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Notice how you need English education to even comment on forums like these. Now if you don't know English you just get filtered out of a lot of big things in th

by kamaal 7y ago

Notice how you need English education to even comment on forums like these. Now if you don't know English you just get filtered out of a lot of big things in this age. There is little you can do about it, because the west got ahead a few centuries during the industrial/renaissance age. Don't blame west for anything, because our country was reasonably well off. It has warm tropical weather with 12 hours of sunlight, and plenty of water with fertile soil. Plus we didn't have those bubonic plagues. Despite this the kings here barely did anything on the human resources end. Heck there isn't even a remote concept of social equity in India. Local languages can't show any miracles because you can't do any serious training or academic work with them.

iamshs 7y ago
The pejorative 'Macaulay's Children' should have given ample idea to where his comment was heading, and it did not disappoint.
codeisawesome 7y ago
This is a lot of self hate. The west got ahead in the colonial era, not just the industrial era. We had plenty of empires that worked on developing the country such as Mauryan, Maratha etc. I very much agree that a strong command over English is the only thing that can help someone in this country if they’re not born massively advantaged; but there is no need for un-true self-laceration. If I could go back in time I would definitely smack some emperors around the head for not being more exploratory on the Naval front - but our very fertile soil was our undoing - much like China, no need to go anywhere if agriculture is highly viable right where you are, and foreigners come to YOU looking to buy the nice stuff you grow (spices).
- kamaal 7y ago
  What I wrote is a brutal self appraisal of the reality we are living through. Where we stand is a direct consequence of what we have done in the past. To verify it all we have to do is see where are today. Sorry if this offends you. But this is the reality.
  - sifar 7y ago
    You didn't do anything in the past. People from the past are not here now. You found yourself here as an accident of birth and are now aware of where you are and maybe how it came to be. Now decide where you want to go from here, just like the countless before you have done - leading to you being here. P.S : This is more as a note to self :).

by kamaal 7y ago

iamshs 7y ago

The pejorative 'Macaulay's Children' should have given ample idea to where his comment was heading, and it did not disappoint.

codeisawesome 7y ago

This is a lot of self hate. The west got ahead in the colonial era, not just the industrial era. We had plenty of empires that worked on developing the country such as Mauryan, Maratha etc. I very much agree that a strong command over English is the only thing that can help someone in this country if they’re not born massively advantaged; but there is no need for un-true self-laceration. If I could go back in time I would definitely smack some emperors around the head for not being more exploratory on the Naval front - but our very fertile soil was our undoing - much like China, no need to go anywhere if agriculture is highly viable right where you are, and foreigners come to YOU looking to buy the nice stuff you grow (spices).

kamaal 7y ago
What I wrote is a brutal self appraisal of the reality we are living through. Where we stand is a direct consequence of what we have done in the past. To verify it all we have to do is see where are today. Sorry if this offends you. But this is the reality.
- sifar 7y ago
  You didn't do anything in the past. People from the past are not here now. You found yourself here as an accident of birth and are now aware of where you are and maybe how it came to be. Now decide where you want to go from here, just like the countless before you have done - leading to you being here. P.S : This is more as a note to self :).