English is spoken by the elite and technologically & culturally advanced & successful people around the world. Total English speakers are about 500 million worldwide and another 500 million can understand and speak to a certain extent.
For example, 600 million people speak or know Hindi in India, but what is the use? You go to North India and see: most Hindi speakers are treacherous and criminal, with poor manners. Then you see in South India people behave better comparatively. English knowledge is one of the reasons. Over 70% of those who go abroad are South Indians.
HindiMaadharChodhs are mostly criminals and ruffians; they barge into reserved compartments even during night time in North India, such a thing rarely happens in south. For instance, over 20% Hindi speakers AreMaadharChodhs, but that rate is less than 1% in South India.
So I suggest that Hindi should be removed (or minimized in) in all official communications and literature as far as possible, and English should be encouraged. In govt schools form 1st to 5th class teach only English, local language ad Maths. Science can be from 6th class and teach just brief history (most history we read in India is fiction, because no one knows what happened before 1000 AD).
I am surprised how Editor of this portal published such a interview without finding the fact and truth about India and our Culture. Solely If the interviewee is a son of some famous personality.
“There had been various kingdoms and rulers that had ruled parts of India, the majority of India, even the whole of India, but there was never really a concept of India as a national entity”--If Mr. Masani is saying so than he has no idea of India rather BHARAT VARSH OR ARAYAVARTA I think most of Parsi have less knowledge of Indian history they know more of England and Europe. That is why English were referring to Parsi as English among Indian. Now a day’s even they don't know nuances of Indian society, the rural life the Hindu Dharma, the rural culture, They don’t know about Maha- Bharat and Maurayan Period or Golden Age of Gupta Period and their map of Bharat varsha the Emperor Ashok and map his kingdom. What he talking is just before the English came to India. The Parsi are western in thought they love western classical music and only want live in Bombay not in Mumbai.
English and its culture is gasping wind and near extinction; India is bare essential for its survival; Hence all the propaganda; Only 11 countries, 05% of world-pops , 0.04% of world-literature and 0.02% of world-sciences are in ENGLISH and easily understandable how dark the threat is in the present global-scenario ; Hence all the false-propaganda all around are all time louder !!!!
Re: no surprise
by pradeep kumar on Oct 30, 2013 03:30 PM
When Indian won the Central Asian land and Emperor Ashok has send his Son Mahendra and daughter Sanghamitra to Sri Lanka then our Language were Sanskrit and Pali not hindi.Please brush up your history and GK.
Re: no surprise
by Setu Madhavan on Oct 30, 2013 09:26 AM
Indians never conquered the world, but Rajendra chola, Rajaraja chola and other Kings from Tamil Nadu and Chera kings from what is today Kerala, conquered and ruled Modern day Indonesia, Malaysia,Singapore, Thailand etc. That explains the high prevalence of the Tamil influence in the culture, architecture, and language in these countries. Singapore has Tamil as one of their national languages. Malayasia has a very large Tamil population to this day thanks to the exodus centuries ago.
Not one Hindi speaking ruler ever conquered a foreign land, though all of them hindi speaking kings eventually got conquered by foreign invaders.
Re: Re: no surprise
by pradeep kumar on Oct 30, 2013 03:26 PM
You should check the Map of Emperor Ashok and find our how far his kingdom waw in 230 BC.Rest you can goggle at reffer a good History book.
Re: Re: Re: no surprise
by Setu Madhavan on Feb 11, 2014 11:43 AM
You need to refresh your knowledge of history. Ashoka never conquered any land outside of 'Akhand Bharat'. All he did was win over some kingdoms within Akhand Bharat. Taxila and Modern Day Afghanistan were part of 'Akhand Bharat'. If you are under the impression that Emperor Ashoka conquered China or Australia or Egypt then please let me know what you are smoking so I too can have some of it.
On the other hand kings and princes from foreign nations jumped on horseback and galloped to India and conquered large kingdoms even though kings in India had large garrisons and armies with forts and fortresses and logistics all locally available. Whether it was Alexander, or Persians, Mughals, Afghans, they came on horsebacks and plundered opulent kingdoms despite being outnumbered by the large armies of the local kings and emperors in India.
The only Indian Kings who went outside the boundaries of what was 'Akhand Bharat' and conquered nations and ruled there were the Cholas and Cheras. End of Story.
Re: Re: no surprise
by pradeep kumar on Oct 30, 2013 03:32 PM | Hide message
Please brush-up your GK and History than come to field for debate or discussion.
Re: Re: no surprise
by AK on Oct 30, 2013 09:54 AM
Very true. Thats probably because of the frog in the well attitude, which still continues with many from those parts of Inida - I know only Hindi, so the whole of India must be speaking Hindi.
Re: no surprise
by ashok mody on Sep 06, 2016 12:56 PM
Not correct. Hindi is not the only Indian language. Countries in the south east of India have accepted influence of Tamil. There are countries where there is some influence of Gujarati. This is not by reason of conquest but because of practical requirement. Language is for the convenience of people and not vice versa. Languages have come and gone in India and elsewhere. Languages have changed and adapted according to the requirement of people. They should not be forced on anybody. If we suppress the most important language in the world, it is we who would suffer. Well to do people will study abroad and work there or get better employment in India than those not ell versed in English. Only poor will suffer.
Re: no surprise
by Kanu Singh on Mar 24, 2013 03:33 AM
Arabs did tried to conquer the world and are still trying, but problem is Englishmen got better proposition.
Arabs only want others to be their slave, praise them all the time and do their dirty work without questions. If an Arab owner want, he might think about paying you and if he get too excited he might pay you with his little one.
On top of that, if you complain about sexual harassment, you might be stoned to death for obstructing the Intercourse of Justice by the most Supreme race, as declared by some Creator guy.
On the other hand Englishmen proposition is, believe in whatever or do whatever, as long as you are not unreasonably disturbing us and following the Common law, its fine with us, and their Common law is same for citizens and visitors alike, no discrimination their.
If everyone take sides and still things are balanced on a sharp edge and only one bird is left to land, then the bird might choose to land on the side which got better proposition for everyone and thus tip the balance.
Moving on, some people criticizing English on these boards by writing in English. Although you guys hate English but to get your message across you have to learn English. Similarly other people also might have something to say, So Why stop them from learning something to reach their audience without corruption ?
Interpreters may not always be honest, if their is an opportunity, they might deliberately try to create misunderstanding between people for their own selfish gains.
Re: Re: Re: no surprise
by Kanu Singh on Mar 25, 2013 11:21 AM
Google translator don’t do translation by itself, it require people knowing two different languages to build the code.
If suppose only people working for Google knows two languages, How can you be sure that they will not cheat ?
Human have weaknesses and temptations, political, religious leanings, likes and dislikes, someone might make a little error today for his little gains. If there is no one out their to cross reference and people blindly follow Google translator for thousands of years, then potentially that error could amplify itself into a world threatening confusion.
Re: Re: no surprise
by surya on Oct 29, 2013 08:24 PM
"you might be stoned to death for obstructing the Intercourse of Justice by the most Supreme race" Awesome.....super and a clap for this sentence.
Re: Re: Re: no surprise
by Ram Lakhan on Oct 30, 2013 10:35 AM
IT SEEMS BRUTAL BUT. BUT TO STOP RAPE IN EVERY 23 MINUTES SOME BRUTAL PUNISHMENT SHOULD BE THERE. THEN SEE THE RESULT.
what ever the readers may say, had the English has not be accepted, our communication system could have suffered badly, english connected us with the rest of the world. This is the bright side of a 'coin'
Re: English in India
by Jena Bharati on Mar 23, 2013 07:06 PM
oh really. what language is used saud-joints?what language tulsidas used- an great education tool in art and language ?
be preeminent in emphasis , and and english may provide access to that knowledge that you may choose to seek. India isa very plural society where every state has its own language that ties to its century-old traditions, and english could be very helpful in translating that knowledge and preserving it in e-media. superficial mimicary is uterly ugly.
