Pride of ancestry is the hope for the future.

Especially more so of civilizations which had a very rich

cultural heritage [even judged by the worst enemy] and a great ancestry and that heritage and ancestry
have got either wiped out, kept in abeyance by inimical forces, suppressed etc due to various reasons
like natural calamity, dirty wars, colonization and any such negative forces. There is a justifiable
euphoria when there are signs, symptoms or serious processes of resurrection of such rich cultural
heritage.

But having said that resorting to over generalizations of inevitable and intricate variety which was
either part of that rich heritage or which grew as a carapace of accretions to life, over simplification of
very complex things , getting into modes of frenzied , hyper emotionally charged chauvinistic zeal
coupled with an euphoria over resurrecting relevance and highlighting it as if it the most wonderful
thing ever to have happened and the greatest addition to life over everything else that has existed and
was part of life are indicators of mass hysteria.

The greatest calamity of all mass hysteria is the half baked youth who can easily get carried away.
This is happening among certain sections of the population of India now with utter hypocrisy because
what they praise so much in public they cannot afford to follow in their private or personal life because
practically it is of less relevance and utility in the scheme of things as they are and for life as it is lived
today.
Atlas has really shrugged for good so that there is a comparatively greater sense feeling being part of
human race as a whole rather than a fanatical sense of belonging or clinging on to a particular clan or
outfit.
In fact in the present day any group which gets over enthusiastically cocooned into such narrow
schemes loses a lot in real life.
This big preamble is for people who go over gaga over someone taking oath in Sanskrit, Hindi being
promoted as a language of national identity and with a sudden found love of Sanskrit and a craze for
promoting a single language, namely Hindi for being identified as an Indian and the concomitant craze
by many other linguistic chauvinists to clamour for making primary education compulsory in a mother
tongue? All these coupled with pouring venom on Macaulays system as the cause for all our ills and
slow growth.
I have placed a question mark after mother tongue why? I know a happy loving couple [rarity] the boy a
Gujarathi and the girl a Telugu and they live at Chennai . Their child speaks Gujarathi, Telugu and of
course Tamil picked up from the maids attending to her and the loving couples in their practical wisdom
have been educating the child in a school where the medium is English. Now the father is likely to get
transferred to Germany.
Now tell me is Macaulays system or his gift of English education a curse or a boon? How many of you
who have praised Sushma Swaraj for her taking oath in Sanskrit would like to get your children educated
in Sanskrit medium schools? What scriptures in Sanskrit you can make a critical analysis in Sanskrit?
Those couples and the poor child would have benefitted had it been forced to have its primary
education in Tamil because they happen to work in Tamil nadu? Or if they happen to work in Bangalore
make the child have its primary education in Kannada?
I think such fanaticism in the present day life is both illogical and ill placed and can cause immense
damage to the very development of the individual as well as the society.
If civilization has conjured up either for good or bad to make English a global language and the pursuit of
higher education, economic activities, scientific knowledge banks and even decent survival hinge on
ones ability to communicate in English why should we shun it. If Kannada or Tamil or Bengali do not
have such a wide acceptance beyond the confines of a particular state, these languages do not lose their
value or importance nor does it mean that their literature has vanished but it is a fact that these
languages have not been able to penetrate beyond their geographical borders a big full stop there,
thats all.
This does not in any way mean that English is the best or greatest among languages. But as a said earlier
the stride of civilization has placed her at an advantageous position there is no point in being jealous
about it or envy it.
Language, after all, primarily is a tool for communication.
Just a week ago on 29
th
May,2014 Times of India newspaper carried a central page article titled HAPPY
TO BE UNHAPPY BY Suman Chattopadhyay how insisting and enforcing for some decades Bengali
medium has caused economic and cultural disadvantage for the Bengali youth.
Every language is an art and science of very vast dimension carrying within it several years of civilization
with all its splendor, the experiences of many souls, expressions of many lives and as such each language
is a vast store house of both art and science. In short each language on earth is a divine tool or probably
the best medium to express our thoughts and experiences. But primarily it is just a tool for
communication.