[kome]

Very interesting article, thank you... Gandhi used to say: "To give millions a knowledge of English is to enslave them" [1], because "We ignorantly adhere to their cast-off systems" based on education and status.

That's so true. I am happy to see businessmen and businesswomen that are really starting to grasp the concept, without naming it.

[1] http://www.swaraj.org/shikshantar/resources_gandhi.html

[ittekimasu]

See, homo economicuses don't care whether cultures or languages die; you can see this in the above "translation is not economically feasible .." sermons. While that may indeed be true, the thing though is that with such deep linguistic apartheid, the market and purchasing power in India will essentially be limited to the colonial class - with a mass of underlings bearing the currency and its inflationary forces.

Once the regime inflates itself out of existence for the sake of all those suckling on taxes, revolution comes and all the nuts the squirrel accumulates now will flee him. Like Mao's murdering mobs, that can bring great destruction.

The horizon of the homo economicus, I fear, is not quite as far ahead as some of us, nor is the French revolution as far behind.