Wednesday, January 17, 2007

India's language problem

India is the only country where the citizens visiting a neighboring state become foreigners in their own land. Indian currency is the only currency in the world to be inscribed with multiple languages. Besides religion and caste, its languages divide India. Divide and rule was once used by British to rule India and it is still used by many politicians.

Besides the infrastructure, we are obliged to the British for providing us with a new language. India has an edge over countries like Japan and China for not having an English translating service in major industries. English language is helping information technology, medicine, engineering and various other sectors to prosper. Otherwise, we would have installed decades ago, a translation mechanism for our numerous languages.

The beauty of our democracy is that everyone has rights to learn and speak any language of their choice. It is an infringement of our civil rights when we are forced to boycott English. It is time to boycott such calls.

1 comment:

Ponnarasi Kothandaraman said...

Hahaha..Rombavey unamayana post ;)