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In their High Court, Supreme Court, English is imposed. No Tamil or Kannada or Hindi. In IITs, IIMs, AIIMS, English is imposed, no Tamil or Hindi.

What do they trend? #StopHindiImposition 🤣
Why? They don't about Tamil or Kannada. But are sepoys firing for #EnglishApartheid.
If you cared about your languages you'd realize that English, and not Hindi, is destroying them. You'd demand Engineering, Medicine, management, Courts, in your languages.

Instead you fight for #EnglishImposition to deny opportunity to 90% of people.

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My talk in IIT Madras on the English Medium Myth.

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This in one picture is the graph of India's "English advantage" from 1960-2000.

India and China had a similar GDP in 1947. Japan was higher. (it started translation work earlier though with Meiji reforms).

Look what happens after that with India's amazing "English advantage."
Here is a graph of the Nehruvian penalty on India's economy (different data source so numbers are slightly different).

The same Nehruvian thinking finds its way into "English advantage" thinking today.

And here's India's GDP before the British colonized us and gave us so many gifts, "civilized us", "gave us railways", made us "law abiding", before "feudal society" was dismantled; and most of all before we got the gift of English.

GDP share dropped from 30% to 1% in 1700-1947.
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