wow..interesting topic..
lately i have been going through a lot of newspapers about how one mr. mulayam singh yadav has come up wiith a political agenda of banning English and computers.....(yea thath's true!!!)
Tough faced with staunch criticism from reputed people like Amartya Sen condemming it as regressive. Tough Singh's opposition to computers is not grounded in reality-as the march of technology is unstoppable but what about english...
what about it???
well yea we would all laugh off this idea as well but just maybe giving it a little serious consideration..
Language is not just a means of communications but also a representation of our cultural ethics and identity of our society. There is no harm in learning english or for that matter any other foriegn language as a window to the world, but should it be at the cost of ou own language...?????
If the world has become a global village, it does not mean that only one language should survive and rest should die. but unfortunately this is not the case.
At the latest language forum held by UNESCO..it was announced that 3000 of the 6000 laungages present in the world were on the verge of dissapearance
India on the other hand recognized as the most diverged linguistic nation in the world by UN, lists 196 languages in India on the verge of extinction.If the trend continues the world would be robbed of it's diversity.
According to latest Atlas of world languages, over 200 languages have dissapeared over the last three generations and of the endangered languages 200 have less than 10 speakers and around 175 have between 10 and 50
From these facts what i want to say is that with loss of a language leads to loss of culture, heritage of traditions.
There's been an attempt to pass of english," language of elite" on masses in the name it being a link language to the world. There is a growing misconception that English is the language of wisdom and great prosperity.
Our Indian culture and languages had spread across the world when english was not even heard of in this region. Let's talk countries like Germany, Japan, China who progressed without learning English. Even today in major parts of Europe English is an alien language to the masses.
Countries like Japan preserved their native language by sourcing whatever books came in from trade ships and translating them and spreading it among the masses, this way they gained information from overseas and preserved their own language and culture.
In the end would just like to say that just to be able to march towards the connected world's beat, we can't afford to privilege English over our native tongues..
!!PEACE!!
lately i have been going through a lot of newspapers about how one mr. mulayam singh yadav has come up wiith a political agenda of banning English and computers.....(yea thath's true!!!)
Tough faced with staunch criticism from reputed people like Amartya Sen condemming it as regressive. Tough Singh's opposition to computers is not grounded in reality-as the march of technology is unstoppable but what about english...
what about it???
well yea we would all laugh off this idea as well but just maybe giving it a little serious consideration..
Language is not just a means of communications but also a representation of our cultural ethics and identity of our society. There is no harm in learning english or for that matter any other foriegn language as a window to the world, but should it be at the cost of ou own language...?????
If the world has become a global village, it does not mean that only one language should survive and rest should die. but unfortunately this is not the case.
At the latest language forum held by UNESCO..it was announced that 3000 of the 6000 laungages present in the world were on the verge of dissapearance
India on the other hand recognized as the most diverged linguistic nation in the world by UN, lists 196 languages in India on the verge of extinction.If the trend continues the world would be robbed of it's diversity.
According to latest Atlas of world languages, over 200 languages have dissapeared over the last three generations and of the endangered languages 200 have less than 10 speakers and around 175 have between 10 and 50
From these facts what i want to say is that with loss of a language leads to loss of culture, heritage of traditions.
There's been an attempt to pass of english," language of elite" on masses in the name it being a link language to the world. There is a growing misconception that English is the language of wisdom and great prosperity.
Our Indian culture and languages had spread across the world when english was not even heard of in this region. Let's talk countries like Germany, Japan, China who progressed without learning English. Even today in major parts of Europe English is an alien language to the masses.
Countries like Japan preserved their native language by sourcing whatever books came in from trade ships and translating them and spreading it among the masses, this way they gained information from overseas and preserved their own language and culture.
In the end would just like to say that just to be able to march towards the connected world's beat, we can't afford to privilege English over our native tongues..
!!PEACE!!
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