Thread by @vakibs

This is funny.😄 Then why not read all modern mathematics and physics in French and German?

And practically all of high school maths and science in Sanskrit?

English became a language of science by translations from other languages, something it wants to deny Indian languages.

https://twitter.com/shrikanth_krish/status/1443520139522105344

The share of English in global GDP is steadily falling, just as the share of Asia is rising. This is inconvenient for bygone powers like UK, whose global status is predicated on the use of English. Hence English is being pushed in India, directing its GDP into the Anglo-economy.

The argument for using English would have made some sense in the era when USA was the undoubted motor of global economy. This was the case for most of 20th century.

Now that era is finished. USA still remains an important power, but it will also diversify its language portfolio.

For example, USA needs to be magnet of the entire Western Hemisphere, both the northern and southern America. It cannot cede any ground there to China. So the right strategy for USA is to promote the use of Spanish.

The UK is a hopeless gone case as a power. It is a dead weight.

The only people who take UK (and its Anglo prestige) seriously are the non-decolonized Anglophone elite of its former colonies.

India needs to push these morons out of the corridors of power, otherwise it will also sink along with the UK. India doesn’t need English for its rise.