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English Vs Kannada
by Kumar on Sep 29, 2006 09:36 AM   Permalink

I just want to highlight here that Media has misguided the people.
Karnataka government is repeatedly telling that they are not against English education. They just derecognized the schools which has permission to teach kannada and got diverted their attention to English. Its against the law of state.

Secondly we are in misconception that we can do wonders with English. English is a binding language in India, since Hindi was made as an alienation language by pretty politicians, So English has won the battle against the Hindi. Now its taking its toll on the regional language. If you can see an ordinary kannadiga speaking kannada, 50% of it will be English words.

Its the duty of government to protect its land, culture, religion and of course language. Kannada was existed long back to English.

There are many countries developed with out English like Japan, Germany.

Its a mighty excuse given by the educated people.



When Mr.Naraya Murthy of Infosys was backing up for english schools and reminding government that other wise its difficult to achieve the growth.

Mr.Basava Raj Horatti, who is the education ministers replied that its would be good if every kann

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