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by amitsy 3472 days ago
Great points you made. Agree with the fact that Swarachakra is too crowded and huge scope of improvement there. Also agree that the root of problem lie with education and state policies. But even with the huge push that english gets in this country, the reality is more than billion people don't understand it. This might still become 500 million is a decade but still half the country is being denied of internet.

Didn't know about Sailfish. Will check it out.
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gnipgnip 3472 days ago
> This might still become 500 million is a decade but still half the country is being denied of internet.

Perhaps, but to paraphrase a comment in the attached thread, I'd be more worried about feeding the cow before milking it. I mean, for a linguistic population comparable to native English speaking population of the entire world, there exists not a single school teaching Engineering of Medicine in Hindi (not to speak of other far older languages) - these people barely have any money to subsist on on average (and arguably also why medicine and infrastructure suck).

Also see,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZwq4JnCZ4A

http://sankrant.org/2011/03/the-english-class-system-2/

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amitsy 3472 days ago
Completely agree with you on this one. The situation is much more worse than what we living in a bubble imagine. The video really touches your heart. Reminds me of a couple of my friends in my college, and the struggle they went through - Shifting from one language to another.
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gnipgnip 3472 days ago
The bubble thing is very real.

Isn't it interesting then that all our intelligensia is engaged in the whole apochryphal "caste-system" narrative [1] [2], while essentially being the gate keepers of a state/violence sanctioned system of linguistic apartheid ?

Even Chomsky, when questioned about his accomplice Roy, seemed perfectly okay with the current state of things. My entire schooling/conditioning has been turned on its head - I can't recommend S N Balagangadhara & Dharampal's works enough.

[1] http://www.hipkapi.com/2011/04/02/mantras-of-anti-brahmanism...

[2] https://archive.org/details/DharampalCollectedWritingsIn5Vol...

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