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