...Why are we slave of English? ...after independence, i think It was officially announced that Hindi would replace English but Britishers have sown its seeds so deeply that it could not be done so easily. Hence it was decided that hindi would be introduced gradually but I think our government is so slow that 64 years have passed but till now no one is able to study in hindi till graduation. No country except some poor like India give importance to English........Take example of China, Korea and Japan....where no one learnsenglish like Indians who treat english speakers highly qualified.
We all are slave of English and we can free ourselves from this only when ourCountry become independent. I think Service sector contributes around 60 percent to GDP and major portion of service sector includeIT & BPO for which we depend on other countries.Government is boasting of developmet but the innocent ppl of india dont know at what cost the currentdevelopment is happening? Government takes too much debt from outside for development. Also the black money of indians(what is deposisted into Swiss banks etc.) gets into country again by way of FDI. It is a good development and we are on right track of becomingself-sufficient.I think there is no escape from slavery of English. This would remain in our country forever.
Dear Dagar bhai,
I disagree to first half of your post. And very much agree & would like to add further to second half of your post.
Non English speaking developed countries (France, Germany, Korea, Japan etc) & developing one’s say Israel, have created a niche in their respective industry segments. Technologically far more superior, backed by excellent R& D, product innovation. They can afford to sideline English in their country. But do you think they’ll prefer to export their products to the world with their native language lables, instruction manuals, product catalogues, and markings on their machines/equipment?
You take Science & technology books, terminologies what language are they written in? Can you image how painful it becomes for a student who has studied mathematics & science in Hindi medium in 10th, and has to switch to English medium? As he has to give post 12th competitive exams for Medical, engineering, where the medium of instruction is English. Can you imagine text books for medical studies , anatomy, botany , pharmacy in Hindi medium? Has Indian government ever tried to convert this vast available knowledge Hindi medium?
Such changes can’t happen overnight, and with the pace of our govt functioning, I don’t think it could ever happen.
Countries like China, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam etc are posing real threats to our service industry as these guys have understood how far they can go & grow, if they also start teaching their kids English right from the basic elementary level.
I’m sorry to feel lucky that we were ruled by Britishers & they’ve given us this gift of English and we’re leveraging this now. And the basic infrastructure as Railways, Roads, postal network, Defense establishments & training. Basic framework to form our own constitution, law & enforcement. Had we been a French colony (like African countries). We wouldn’t have had this competitive advantage, which we have now. We guys would have been like any other African, Arab world country struggling to strive for our existence.
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India, Globally is more known because of it’s service industry (IT, ITES, BPO, KPO, Medical tourism etc).Majority of new jobs gets generated in these sectors only. And service offerings to what countries? Majorly US, European and other English speaking countries. And English is a global language. Can we really afford to sideline English? Sustain this competitive advantage?
How many Indian companies do we know, are making into top 5 in their respective industry segments, globally??
Un till & unless we make a shift towards product industry, driven by R&D, technology, we can’t get close to Japan, Germany etc. and enjoy being yet another non English speaking country. Yet powerful & game changing for the global economy.