Sanskrit oath taking, euphoria and nostalgic feelings, demand for Hindi as a predominant

language, each state demanding primary education to be in mother tongue the new trends. Are
these the priority now?
Pride of ancestry is the hope for the future. Especially more so of ciili!ations which had a ery
rich cultural heritage "een #udged by the worst enemy$ and a great ancestry and that heritage
and ancestry hae got either wiped out, kept in abeyance by inimical forces, suppressed etc due
to arious reasons like natural calamity, dirty wars, coloni!ation and any such negatie forces.
%here is a #ustifiable euphoria when there are signs, symptoms or serious processes of
resurrection of such rich cultural heritage.
&ut haing said that resorting to oer generali!ations of ineitable and intricate ariety which
was either part of that rich heritage or which grew as a carapace of accretions to life, oer
simplification of ery comple' things , getting into modes of fren!ied , hyper emotionally
charged chauinistic !eal coupled with an euphoria oer resurrecting releance and highlighting
it as if it the most wonderful thing eer to hae happened and the greatest addition to life oer
eerything else that has e'isted and was part of life are indicators of mass hysteria.
%he greatest calamity of all mass hysteria is the half baked youth who can easily get carried
away.
%his is happening among certain sections of the population of (ndia now with utter hypocrisy
because what they praise so much in public they cannot afford to follow in their priate or
personal life because practically it is of less releance and utility in the scheme of things as they
are and for life as it is lied today.
Atlas has really shrugged for good so that there is a comparatiely greater sense feeling being
part of human race as a whole rather than a fanatical sense of belonging or clinging on to a
particular clan or outfit.
(n fact in the present day any group which gets oer enthusiastically cocooned into such narrow
schemes loses a lot in real life.
%his big preamble is for people who go oer gaga oer someone taking oath in Sanskrit, Hindi
being promoted as a language of national identity and with a sudden found loe of Sanskrit and a
cra!e for promoting a single language, namely Hindi for being identified as an (ndian and the
concomitant cra!e by many other linguistic chauinists to clamour for making primary education
compulsory in a mother tongue? All these coupled with pouring enom on )acaulay*s system as
the cause for all our ills and slow growth.
( hae placed a +uestion mark after mother tongue why? ( know a happy loing couple "rarity$
the boy a ,u#arathi and the girl a %elugu and they lie at -hennai . %heir child speaks ,u#arathi,
%elugu and of course %amil picked up from the maids attending to her and the loing couples in
their practical wisdom hae been educating the child in a school where the medium is English.
.ow the father is likely to get transferred to ,ermany.
.ow tell me is )acaulay*s system or his gift of English education a curse or a boon? How many
of you who hae praised Sushma Swara# for her taking oath in Sanskrit would like to get your
children educated in Sanskrit medium schools? /hat scriptures in Sanskrit you can make a
critical analysis in Sanskrit? %hose couples and the poor child would hae benefitted had it been
forced to hae its primary education in %amil because they happen to work in %amil nadu? 0r if
they happen to work in &angalore make the child hae its primary education in 1annada?
( think such fanaticism in the present day life is both illogical and ill placed and can cause
immense damage to the ery deelopment of the indiidual as well as the society.
&ahaullah has said23 (f language can help create a sense of nationalism, it can e+ually well help
create a sense of internationalism.3
(f ciili!ation has con#ured up either for good or bad to make English a global language and the
pursuit of higher education, economic actiities, scientific knowledge banks and een decent
surial hinge on one*s ability to communicate in English why should we shun it. (f 1annada or
%amil or &engali do not hae such a wide acceptance beyond the confines of a particular state,
these languages do not lose their alue or importance nor does it mean that their literature has
anished but it is a fact that these languages hae not been able to penetrate beyond their
geographical borders a big full stop there, that*s all.
%his does not in any way mean that English is the best or greatest among languages. &ut as a said
earlier the stride of ciili!ation has placed her at an adantageous position there is no point in
being #ealous about it or eny it.
4anguage, after all, primarily is a tool for communication.
5ust a week ago on 67
th
)ay,689: %imes of (ndia newspaper carried a central page article titled
;HAPP< %0 &E =.HAPP<* &< Suman -hattopadhyay how insisting and enforcing for some
decades &engali medium has caused economic and cultural disadantage for the &engali youth.
Eery language is an art and science of ery ast dimension carrying within it seeral years of
ciili!ation with all its splendor, the e'periences of many souls, e'pressions of many lies and as
such each language is a ast store house of both art and science. (n short each language on earth
is a diine tool or probably the best medium to e'press our thoughts and e'periences. &ut
primarily it is #ust a tool for communication.
Eolution need not necessarily always work through proliferation in all areas of life nor can we
restrain ariety through homogeni!ation. (n certain spheres eolution reduces the number of
entities and this has been the case especially in languages which hae been reduced from a few
thousands some centuries back to a few hundreds now as it is perhaps a sign of bringing in as
many people together through lesser number of medium of communication.
A more #ustifiable classification for adopting a language for practical life would be would be, in
addition to the number of users of a language, its geographical spread, the wide range and
ariegated ocabulary to communicate and e'press as many ideas or eents as possible in as
many fields of human actiity , it must hae the syntactic plasticity, flamboyant fle'ibility suited
to both simple and comple' modes of e'pression, and an enormously eoled deriational
morphology. (f there is a language that fits into all these criteria ade+uately, that is English.
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Een within a language the process of eolution causes enormous and drastic changes as has
been ery well documented by a great linguist Faid -rystal in his books /0GF,/0GFS,
/0GFS and %HE S%0G(ES 0H E.,4(SH.
Here ( would like to reproduce some bits of information like these words science, conscience
and shit all had originally common etymology.
( thought for a longtime that the &ritishers were obsessed with se' that*s why they hae named
their places like Esse', Susse' , /esse', )iddlese' etc but ( learnt that they refer to only
Sa'ons occupying different directions with arying dialects.
Faid crystal writes, I(t remains a le'icological pu!!le why some words were accepted and
some re#ected. /edo not know how to account for the linguistic ;surial of the fittest*. &oth
impede and expede were introduced during the same period as well as disabuse and disadorn, but
in each of these pairs the first item stayed in the language and the second did not3.
He also writes, I(f English is to remain a world language, then it needs a ariety as as a reference
standard, but as the result of process which hae taken place?and which are an ineitable
conse+uence of the nature of language?the character of building has changed. /hereas Standard
English was once iewed as a cathedral or a monument, now it has to be seen more as a sky
crapper, with a specific function of facilitating intelligibility, coe'isting in a city of other tall
buildings which perform other functions, such as the facilitation of local identity. (t is no longer
the only building in the city, and certainly no longer the only building thought to be worth a
isit3.
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