Very well said. For a student to graduate from an American high schools requires passing a foreign language (French, Spanish or Japanese or any other language) course. I agree that India has immensely benefitted from English rule. We are on the world stage because of our proficiency in English. All the talk about our rich ancient heritage and legacy amounts to cultural hara-kiri. It is rather sad that we keep living in our ancient colorful cultural Disneyland of +460 Gods and Goddesses, meaningless rites, rituals and traditions. All of them with their combined force have not been able to bring monsoon or enough rain on time. It reminds me of the movie Guide and how we take refuge in the divine. In most of the Malaysian peeninsula the rains arrives without performing any Yagna, puja or sacrifice. In Thailand, it has been raining off and on since last month; no rituals, no puja, no nothing. I do not mean to undermine the faith of the people in our their daily spritual routines but a bit of reasoning will make our lives better.
It is time for us to stop using the cultural camouflage to feel safer or secure. Their no security in ignorance, more so, when it is used as a rope to hang on to. More language learning, more travelling and more exposure to the world outside our comfort zone is the only way to find our strengths and weaknesses, or for that matter, finding our bliss.
Kuldeep Nagi, PhD66-846374466
Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 7:39 PM
To: join_mtc@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: [MTC Global] ENGLISH is the link language
I believe, the larger point is missed in taking narrower view of the suggestion.
I am not saying that English is the ONLY language that one may study and live by for life ! We studied Eng, Hindi, Gujarati and Sanskrit and barring the last one, have definite love and proficiency in all other 3 languages !!
Notwithstanding the ulterior motives of the foreigners who came to India, English has surely integrated us with rest of the world in far better manner than others (say China, Pak, Sri Lanka, LatAm or African countries). Good part of our current global identity comes from stalwarts (scientists, engineers, doctors, IT professionals, Artists etc) who were at equal ease with English and also individual mother tongues !
While we must be proud of our rich cultural heritage (language being one of that), there is no way higher studies or professional pursuits are feasible in any of the regional languages ! Not paying attention to the need-of-the-hour, if we keep hiding our handicap under cultural camouflage, it is likely to misguide the next generation. ….. and I repeat, Pl Learn any foreign language – not necessarily only English … Cheers !!
Kalpen
Not at all!
History shows there was never one country called Bharat-India .We were and still are a silo of a country.Our states are the confluence of the many different cultures that went through her lands. So how could we have,practically, one language? And to always remember doing a one language formula would have been at the cost of many ancient languages losing their identity-Tamil,Telugu ,Malayalam.....
and then comes an invader? -trader? who for their survival introduce a language and make it an emotional appeal: the pride of speaking and writing in English.those who grabbed the opportunity rose.
Rest assured, we are likely to ruin the new generations (and their future opportunities) if we shunned English and decided to revert to parochial regional mindset….. unfortunately, have seen best of brains struggling at IIT and IIM due to inadequate proficiency in this language and have seen even larger number losing out on opportunities in the Corporate world …. Choice is clear, I believe ….
an absolute truth and reality
Usha K Sankar
President
Co.Re Foundation
Partner
Tugboat Consulting and Marketing Services LLP
What is to be does not necessarily have to be.
Let go or get dragged
On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 2:56 PM, kalpen shukla <kalpenshukla@hotmail.com> wrote:
Isn't it amusing (and ironical too) that, in this multi-faceted country with one of the oldest civilizations, the only concept that enjoys national character and offers a common platform for communication is a foreign language – English !
When we talk of global opportunities and world as boundary-less market, we must also integrate ourselves with the rest. The 2nd language need not be only English, and it can be any other popular language(s) – incl Chinese ….
Rest assured, we are likely to ruin the new generations (and their future opportunities) if we shunned English and decided to revert to parochial regional mindset….. unfortunately, have seen best of brains struggling at IIT and IIM due to inadequate proficiency in this language and have seen even larger number losing out on opportunities in the Corporate world …. Choice is clear, I believe ….
Kalpen
From: join_mtc@googlegroups.com [mailto:join_mtc@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Usha Gowri
Sent: 03 June 2017 PM 12:50
To: join_mtc@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [MTC Global] Mumbai schoolteacher forced to sell idlis on streets for a living
Unfortunately and much to the chagrin of many ENGLISH is the link language esp for those of us who come from the South.It is more a survival factor than fashion
and very unfortunately we can insist that we read and write in MTs-it is good but it would like the real life story of a Government official in Kerala receiving a letter from the Central Government i Hindi and responding to it in Malayalam.He did right didn't he?
Language learning should be based on reality.WE can call ourselves ready to shift when we have enough vocabulary of tech and mgt in these languages.I am witness to a paper reading session by a hardcore MT language fanatic-he read the paper but did not know most of the word in it because they were Tamil words for regularly used English words.Hilarious to put it mildly.
Even if we convert it is still the educated who need to make the shift-the ones who dont go to school never have a problem
g
Usha K Sankar
President
Co.Re Foundation
Partner
Tugboat Consulting and Marketing Services LLP
What is to be does not necessarily have to be.
Let go or get dragged
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