EDITORIAL: English is Bad for India?
A politician in India blames English language as the “destroyer of Indian culture” that has caused a “great loss” to India. Going by his logic, we should have been better off without our software engineers who service global clients or Indian Americans who are top professionals, both enabled by their ability to converse in English.
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Agreed, Hindi and other regional languages are important for culture and ethos, but they don’t make global citizens. English is the only skill-set that Indians score over the Chinese. Imagine China turning into a software powerhouse alongside its manufacturing advantage.
The problem is not English, but something else, writes Siddharth Srivastava.
Exploration of the history of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh reveals that the state of Andhra first came into being in 1953. Then in 1956 Telangana was added to this state, with linguistic similarities despite cultural and historic dissimilarities, to make up what is today known as the state of Andhra Pradesh.
The goal was administrative convenience and resolution of grave water conflicts, but this formation accrued collateral benefits to the Congress party, that went on to score well electorally due to the emergent ‘Reddy’ caste.
On June 30, 2013, the UPA central government led by Congress, agreed to the demands of a 50+-year-old movement for economic and political space for the people of Telangana as a separate state for them from the present Andhra Pradesh, writes Priyanka Bhardwaj.
The man behind the largest anti-corruption movement in India, Anna Hazare, was recently visiting the San Francisco Bay Area. Siliconeer caught up with him at the Sunnyvale Hindu Temple, where he briefly stopped for a meet with the community.
How does an undergraduate top off a whirlwind tenure at the University of California, Berkeley, highlighted by experiments with nanowires and biofuels, brainstorming sessions with corporate executives, poetry readings meant to engender political activism, and educational outreach to students using modern technology? For Ritankar Das, the answer, of course, is to be named University Medalist, the prize given to the year’s top graduating senior, writes Sarah Yang.
All too often, the public views high-achieving Asian American teens as whiz kids — problem-free members of the model minority. But Wei knows that many struggle with intense emotions, including stress, depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts, often without their families or friends knowing. New America Media’s Katherine Kam presents Wei’s story.
In Uttar Pradesh, when an IAS official tried to take on the sand mining mafia, instead of finding support for her actions, Durga Shakti Nagpal was at the receiving end of the wrath of chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, writes Priyanka Bhardwaj.
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