Mahayuti backtracked on resolution mandating Hindi as default 3rd language in govt schools across Maharashtra. Reversal had more to do with political compulsions than education policy.
Even after the spate of anti-Hindi agitations of the 1960s and 1970s in neighbouring Tamil Nadu, Kerala was open to the prospect of Hindi becoming the ‘national’ language.
The new campaign revolves around the theme of “acts of kindness” and encourages people to look beyond their differences. It manages to capture the essence of unity in linguistic diversity.
Tamil Nadu govt has been refusing to sign an MoU with Centre to implement PM-Shri, citing objections to the 'imposition of the three-language formula'.
The new National Education Policy says the freedom to choose the two Indian languages as part of the formula should be left to the states, regions or students.
Historically, football has been used as a lens through which political anger, identity, and resistance come into focus. From Mohun Bagan to Didier Drogba’s Ivory Coast, this claim can be easily cemented.
French newspaper La Tribune earlier last week indicated that UAE withdrew from deal to fund EUR 3.5 billion. India is looking to order 114 new Rafales, which could include the F5.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
(Writing in English because the article is in English)
“English is the real official language of India” – funnily I made a similar remark several years ago – “English is the real national language of India.”
Everything in society and polity, including the Constitution itself, privileges English over all our languages. If anyone is responsible for not respecting not just Hindi, but any other Bharatiya language, it is squarely we the people who have shamelessly adopted a foreign language as superior to our own – whether “own” = Hindi, Thamizh, Sanskrit, Bangla, or any other.
Also problematic is how it is stupidly “uncool” to use our own languages. Although nothing is as “cool” as English in popular perception, interestingly Urdu gets a better place here, as it is still considered somewhat “cooler” than the rustic “dehati zaban” – a blanket term used for all Bharatiya languages in Urdu’s geographic proximity.
(Writing in English because the article is in English)
“English is the real official language of India” – funnily I made a similar remark several years ago – “English is the real national language of India.”
Everything in society and polity, including the Constitution itself, privileges English over all our languages. If anyone is responsible for not respecting not just Hindi, but any other Bharatiya language, it is squarely we the people who have shamelessly adopted a foreign language as superior to our own – whether “own” = Hindi, Thamizh, Sanskrit, Bangla, or any other.
Also problematic is how it is stupidly “uncool” to use our own languages. Although nothing is as “cool” as English in popular perception, interestingly Urdu gets a better place here, as it is still considered somewhat “cooler” than the rustic “dehati zaban” – a blanket term used for all Bharatiya languages in Urdu’s geographic proximity.