English, Ticklish

December 14, 2014 01:39 am | Updated December 04, 2021 11:36 pm IST

What the Sangh affiliates offer as an alternative to the elitism of English is a Sanskritised version of Hindi that is more in the nature of competitve elitism than anti-elitism.

 

>English, ticklish

With English becoming the global language of commerce and communication, greater stress should be laid on the way the language is taught rather than on creating meaningless controversies.

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>Hindi is still a thorn in Tamil Nadu's flesh

But people's animosity towards the language has mellowed over the years.

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>Global ambitions in search of language tools

Aspiration for English education seems out of sync with the politics of linguistic identity.

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