Re: New pronunciation of Bangalore


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Engineering Education in Tamil

Many students in Tamil Nadu find it difficult to study engineering with
English as medium of instruction. (cut)
... The Indian government blocked it.

Many thanks for that blood-boiling story. The reason given by the
Indian government is patently false (as well as stupid) as a model
program in one state language, if successful, would probably inspire
other states to follow suit. I think _this_ (and not Hindimania) are
the real culprits.
I hope they haven't given up and will keep trying. The fact that the
effort existed makes me feel better.

(warning: inflammatory theorising follows)

India as a single country (as opposed to a EU-ish multinational
organization) is not the most ... rational idea going, and I'm sure the
Indian government realizes this and takes great pains to try to keep
most Indians from realizing it as well.

With my modest background in figuring out skullduggery and
double-dealing, it looks to me like the Indian government could care
less about Hindi but uses it to distract the population from their real
language policy which is to promote English at the expense of state
languages.

In realistic terms state langauges were the big winners in linguistic
competition in the years after independence especially after the
redrawing of state boundaries along language lines.
But should they grow too strong, demands for autonomy and even
independence
could follow. By pretending to push Hindi, the governtment ensures that
English (the means of uniting the ungainly entity of India in the first
place) gains and state languages (including Hindi) lose.

That's just my perception, please correct my ignorance if it seems
really wrong.

-michael farris

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