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> 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

> 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZwq4JnCZ4A http://sankrant.org/2011/03/the-english-class-system-2/ http://sankrant.org/2011/03/the-english-class-system-2/

amitsy 10y 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.
- gnipgnip 10y 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-colonial-experience-of-indian-intellectuals/ http://www.hipkapi.com/2011/04/02/mantras-of-anti-brahmanism... [2] https://archive.org/details/DharampalCollectedWritingsIn5Volumes https://archive.org/details/DharampalCollectedWritingsIn5Vol...

amitsy 10y 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.

gnipgnip 10y 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-colonial-experience-of-indian-intellectuals/ http://www.hipkapi.com/2011/04/02/mantras-of-anti-brahmanism... [2] https://archive.org/details/DharampalCollectedWritingsIn5Volumes https://archive.org/details/DharampalCollectedWritingsIn5Vol...