Re: brits must pay for the restoration of hindu civilization and culture

On Sep 23, 9:24 am, hari.ku...@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
"I was not talking about just one state, or one region, or a few
groups
supporting the vernacular for higher education, in isolation.
=A0Without
doubt, they would be a minority and discriminated against. I was
talking
about *all* states teaching the vernacular for higher studies, by
Central Govt. fiat."

That would be english wouldn't it? =A0It is already the de facto
language
of business and education and government etc. and one of the reasons
india could enter international id based business so easily.

"No, it would be Bengali in Bengal, Hindi in Bihar, UP, Tamil in
TamilNad and so on. Only a very few go into international business, and
they are smart people who could learn English or any other foreign
language on their own." "

Parents are striving to have their children learn english for the
obvious advantage it gives them.  The outsourcing jobs india now has is
because there was an english speaking trained under employed population.

They are thus reconciled to second rateness, a "gift" from Macaulay.
They may even embrace it, for it does give benefits, to the empowered
Indians - as in the past, under direct British rule. I have no doubt
that with the current dispensation, this will continue. Perhaps
indefinitely. But then, things change! Who thought in the early
1900s that direct British rule would disappear from India?

English would short cut all the language based conflicts if it were
taught in addition to the local languages.  

Evidently, no. English education is only a barrier for those who have
been first taught in the vernacular. It has created a race of snobs,
alienated from the vernacular speaking masses. It is a continuation
of an evil and arbitrary imposition, which must be abolished. The
sooner the better, but there should be a carefully planned, phased
methodology involved so that the transition is done with minimum fuss.


All the hundreds of local
languages could persist and still all could have national wide access to
the same language as all other citizens.

It is not necessary that every Indian Bengali talks to every Indian
Keralite in English alone. They could talk in Bengali (if the
Keralite knew Bengali) or Malayali (if the Bengali knew Malayali) or
French (if they both knew French), if the very few among those who had
to interact, had to interact.

In europe this is very much the case, english is widely spoken and used
and taught to all students from an early age.

In some Scandinavian countries, only. In most European countries,
they speak their own language first and have higher education in their
own language. For the sake of tourism and jobs, many among them do
know English up to a point. English is never seen as a barrier to
their development, as it is in India. A talented person who is good
in the vernacular, is barred from progress simply because his English
is not good enough, *in India*. I have seen so many times, how those
whose English is passable, look down very much upon, even regard as
subhuman, those Indians who speak in the vernacular, or whose spoken
English is not that good (their written English may well be far better
than those who sneer at them for their spoken English).

Arindam Banerjee

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