Ill affects of retaining and propagating English in Bharat

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--- Mohan Gupta <mgupta wrote:

 

> "Mohan Gupta" <mgupta

> <editor

> Ill affects of retaining and

> propagating English in Bharat

> Sat, 7 Aug 2004 00:00:50 -0400

>

> Ill affects of retaining and propagating English in

> Bharat

>

> Weekly "Truth" is a small magazine

> published from Kolkatta. Magazine may be small, but

> it is a very good quality magazine. This magazine

> pleads the case of Sanskrit very strongly and writes

> about ancient culture of Bharat from time to time.

>

> Some years ago, it published one

> article where it was mentioned that in olden days,

> there was no theft and corruption in Bharat and

> people did not put locks on their doors. Early

> British rulers were very much surprised about

> Bharatiya culture and honesty of Bharatiya people.

> The article by giving quotations mentioned that as

> collapse of the Bharatiya Education System,

> Sanskrit, Hindi started in Bharat and English took

> over the place of Sanskrit / Hindi, then cheating,

> deception, robbery, stealing, corruption started in

> Bharatiya people. Sanskrit has some intrinsic power

> in it. Sanskrit encourages or gives strength to

> people not to cheat, lie, rob or do any kind of

> corruption. English affects people unconsciously.

> Only those people who have got very good Bharatiya

> Sanskars and have read Bharatiya literature very

> well, can escape the ill effects of English

> language.

>

> English is not only a simple

> language; it is much, much more. A language is

> associated with the religion, culture, and system of

> working of nation, literature of the country,

> festivals, traditions and many more things. English

> played a big role in spreading Christianity in

> Bharat and in other parts of the world, all

> festivals of western Christian world have come to

> Bharat, festivals like Valentine's Day (which is a

> sort of vulgar festival), has taken root in Bharat.

> Due to education of English language, Bharatiya

> people know more about English authors, English

> literature, English poems, rather than Bharatiya

> authors, Bharatiya literature and Bharatiya poetry.

> People know more about Shakespeare, Milton rather

> than Kalidasa, Hari Bachhan, Mathlisaran Gupt and

> many more famous Bharatiya authors. How many people

> have heard the names of Bharatiya poets like

> Randhari Singh Dinkar, Mahakavi Jai Shankar Persaud?

> How many people know that Ramdhari Singh Dinkar was

> a national poet? This fact does not encourage

> confidence in Bharatiya culture.

>

> Many newspapers and other media in

> Bharat give the importance of the day from British

> history, These Bharatiya media people do not mention

> any important event from Bharatiya history, as for

> these media people, history of Bharat is a history

> of slavery and there is no important event in

> Bharatiya history worth mentioning.

>

> When Israel was formed, then many

> people expected that Israel would adopt English,

> French or German for its official business. Israeli

> people knew very well that if they adopted any

> foreign language, then they would have to accept the

> mental slavery of the nation of which country they

> adopt language. By adopting a foreign language,

> Israel would have to accept religion, culture,

> traditions, manners, literature, festivals and many

> more things of the nation from where they adopt the

> language for their official work. Therefore Israel

> instead of adopting a foreign language revived their

> dead Hebrew language. Dead Hebrew language did not

> have much vocabulary of modern words. A committee

> was formed for the development of New Hebrew words.

> Israel media played a big role in developing,

> spreading, making familiar and acceptance of New

> Hebrew words.

>

> New developed words of Hebrew were

> published in Israeli media. Comments were invited on

> New Hebrew coined / developed words. By hit and

> trial, with the formation of New Hebrew words with

> the help of Israeli media, a New Hebrew language

> came into being.

>

> Now compare the behavior of

> Bharatiya media with Israeli media. Hindi Film

> industry says that they spread Hindi. The fact is

> Hindi film industry is destroying Hindi. In the name

> of Hindi, entertainment media spread more Urdu and

> English languages. Hindi Film industry by use of

> Urdu and English words, are making popular more Urdu

> and English words rather than Hindi words. Film

> media make film in Hindi but give 100% cast of Hindi

> film in English. Some Hindi films even do not write

> the name of Hindi film in Hindi. A girl came to me

> and said that her father is from Allahabad - Bharat,

> but her mother is English. As she belongs to

> Bharatiya culture to some extent, she wants to learn

> Hindi. I asked her if she could understand spoken

> Hindi? She said that she has seen some Hindi films,

> therefore could understand a few Hindi words (which

> were in fact Urdu words). She picked more words Urdu

> than Hindi words from Hindi films. I asked her if

> she has seen Hindi alphabets ever. She was not sure

> if she has ever seen Hindi alphabets. I handed her

> one Punjabi, one Urdu and one Hindi newspaper. She

> could not tell me which paper was Hindi paper. She

> asked me why Hindi films give cast in English? It is

> because Bharatiya media and general public are slave

> people and Bharatiya people do not want to leave

> slavery.

>

> All the Hindi film / TV producers

> should rot in hell as these people make money on the

> name of Hindi, even then media people do not show

> the audience how the Hindi alphabets are written and

> how the Hindi words look like, and for promoting

> Urdu and English languages on the name of Hindi.

> Manufactures of CD cassettes of Hindi songs and

> producers of Hindi film DVDs should also rot in

> hell, as these people also do not write Hindi on the

> cover of their products. These cassettes are made of

> Hindi films and DVDs are of Hindi films, but

> manufacturers do not write Hindi on the cover. The

> media people make money with the name of Hindi, but

> ignore Hindi and promote Urdu / English languages.

> The food they eat with this ill-gotten money should

> turn into worms into their stomach.

>

> Take the case of Hindi print media. Hindi magazine

> "Grah Sobha" is published by Delhi Press. The editor

> uses lots of English words, apart from Urdu words in

> Hindi magazine, saying that many educated women use

> English words in their conversation. The editor does

> not realize the simple fact that while conversing,

> there are only some limited people, which may be at

> the most 10 people,who are almost of the same

> education level or power of understanding. While

> magazine is read by hundred thousand people. There

> might be some readers who might not understand those

> English words used in Hindi magazine "Grah Sobha".

> Moreover the duty of Hindi press is to promote and

> popularize Hindi words, it is not their duty to

> promote English words. Monthly Meri Saheli Hindi

> magazine is one of the worst magazines for using

> Urdu and English words in Hindi magazine. These

> people do not realize that they are perpetuating

> mental slavery in Bharat.

>

> In broadcasting media, there would hardly be any

> forum; which uses pure Hindi. Many kinds of animals

> can be trained. BBC Hindi service uses lots of Urdu

> words in its Hindi service. This fact has been

> brought to their notice many, many times; even then

> BBC service uses lots of Urdu words. An animal can

> be changed and trained, but not the BBC Hindi staff.

> These people are worse than animals. There are many,

> many more such Hindi media people.

>

> In Canada, the election conducted in June 2004, 10

> South Asian people were elected in Canadian

> Parliament. Out of 10 members, 8 are Sikh people.

> Canada has more than 225,000 people who have

> registered Punjabi as their mother language in

> census. Canada has more than 30 weekly Punjabi

> newspapers and about 3 - 4 Daily Punjabi newspapers.

> Due to the combined effect of these factors,

> Punjabi has got the 4th position in Canada, after

> English, French and Italian languages. Now compare

> the behavior of Hindi media. Hindi is to used and

> abused by Bharatiya media, instead Hindi to be

> promoted by Bharatiya media. Are not the Hindi media

> traitors to the cause of Hindi?

>

> Many Bharatiya people keep repeating

> like a broken record that English is a world

> language. Such people are of extremely poor

> knowledge with no common sense. These people have

> never seen any World Book of Learning or Almanac or

> any kind of Year Book. The fact is that more people

> know Chinese language than English in the world. It

> might be news to some people that Hindi language is

> understood by more people than English in the world.

> But the problem is that most of the Hindi knowing

> are confined in Bharat and many Hindi knowing people

> are poor people with less power of buying Hindi

> magazines and Hindi newspapers, while English

> educated people earn lot more money. There are many

> countries in the world, where it would be difficult

> to find English knowing person. It is only Bharatiya

> slave people, for whom English is a world language.

>

> There is one very major disadvantage

> of learning English, which Bharatiya media would

> never discuss. Many Gay and Lesbian magazines of

> the western world advise their readers to go to

> Bharat for enjoying young boys and girls sexually.

> As many people know English in Bharat, western

> tourists would have no difficulty in finding young

> boys and girls for sexual enjoyment. Knowledge of

> English language by Bharatiya people invites

> predators from western world.

>

> Many countries of the world conduct

> their business in language other than English. Apart

> from Italy, German, France, even China, Japan and

> Arabic countries do not conduct their business in

> English. These countries are surviving and

> prospering without English. When Bharat is compared

> to China, many people say that Bharat has got some

> edge over China in outsourcing and in world trade,

> as there are more English knowing people in Bharat.

> Without going in detail and quoting the figures of

> trade, in the nutshell I would say these people

> should become beggars. These people should not have

> any shame in begging, as these people have no pride

> in their language, culture and nation. Even then

> Bharat would still have some edge over China.

>

> A country should have leaders,

> language, laws, which would bring respect and glory

> to the nation. For congress party, if Sonia Gandhi

> becomes Prime Minister of Bharat, then they would

> feel proud and would think that Bharat has honored a

> foreign lady and Bahu of Nehru and Ghandey family,

> but I would feel ashamed, as I would realize that I

> still belong to a slave nation.

>

> Bharatiya politicians, media people,

> general public feel proud with English. These people

> do not realize that these people bring shame to the

> nation and perpetuate mental slavery. It looks the

> condition is such now that Bharatiya people cannot

> live without slavery. Instead of physical presence

> of foreign people, they have adopted English

> language as symbol of their slavery.

>

> Bharatiya people have got no desire

> to develop their language and culture. They have got

> no desire to make Sanskrit and Hindi prominent

> language of the world. As small plant does not grow

> under the shadow of large tree, similarly Hindi /

> Sanskrit cannot grow till English has dominant

> position in Bharat, English is taught in Bharatiya

> schools from grade 1. English must be downgraded

> from Bharat.

>

> When Bharat got independence,

> Britain lost its empire. If Hindi gets dominant

> position in Bharat, then English would lose its

> dominant position and status in the world, which it

> has got now in the world.

>

> Reading classics broadens the mind. It also offers

> clues that help to sort out knotty contemporary

> concerns. The national question fills a large part

> of the socialist literature spanning from the

> mid-19th century. The reasons not at all obscure. A

> nation consists of a group of people who have a

> government of their own. Should some heterogeneity,

> such as of language and culture, distinguish the

> people constituting the nation, these are assumed to

> be taken care of by the deft hand of the government.

> The hand, however, can often be far from deft. The

> people are not unified, they are a baggage of

> nationalities riven by differences in ethnicity,

> language and culture, and the regime may fail to

> bring them together.

>

> We Hindus consider ourselves progressive if we

> desert our ideals. This wrong impression creates

> lots of problems for Hindus. By deserting time

> tested Hindu ideals, lead us to a life which is

> incomplete and where aim of life is not clear. If

> aim is not clear, ideas are not clear, life also

> becomes just a like a boat, which does not have oar

> and have no destination. Slavery and imitation of

> foreign languages and foreign ideals would neither

> provide any aim or happiness to Hindus as

> individuals or as a Hindu nation.

>

> "Hindu" is a name given by invaders to the

> "dhaarmik" people of Bharat followers of Santana

> Dharma. It is a pity that over the centuries they

> started responding to that name just like perhaps

> the negroids when they were slaves responded to "hey

> there boy" in the US or the aborigines in Australia

> to "hey there abo" - It is also a pity they have now

> forgotten they are free - they carry their jail in

> their minds... and willfully pass on their bondage

> to their children...

>

> Politicians like education minister of Rajasthan

> Ghanshyam Tiwari are slave people and want to spread

> mental slavery in whole Bharat. Media people should

> make films how the African slave people were treated

> by the colonizers. Education minister of Rajasthan

> Ghanshyam Tiwari should be treated, as slaves of

> Africa were treated. Present education system of

> Bharat does not bring glory to Bharat. These people

> do not realize how much extra burden, these

> politicians put on the Bharatiya children by

> teaching children English from grade 1.

>

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> "Vyom Akhil" <vyomakhil

>

> Comments on English

>

> English is a very stupid language. But more

> pertinent is the fact that those who had such a

> stupid language to learn as their mother tongue were

> able to overcome nearly all their major habitat

> handicaps, crossed the daunting oceans, nearly

> circumvented the globe and established an empire on

> which the Sun never set.

>

> Of course, they were clever people who, in many

> ways, were - and continue to remain - stupid and

> muddled; people entangled and trapped in their own

> invention - the English language; people, for ever

> so busy in search of the right word that they seldom

> have any time left to have the right thought. In

> most of the countries in the world today where

> English is accorded an elitist status - and India is

> arguably the ' jewel in that crown' - it is an

> imperial vestige that reinforces and

> institutionalizes existing social disparities and

> distortions. Most people in these land are not truly

> 'westernized anglophiles' but they were better

> identified by an Iranian intellectual as

> 'westoxicated."

>

> English is less a language, more a Band-Aided

> potpourri of diverse patois, that, in its formal

> structure, ends up more recondite, obfuscatory,

> linear and exclusionary, the more it tries to be

> accurate and precise. As a communicational tool, it

> is like a wild horse that challenges taming. To call

> this ' language' of current global trade and

> commerce is to admit that it is less an

> international language, more an international harlot

> (call-girl).

>

> If human speech could be analogized to the states of

> matter, then some languages, Sanskrit, for instance,

> have a solid crystalline structure; elegant and

> uplifting patters of sounds that reach out to

> express that which is beyond expression.

>

> Others are amorphous and powdery; they have speech

> patterns that seldom allow anyone to deviate or

> digress into new territory other than set in the

> past; the Arabic languages could probably make good

> illustrations of these.

>

> Then there are languages that are like liquids with

> various degrees of viscosity - languages with

> engaging rhythms and cadences, French and Bengali,

> and perhaps, those spoken amongst the Mongol people

> - Mandarin, Tagalong, Cambodian come to mind.

>

> The folk languages are simple, like cascading

> streams and gurgling brooks. They usually have rich

> oral content. Many are without their own scripts.

> Most are spoken in relatively small regions.

> Humankind is, per the experts who keep track of

> these things, will lose most of them before this

> century is over.

>

> Then there are languages - and English is a

> spectacular example - which are volatile like gas;

> lots of volume but little content; hardly any memory

> informs them. Like a shifty character, they are

> always borrowing from Paul to pay Peter. To keep

> alive they have to constantly reinvent themselves.

> Their grammar is unacceptably defective and their

> scripts are usually plagiarized. Of inattentive

> minds, they make miasmic cesspools that bubble with

> resentment, discontent, anger, greed and aggression.

> They can, however, can spread like a forest fire

> burning whatever touches them - heritage, tradition,

> culture, history, feelings and emotions that belong

> to communities that are meek and would rather live

> in peace and contentment.

> But those few, who are blessed - the saints

> and the poets - can take whatever sounds are

> available to them and create a form of language that

> is charged like plasma. Their thoughts arc out in

> all directions and their words defeat mortality. It

> is a miracle that they are able to nearly immunize

> their insights from the deformations that are the

> lot of all thoughts that is expressed.

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