Does India need its own vernacular internet?

Re:Does India need its own vernacular internet? by gnipgnip on Friday December 16, 2016 @09:27AM (#13193414)

> This might still become 500 million is a decade but still half the country is being denied of internet.

Perhaps, but to paraphrase a comment in the attached thread, I'd be more worried about feeding the cow before milking it. I mean, for a linguistic population comparable to native English speaking population of the entire world, there exists not a single school teaching Engineering of Medicine in Hindi (not to speak of other far older languages) - these people barely have any money to subsist on on average (and arguably also why medicine and infrastructure suck).

Also see,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZwq4JnCZ4A

http://sankrant.org/2011/03/the-english-class-system-2/

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Re:Does India need its own vernacular internet? by amitsy on Friday December 16, 2016 @09:57AM (#13193629)

Completely agree with you on this one. The situation is much more worse than what we living in a bubble imagine. The video really touches your heart. Reminds me of a couple of my friends in my college, and the struggle they went through - Shifting from one language to another.

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Re:Does India need its own vernacular internet? by gnipgnip on Friday December 16, 2016 @10:22AM (#13193823)

The bubble thing is very real.

Isn't it interesting then that all our intelligensia is engaged in the whole apochryphal "caste-system" narrative [1] [2], while essentially being the gate keepers of a state/violence sanctioned system of linguistic apartheid ?

Even Chomsky, when questioned about his accomplice Roy, seemed perfectly okay with the current state of things. My entire schooling/conditioning has been turned on its head - I can't recommend S N Balagangadhara & Dharampal's works enough.

[1] http://www.hipkapi.com/2011/04/02/mantras-of-anti-brahmanism...

[2] https://archive.org/details/DharampalCollectedWritingsIn5Vol...

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