The author in his hurry to appease his pseudo nationalism has forgotten an important part in this article. that the british have imparted english education in south. because of this education, and only because of this, that today we have many jobs in ITes sector, where english is the mother tongue. Even the chinese,recently have acknowledged the fact that its only the english education system that is propelling India into its newly acquired IT super status otherwise China would have outrun India long time back.thanks to english again.
But the british hav't opened as many schools in the north and the people there were also sceptical of their presence. The people of the south embraced englsih religion as they have embraced Aryan speaking invading tribes that have conquered their land,thousands of years back(proof of indus valley civilization)and sending southerners ro peninsular region.
Instead of saying to read his articles, Mr.Srinivasan must brush up his history as well.
RE:reg: British also did a great job.
by koperunjingan on Nov 29, 2006 07:05 PM Permalink
Hi Bhara, We all know that Britain exploited india to further its imperialistic goals during colonisation.This was done in other countries by French,Dutch,Portugese,Spain etc.But to say that India was very rich before the advent of British and we became poorer because of that is far fetched. A country is not a non living thing,it means its people.Again being rich does n't mean rich temples and extravagant maharajas,but it stands for the welfare of the people.It also represents richness of the ideas.I would like to remind you that even now millions of people in the country are in abject poverty.Whom do you blame?British? Let us not waste our time on culture vulture discussions.You seem to have wrong notions about India as well.We all cherish our democratic values and unity in diversity.The founders of this nation didn't visualize India as a monocrop of one religion,one language etc.A garden with varieties of flowers looks more beautiful than another with just a single variety. If this is kept in mind always, then we can march ahead in the global arena,otherwise we will be reduced to fighting over silly things.
RE:reg: British also did a great job.
by Bhara on Nov 27, 2006 08:50 PM Permalink
Hey,
You pseudo secular actor. Gandhi got independence from British who robbed us our country. India was a rich country then. You do not support the british and live in india. Go to london. You can speak english there.
