They keep talking about "structural discrimination." (Of course as copy cats of Western theory.)
But they are mum about the biggest state-based structural discrimination. Where by LAW, a non-English speaker can't plead in High Courts, SC, study in IIM, IIT, AIIMS, be a doctor...
It's a fraudulent argument to preserve English hegemony.
How does saying non-English speakers must be able to plead in Higher Courts, be able to study to be a doctor, engineer deny anyone? It is about creating access.
They don't want that access.
People don't *want* English medium. They want good jobs, they want access to technology, to Courts, to competitive exams. The govt denies them this.
The elite don't want them to rise. So instead of access, they say "let them learn English." That preserves English supremacy.
English-medium in rural areas *doesn't work.* Ask English elite if they'd send their kids to Chinese medium schools, where they don't know language, can't help.
Rural children in English medium are *worse* off. It *ensures* hegemony of English elite.
Parents are "wanting" English because in India's #EnglishApartheid system they see English as the barrier. But they don't know their kids will be worse off since they won't understand anything; will merely be fit to be chaprasis of the English elite.
Two candidates. One studied in a small town English-medium school in UP for 10 years, other in Hindi medium (UP Board).
Even in English the Hindi-medium one did better, let alone in math or science.
But the one on the left wasn't stupid. Just wasted 10 years of schooling.
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