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27 Dec, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Within 10 years
1—The world will use their own languages with real-time audio translation.
2—Call centers jobs will be replaced by text/audio chatbots.

But Indians will be chasing "English-medium" while failing to train for actual 21st century skills.

gadgets.ndtv.com/wearables/news…
And this is the state of education India is providing its youngsters in English with the "demographic dividend." Creating masses of unemployable youth who can neither use any language well nor posess any skills.

And this is what China is doing:

We need a new word for the ignorance of English advocates in India. Maybe #Engnoramus?

Because they've internalized English supremacy, they think "the world" works like this. Usually with ZERO knowledge of the world. Have you checked the patent data?

Guess which country files the most patents? China
Guess how many of the top-5 use English? 1
Guess what language China uses for patents? Chinese
Guess which country does *not* allow patent filing in any native language? India

statista.com/statistics/256…

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There is a reason for India's #Engnoramus. It is cultivated by Indian State policy.

India *forces* English only for patents, for High Courts, for MBA, for Law, for Medicine. #Engnoramuses see that and only know of America. For them that is the "world." So "world" uses English.

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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
27 Dec
I still don't understand why Indians suffer under the misconception that "globalization" requires English. No one else really thinks so.

Perhaps that's why they get their lunch eaten by the Chinese.
The Chinese communicate with the Japanese in English? And with Russians? And French?

The Chinese study technology in Chinese-medium. The Japanese business heads use Japanese, hire interpreters as needed. They are more globalized than India.

And "foreigners" don't study in English-medium. Only 4 or 5 major economies do. Ask @mariawirth1

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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
19 Dec
We tout India's first female doctor and first female airplane pilot.

Both these were "child marriages." Their husbands/in-laws supported their education and dreams.

I'm not advocating teen marriage. But I'm questioning the uni-dimensional one-size-fits-all view of society.
Sarla Thukral, India's first female pilot, was married at 16. Her husband was a pilot and encouraged her learning to fly.

After her marriage at 16 she become a pilot, a mother, an entrepreneur, a painter and lived to a ripe age of 94.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarla_Thu…
Anandi Joshi, touted as India's first (allopathic) doctor, married at the age of 9. Her husband encouraged her to study medicine.

He supported her move to Calcutta and then US to pursue medicine so she could study "away from interference by her parents."

indianexpress.com/article/who-is…
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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
16 Dec
Raising #MarriageAge for girls to 21 in India, the highest in the world, is draconian interference in society pushed by colonized minds.

Some states in the US don't even have a minimum marriage age. Many have 14 or 16.

Colonial shame produces laws out of touch with reality.
What is colonial about it, he asks? 😆

Where in the shastras can you find such a law or need? Or in which indigenous culture prior to colonization, anywhere in the world?

This thinking comes from the civilizing mission. The State has to "fix" people.

The problem with many of the so-called "Hindutva" thinkers is that they have internalized colonial ideas but parrot them as necessary to be "modern" and "progressive." They share the contempt the Left has for native culture; just in a different flavor.

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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
8 Dec
What the debate over Christian school misses:

The Indian State *funds* Christian schools which can discriminate on the basis of religion in hiring and admission.

At the same time it imposes draconian RTE on Hindu-run schools.

At the same time, Christian schools aimed at the middle class do "soft"-peddling of Christianity. They know that explicit conversion would be problematic.

Abuse and forced conversion is reserved for the poor or those with less power to protest.

Oh I agree. And also ZERO state funding and land grants, return of the all the leases occupied during colonial rule and now expired. No discrimination by the state in RTE.

I'm with you brother.

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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
7 Dec
Does your vaccine only work if others have it?

Then it's a vaccine problem.

And there's still a mandate problem.
I'm not against people getting vaccinated for Covid. India's high vaccination has happened largely without mandates.
I am opposed to govt mandates and forcing people to inject something into their body. People must be able to make their own risk-reward decision.
#MyBodyMyChoice
So what else do you want to force upon people? Fast food is unhealthy, close all fast food joints. High fat causes heart attacks, fills hospitals, ban fat? Or maybe carbs or sugar are the problem. Ban them all, let's rule human choices by mandate.

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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
30 Nov
I followed that IIT->grad->tech US path. My 2c:

1. Indians' domestic success is throttled by bureaucracy .
2. Indian quotas kill meritocracy. #Wokeism is a rounding error compared to quotas.
3. #EnglishApartheid ensures only a fraction of India's talent develops vs China eg.
Indians succeed, even in the US, not *because* of English, but despite it.

I thought I spoke great "convent school" English, but American students complained of my "weird accent" as TA. Immaterial.

Two factors of Indians' success are selectivity ratio and Indian families.
In general, Indians enjoy strong family support. Their domestic relations are also generally more stable. This creates a greater platform for success.

Indian languages' logical structure is an asset in brain development; but we are losing this advantage.
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