The
only other Minister, other than Modi, to repeatedly come into news in the BJP
government is Mrs Smriti Irani, owing to her ministry’s notorious and cruel
plan to make Sanskrit compulsory in all the Kendriya Vidyalayas. But when it’s
about nationalising Sanskrit, wasn’t this, a Tamil rebellion, expected?
Agreed,
that Sanskrit is one of the most beautiful and richest languages of the world
but to impose it on unsuspecting students, in the middle of an academic year,
without any warning is not only inhumane but it also devalues the ‘language of
the Gods’ as it is merely used as a tool in a farce attempt to perpetuate some
petty ideologues of a neo-fascist organisation.
On
top of this, the fight between Tamil and Sankrit has been long, rather I should
say the fight between Tamil speakers and Sanskrit adorers, who doesn’t know
much of either language, has been long. Any attempt at ‘nationalising’ Sanskrit
or any of its offspring languages is looked upon contemptuously by the Tamil speakers.
This warning by Tamil Nadu Congress Committee President EVKS Elangovan to the
Central government might just be a beginning.
Anyways, the decision to make Sanskrit
compulsory is looked upon contemptuously by everyone and not only the Tamil
people. When there are better, but slow and gradual, options to introduce
Sanskrit as a practical language, such a radical introduction of Sanskrit was
totally uncalled for.
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