Saturday, 2 July 2016

Line between dark & light.

Hey guys. Title doesn't make any sense clear right?
Don't bother. The blog stands for the research paper titled as ' Satan and Saraswati :  
 
As we know that anything on earth have so many donations to study. Similarly, English in India also have some of the sides, dimensions, plus n minuses to look upon.

We all are aware of these two characters mentioned in the title - Satan & Saraswati. Satan is villainous character of Paradise lost by Milton and Saraswati is Holly Goddess of Vidhya according to Hindu mythologies.

Yes. Though English language has been officially declared as legal language after Hindi to proceed, still it have some darker side to see. Some negative sides are there, according to Annamalai.

1) "According to the Constitution, English will be used for all proceedings in the Supreme Court, The highest court of the union and the High Courts, the highest courts of the States, until the Parliament legislates otherwise."

2) "Thus the legislative and judicial documents in the Union and in the states are bilingual in English and an Indian language with equal legal authority."

1), 2) - Annamalai.

Thus, both the language Hindi and English were given equal rights at national level. Because Hindi also at some extent, a regional language. Not all the states of India uses Hindi language to communicate. At the time any other regional language cannot be given name as national language, other regions may find problem with that. That is not the case with English language. So it can be used as common language for official and academic purposes. That is one face of English, which is good enough. (Saraswati)

At the same time, same language were described as THE LANGUAGE OF SATANS BY THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS. Those who were highly patriotic minded people, they thought English as the colonial language. And they were not ready to accept it.

another thing which we can't avoid is --

"English which began as a language of commerce in India has itself become a profitable commodity"
-Annamalai.

Without doubt, English has become the language of market and in order to get connected with world market, we need to acquire the knowledge of English. But. What if English itself becomes the key to earn? We can see that English teaching institutions are mushrooming nowadays like anything. And if we look at the price of that institutions, it keeps on increasing.

Thus. English have two or more than two sides in India.

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