to converse with locals. Is it fair? South Indians must learn Hindi either he wants to go North India for work or give Jobs to North Indians in South.
Many local languages were vanished in northern India only after India become Republic and world biggest democracy. Each language is bound with its centuries old own culture and larger literature than Hindi.
Do you want to disappear our identities too in the same way as it happened in the north for many languages? If a language is not used for generations then the language will be forgotten and disappear soon from the people memory.
I have been astonished for your honey coated opinion on many subjects but I felt another wicket fallen after Shekhar Gupta, through his post election opinion.
I surprised at your analogous that “Our education system is that street dog anyone can kick.”, I feel India is still a democracy and have to accommodate others feelings as well though it’s minor one.
Good hindi speaking capability alone is enough to make you the Prime Minister of India. Don’t fight it, use it.
I had a Tamil fellow colleague back in my college (in north india), who led a much better successful academic life than other south indian students in our batch. Only because he could speak Hindi, which he liked equally to his mother tongue.. In fact he started liking North India eventually.
I believe, We north indians would benefit heavily (more than the other way) if we learned south indian languages instead of brahmnical bullshit Sanskrit, which is obsolete and useless. That would have fostered a sense of synergic unity as well. I don’t know the jackass whose idea was to impose Sanskrit.
The dominance of English is market driven while that of Hindi is state driven. This resentment will disappear if large numbers of those in the North know at least one official language other than Hindi, or at least basic English. But of course the bhayyas can’t care less. Living in their own cocoons. I don’t think anyone from the North or even those speaking Hindi like languages have any right to comment on this issue. You don’t know what linguistic subalternity means.
Finally we know who the yo yo in Yo Yo Honey Singh is. Wah Yo Yo ji wah. Honey coated like always – we didn’t even realise when you coloured your robes saffron. Is it for petty gain or is there some real pressure on you. We Delhi students had great faith on you. What a sell out. Shame!
https://ramchandrapn.blogspot.com/2019/06/in-realm-of-will-and-should.html
How about instead of 3 language formula, you have a 1 language formula. One language which the student can choose to be educated in, whether regional language, mother tongue, English, Hindi, Urdu, Marati or any other international language. The student can CHOOSE if he wants a second or third language to study. Let each student or her family decide instead of some Govt which thinks it knows better. Lets see what citizens choose to learn instead of some compulsory mandate from a govt body.
Language is nothing but a means of communication and communication is something that has to be understood by both the communicator and the communicated. If you wrote this article in Hindi I would not have read it. If India wants to be in the Global map all Indians must learn English as it is the language of Global communication! Medium of education is in English because science & technology has advanced in English vocabulary! The problem here is more basic – India is not one Country – it is several Countries bound by Geography.
I had respect for the print but now the print has become BJP’s mouthpiece.
இந்த வார்த்தைகளை நீங்கள் புரிந்து கொண்டால், நாங்கள் ஏன் எதிர்க்கிறோம் என்று உங்களுக்குத் தெரியும்..
I ask Yogendra Yadav which south Indian language he can read and write.If he cannot which child of his or nephew/ niece of his can do so.
If not can he stop his sanctimonious crap
Excellent! He is but another bimaru state product Hindi chauvinist
Mr.Yogendra is clueless about the opposition from Tamil Nadu. For more than half a century two languages formula is practised there. So why should that state switch to a three languages formula Reality is people across classes desire good education with emphasis on English. For higher education English is most suitable and is lingua franca of science and technology. Mother tongue and English as languages is sufficient at school level. Students need training in communication, personality development, and, civic sense .
Yogendraji, what is new about this? For decades, I have observed that whenever the government proposes something, a hue and cry is raised by (A) an individual or a group of persons (B) one or more NGOs ( C ) one or more political party (D) Media and the government backtracks. Sometimes, all the above malcontents act in concert to thwart the government initiative. No attempt is made to appraise the facts and hold rational and meaningful discussion. To keep my comments brief, I will only give two examples: (1) Any move to amend the draconian Rent Control Act (2) Any move to break the stranglehold of IAS lobby and bring in experts from other All India Services and from outside the government.
The fear of imposition of Hindi and the fear of Hindutva among Muslims follow the same politics. Both misconceptions are manufactured for easy votes by politics. Both damages the peaceful living in India. Both have been sustained by politics for a long time now and both have become part of psyche of targeted people. If both of these bubble of misconceptions are to be busted, it will be by the people concerned only. For Muslims fear, Modi has taken the initiative. The next steps are to be taken by the Muslims. In case of Hindi imposition, the initiative have yet to come. Modi has only preempted the likely politics over Hindi. English dominance in India is a fact and there is no attempt from any side to lessen its dominance because it will mean recreation of India as a new nation with Hindi replacing English i. e. Hindi becomes the language of the constitution, the central laws, higher Education and local administrations.