BJP chief claims English bad for India, triggers outrage

[Omtatsat]

Are u for Real ... I am a South Indian and i am not a Dravidian ... All South Indian and all Indian languages has its origin from Sanskrit ... apart from that most world languages has hired many thing from Sanskrit ...

Err.......... I was gently referring to TN.

 

[Nair saab]

BJP should declare Mumbai as Capital,Marathi as a national language and Rakhi savant as mother of the nation, i am sure bapu wont mind.

Perhaps Has Kangress has Already Their Maatamatama Gandi as father of Nation after Independence ... Soon SOnia GAND...i as Mother of Nation and Rahul Gandi as Child of the Nation...

 

[livingdead]

Well, in europe, every country has courses in its own language, and the graduates work in their own country.

Guess what ? Polish graduates work in polish.

Bulgarian graduates work in bulgarian.

Spanish graduates work in spanish.

And so on.

It really isn't difficult.

If I have to work within my state, for most jobs, the local language is essential. But if I have to work in cities where workforce is from all over India, not everyone will understand me,Hence English (if not hindi). India does not have a single language unlike poles, germans or bulgarians.

 

[Nair saab]

Err.......... I was gently referring to TN.

No one has Problem with Sanskrit being the National Language offcorse apart from the Seculars and the Minority ...

 

[Skull and Bones]

No one has Problem with Sanskrit being the National Language offcorse apart from the Seculars and the Minority ...

The problem doesn't lie in Sanskrit or Hindi being the national language, the problem being some segment of the society refusing to adapt and learn a language. I can vouch, a large part of Tamil doesn't know Hindi, and even if they know, will be reluctant to use it.

 

[Aka123]

No one has Problem with Sanskrit being the National Language offcorse apart from the Seculars and the Minority ...

Sanskrit as National Language.....

Bdw Tamil doesn't originate from Sanskrit.

 

[Shankranthi]

The problem doesn't lie in Sanskrit or Hindi being the national language, the problem being some segment of the society refusing to adapt and learn a language. I can vouch, a large part of Tamil doesn't know Hindi, and even if they know, will be reluctant to use it.

What is wrong if Tamil people are reluctant to learn hindi and use it ? .....Do the north Indians learn Tamil ?

In fact most states in south India teach 3 languages in school. (English, Hindi & Regional language)

Why is only 2 language taught in North Indian schools ? (English & Hindi)

 

[Skull and Bones]

What is wrong if Tamil people are reluctant to learn hindi and use it ? .....Do the north Indians learn Tamil ?

In fact most states in south India teach 3 languages in school. (English, Hindi & Regional language)

Why is only 2 language taught in North Indian schools ? (English & Hindi)

No, we have been taught 3 languages, (Bengali as regional, Hindi and English), so if Hindi being common in both North and South India, then why this reluctance?

Hence i said, if all segment is reluctant to use any other language as a de facto language, then best of luck finding a Language of Pan National communication as a replacement of English.

 

[Aka123]

English is the best language to unite India. No other National Language required.

 

[Omtatsat]

What is wrong if Tamil people are reluctant to learn hindi and use it ? .....Do the north Indians learn Tamil ?

In fact most states in south India teach 3 languages in school. (English, Hindi & Regional language)

Why is only 2 language taught in North Indian schools ? (English & Hindi)

Schools in North India also follow the three, or even 4, language formula.

Generally, it is Hindi, English and Sanskrit... But for the 4th, they have allowed foreign languages such as German, French etc which I feel is Wrong.........

My son learns Hindi, English, Sanskrit and Bangla... Tamil and Telugu are also available..

North Indians must learn a south Indian language I feel.

 

[Skull and Bones]

English is the best language for India. No other National Language required.

That's very easy for us to say, what about them who can't afford the privilege to learn this Language?

 

[Jaggu]

No one has Problem with Sanskrit being the National Language offcorse apart from the Seculars and the Minority ...

One must look nor further than Israel. The Jews have managed to revive a dead language i.e. Hebrew and have made it the national language. Even though the Jews there are mostly European yet they did not implement a European language. But sadly this is not the case in India. The British have left, but their slaves still remain in India. Today if you cannot speak English you cannot join the Indian army as an officer. This is not the criteria in any other non English speaking country. If you don't know English in Inda, you are regarded as backward or unread.

 

[Aka123]

That's very easy for us to say, what about them who can't afford the privilege to learn this Language?

If you look in that way, then it's very difficult to find another language which will maintain a homogeneity. There are so vast number of distinct communities in India speaking different languages. How will bring everyone at the same level, by choosing a common language and teaching them. It's not feasible. At least English is a Language currently known to people from all over the country.

Regarding 'privilege to learn this Language', if you say, that's where India has to work, rather than working on National Language. We have push down our poverty level, which is currently affecting India's growth a lot!

 

[fsayed]

Why should the sthan of the Hindus not have sthan for sikhs, parsi's and christians ? ................you are mistaking Muslim Sthan with Hindu sthan.

b in ur limit dont give me badwords blank line teri .............. mera ............ tit for tat

 

[Shankranthi]

English is the best language to unite India. No other National Language required.

There is a new innovative path being researched .........

IIT prof writes one script to unify 22 languages

India has 22 official languages. Schools teach in 58 different languages. There are newspapers in 87 languages. And, about a dozen major scripts are used to communicate in these languages.

Though the country once boasted about this linguistic complexity, people have since found that it poses barriers to effective communication.

An ideal situation would be the use of a single language across India, but researchers feel that it is too ambitious a project. "There are impossible difficulties to creating a unified language in India, not least because of the huge emotional component," said V Srinivas Chakravarthy, an IIT-Madras professor. A simpler goal would be to figure out a unified script that can convey information in all Indian languages, said the professor of biotechnology, whose work spans computational neuroscience and pattern recognition.

Chakravarthy has drawn up one such script that he calls Bharati, which can be used for regular writing and can be learnt easily. "Anyone who knows one of the major Indian scripts can learn Bharati script in an hour," said Chakravarthy, who has applied for a patent for the Bharati script.

Most Indian alphabet systems are organised as vowels and consonants; Bharati follows this pattern without the elaborate flourish. The script combines the simplest features of several existing scripts to come up with a new one that is logical and simple.

Chakravarthy said English is arbitrary. "There is no logic to why A comes first and Z last. Indian scripts are logical," he said. "But, they are also unreasonably complicated and ornate."

For instance, he said, the long form of the alphabet that makes the sound 'ah' in the Devanagiri/Hindi script is written by adding a vertical bar to produce the sound 'aah'. The long form of the alphabet making the sound 'e' is written by adding a hook to make the 'ee' sound.

"Why should we have so many different conventions just to denote the long version of a vowel?" said Chakravarthy. He studied these inconsistencies and made sure that the Bharati alphabets follow a consistent design.

Experts welcome the initiative, saying Indian languages had a lot of shared words. "It's a good attempt that can bring people together. But, whether people, politicians or teachers like me will let it happen is a different thing," said S C Chaudhary, member of the Indian Linguistic Association in Pune. He hoped that the effort would put an end to the domination of English, which is threatening to overtake all other languages.

Awadesh Kumar Mishra, director of Central Institute of Indian Languages in Mysore, said such a script would be useful for the average Indian, who is likely to know just one language. The Technology Development for Indian Languages programme, initiated by the ministry of communication and information technology, is making a similar attempt to facilitate human-machine interaction without a language barrier, he said.

Chakravarthy's script has immediate application in signs, especially at tourist attractions. Bharati can be developed into an online handwriting recognition system for Indian languages on smartphones and PDAs because it can be used to help develop better algorithms to recognise all languages.