My First Interview

For the Post of Assistant Professor (Public Administration)

Transcript of my Interaction with Select Committee

At Netaji Subash Open University (NSOU), Kolkata, West Bengal

Date: 27/June/2019

On the day of Interview

Waiting Hall

In the Board Room,

It was a panel of 6 members.

Chairman: Greets and asked me to be seated... As am the only candidate outside of West Bengal, He asked about my residential town in Tamil Nadu....

As you are from down south, I put forward you this... There is a general perception that Sothern states are performing well in HUMAN DEVELOPMENT whereas the Northern states are not so... in this context, if we ask you to deliver a lecture on HUMAN DEVELOPMENT.. Just assume we people as students and come to the front, dias is yours... please proceed....

Me: (started it as) Human Resource is inevitable for any progress or growth

Chairman: (clarified) we asked about HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Me: Yes sir, am trying to address the same.... RESOURCE, everything is a resource... example, Money is a RESOURCE... we invest it in machines, land which gives us something in return... so it becomes CAPITAL... this process is called DEVELOPMENT... similarly PEOPLE are just HUMAN RESOURCE... they should be tapped by providing essential inputs like HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION, SOCIAL BENEFITS... so they can give us back something as a HUMAN CAPITAL.. This is known as HUMAN DEVELOPMENT. In the era of GOVERNANCE we cannot proceed without focusing on it.

Chairman: How will you measure HUMAN DEVELOPMENT?

Me: Primarily there are Indicators to measure Human Development..

Chairman: What are they? Can you mention any three?

Me:  It is Income, Health, Education... 

Chairman: (Subsequent questions on each.... ) How can you measure HEALTH?

Me: Health... it can be measured by considering LIFESPAN of a person (at that moment I didn't get the keyword "Life Expectancy at Birth")

Then he was asking about other parameters.... 

Me: Standard of living (based on Income, monthly earnings or so...) and Education (i.e. Literacy Rate)

Chairman: Fine, you can come back to your seat....

Chairman pointed at Other Member at his left corner... (gestured as your turn)

Member 1: Can you mention any COMMON PROBLEM faced by Public Administration both in INDIA as well as GLOBALLY....

Me: Yes sir, Problem with Public Administration or Administrators is they lack CONNECTION with GRASS ROOT, GROUND REALITY... especially COLONIAL LEGACY which we carry forward keep the Administrators remain at the top... less connected to people...

Member 1: Problem of COLONIAL LEGACY is for India, it is not there for Lodon... right?

Me: Yes sir, problem of COLONIAL LEGACY is restricted to India but i think the problem of POOR CONNECTIVITY applies to other countries like United Kingdom too..

Member 1: How this can be solved?

Me: India is doing far better in it's initiatives... be it PM INTERACT PORTAL or Mygov portal.... it provide option to enhance the CONNECTIVITY....

Member 1: What should be done on this?

Me: Yes sir, it is college, university should create awareness... I don't know how many college students are get used to these portal... they are interested in Facebook and other social media... how far they used to mygov portal.... in history we talk about Bhatralog (inteligentia)... they create awareness... it should TRICKLE DOWN into the SOCIETY...

Member 1: So, what kind of problem in other countries....

Me: I have heard it somewhere... United Nation's Agencies provide aide, medicine to African countries Sudan or so... before the Team distribute medicines, the people start spreading WRONG INFORMATIONS about the medical aide... they tangle a business motive behind those aide etc... these kind of MISINFORMATION often happen in India... PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR should address these problems at first....

Member 2: (second Left of Chairman)

Being yourself in a OPEN UNIVERSITY... Do you aware of ODL Programmes?

Me: ODL (Open and Distance Learning programmes) governed by Distance Education Council (DEC) established under 1985 IGNOU Act.... 

Member 2: That council has be replaced... now it is governed directly by UGC-DEB....

Member 2: Anyways fine, do you aware of PCP and SLP programmes?

Me: I have heard it somewhere... but can't recall right now.... (gestured a apologising face)

Member 2: You have mentioned that you are a Part-Time faculty at some coaching Academy in chennai...  right?

Me: Yes sir.. (elaborated as mentioned in my profile...)

Member 2: Where you did your PG? IGNOU right?

Me: Yes sir.... now am pursing MA.(Economics) at IGNOU

Member 2: Oh It's also from IGNOU... fine...

Member 3: Can you name any two places where PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION is relevant even today?

Me: Yes sir, as I mentioned, In GOVERNANCE ERA, there is Multi-Institutional, Plurality... where Civil Society, Private as well Government coexist... Government act as a pivot, linkpin.... it should be based on the PRINCIPLE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION....be it INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS like WORLD BANK or IMF.... or grass root ORGANIZATIONS in INDIA... Especially post-1991 reforms in India... we are engaging CIVIL SOCIETIES... Rather adopting to PRIVATE ADMINISTRATION which is more of Business Model and Profit Oriented,  it is essential to adopt the principles of PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION which is more of PEOPLE CENTRIC, WELFARE ORIENTED, and strive to ALLEVIATE POVERTY.... etc

Member 4: (Immediate left of chairman) Being from state of Tamil Nadu... I will put forward you an issue from your own state....

Me: ( I was eager and guessed it to be relted with WATER CRISIS)

Member 4: As you were talking lot about PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION....in that perspectives explain the reason for WATER CRISIS in your state.... 

Me: ( Enthusiastically I started to utter words...)

Member 4: (Interrupts) Gentleman we know you can talk on any topic for 2 hours or so... we don't want that... make your answer brief and crisp....

Me: Sure sir... I will make my point very short... as I mentioned earlier... it is the problem of POOR CONNECTION TO PEOPLE, GROUND REALITY....former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu advocated on RAIN WATER HARVESTING at every house... but people bribed those Inspectors who comes to check their houses.. they found TEMPORARY SOLUTION and they are suffering now... unless we INFORM THE PEOPLE about need of any Scheme or Programme... it couldnot be implemented EFFECTIVELY...

Chairman: so your saying this is a problem of PUBLIC GOOD...

Me: Yes sir, it is the problem of PUBLIC GOOD...

Chairman: You mean that... are you aware of the "Theory on Public Good"... there is a theory.... Do you know? Can you name any person associated with it?

Me: Yes sir, I know... but I can't recall the person right now... ( at that moment I couldn't even recall PAUL SAMUELSON.... only Robinson, Osborne and Gabler comes to my mind but ROBINSON is associated with Growth Model, Osborne & Gabler associated with Reinventing Government)

Chairman: Ok no problem....

Member 5: seems you have not submitted the photo copy of your class 10th marksheet....

Me: I submitted it just before entering the hall....

Chairman acknowledged it....

Chairman: Ok... Fine.... Thank you... you can leave now....

Me: Thank you sir...

Who will Bell the Cat??: Business of Media House

There is difference between
PROPOGATING Public Opinion
and
AWAKENING Public Opinion...

That make you GREAT or GOOD..

#CambridgeAnalytica #GameThoery

சீமான், எச்.ராஜா, மரிதாஸ் கூறும் பொய்களில் உண்மை உள்ளதுனு ஒரு குருப்பு ...

மதிமாறன், அருள் மொழி, வீரமணி கூறும் உண்மையில் பொய்கள் உள்ளதுனு ஒரு குருப்பு...

அப்போ கமல் சொல்றது மட்டும் என்ன புரியல உங்களுக்கு?

- நானும் கமல் ஹாசன் இரசிகன் என்று நிரூபிக்க வேற வழி தெரியல

காந்திய உயிர தான் கொணுடீங்க...

Don't tarnish leaders and their past deed for your Political mileage.

MAHATMA GANDHI is Idol for Mankind.

Yes... it is about MEDIA... So called FORTH PILLAR OF DEMOCRACY.... Which is most corrupted among the all....

Media is taking over.... Of course there is PLURALITY OF INTITUTION.... Everyone
tend to be CRUSADER of their own cause, none for the people... some perspectives on Pre-Poll Survey...

What the pre-poll survey and exit-poll survey meant by?

Public opinion from a particular sample.

Example Given:

1. Times Now-VMR Opinion Poll : Modi govt again with 283 seats, predicts survey.

2. A survey done by APT for Puthiya Thalaimurai channel said the DMK front would win 30-33 seats out of the 39 in Tamil Nadu.

3. The CSDS-Lokniti Pre Election Survey indicates that the national mood appears to be to give the ruling party/alliance a second term.

Before taking into this... First let check... What do you know about TRP rating?

Target rating point (TRP) for calculation purposes is a device attached to the TV set in a few thousand viewers' houses for judging purposes. These numbers are treated as a sample from the overall TV owners in different geographical and demographic sectors.

BARC (Broadcasting Audience Research Council of India) most reliable firm in making the data on TV viewership in India.

Who will benefit out of it?

Public or People... anyways it reflects people's preferences... consumer choice... almost it benefits only the Broadcasting house... to showcase their POPULARITY to fix the price/charge of ADVERTISMENTS...

Similarly, if we view the pre-poll or OPINION POLL survey of Media house...

Whose opinion is that? What is the sample size?

Most often collected by Online survey... Mostly taken up by their SUBSCRIBERS or READERS... or at least from the people who believe that particular media to be trustworthy ( in essence, aligned with their beliefs/inclination - be it socio, political, cultural, religion...)

Again it is yet another TRP... lets say it could be p-TRP..

POLITICAL TARGET RATING POINT.

Example given:

1. Nakheeran OPINION SURVEY will be in favour of DMK Alliance.

2. Times Now will be in favour of NDA alliance.

Et cetra

Recent add-on:

(Only for the purpose of understanding)

Rangaraj pandey's Chanakya survey was in favour of DMK alliance. It can be cross-checked with the comments he recieved in all his post. Both matches, most of the comments are derogatory, most in favour of DMK alliance.

Disclaimer: Nothing with Political Intention... only for the study of the subject.

The POLITICAL INCLINATION of the subscriber/readers of particular newspaper/media and the PRE-POLL SURVEY RESULTS seems to be matching...

Now, Who benefits out of it?

1. It might influence the voters, btw not at large.

2. It can deceive only those people "cat on the wall" category.

3. It would have Bandwagon effect.

Who really benefits out of it?

Media house... they inform different political parties that their VIEWERS or SUBSCRIBERS are of such POLITICAL INCLINATION, so I am potential enough to influence your VOTE-BANK.

thereon different charge/prices fixed.

E.g. PAID NEWS, Defamatory and Apologies... et cetera

Corporatized Media great hindrance and threat to Democracy next only to FASCIST BJP.

Ps: Though EC recommends for ELECTION SILENCE, it applies only for those regulated channels... Social medias, WhatsApp, Facebook walks with people till the doorsteps of polling booth.. (Of courses, They spice up and carry forward the cooked up stories of mainstream media...)

#Capitalist_Media

Being Business House, they are
#Hinderance_to_Administration

#Threat_to_Democracy

Do we have authenticated source for Fact-Check?
Many existing fact-check websites are lopsided, biased, they themself being propagandist...

What Regulatory power do #PCI #NBSA have?

#Who_will_bell_the_Cat?

Anti-Fake news legislation?
https://www.businessinsider.in/fake-news-laws-counter-whatsapp-facebook-google-twitter/articleshow/68704654.cms

Refer: Section 126/ RPA 1951

The Commission mainly relied on the provisions of Sections 126 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, as amended by the Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 1996, to support its view that the voter needs a period of at least 48 hours before the completion of the poll, during which he or she should not be "disturbed in the process of weighing the merits and demerits of political parties and contesting candidates in the electoral fray, in a tranquil and balanced frame of mind."

Refer: 1998 Guidelines :-

The "Guidelines" require agencies conducting pre-election opinion and exit polls to indicate the sample size of the electorate covered and the geographic spread of the survey. "They must invariably give the details of methodology followed, likely percentage of errors, the professional background and experience of the organisation or organisations and the key professionals involved in the conduct and analysis of the poll," the Commission noted.

For further Reference:

4. https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/elections/retired-officials-allege-vested-interests-trying-to-denigrate-election-commission/article26853929.ece 

கோடு நம்பர், ரோடு நம்பர் கேட்டன? Do we need Linking Language?

Those people find utility in Hindi would learn it, why should you bother? Why should you mandate it through New Education Policy?

If inclusion of Hindi as THIRD language in Draft Education Policy is Imposition. (ஹிந்தி திணிப்பு!!) Then "Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009" which is not just providing opportunity for EDUCATION, it is IMPOSITION OF EDUCATION.

News: 40 Schools managed by Associates of DMK party-men, has Opportunity to learn Hindi. But the Party predominantly take forward the Agitation against Hindi Optional Language in the New Education Policy (Draft). It is to be noted that the party previously opposed the establishment of Jawahar Navodya Schools in Rural parts of Tamil Nadu.

Do we need a Lingua franca?

Literally it is not RashtraBhasha or National Language.... it is for convenience.... it could be a Link Language.... for #SocialCapital #Fraternity #NationalIntegration.

சக மனிதனை மதிக்க, அவன் உணர்வை புரிந்துகொல்ல நமக்கு ஒரு பொதுவான மொழி வேண்டும். #LinguaFranca #UnityInDiversity

அந்த மொழியில் நாம் பாண்டித்தியம் பெறப்போவதில்லை. அடிப்படை உறையாடல்லுக்கு மட்டுமே. தேசிய ஒருமை பட்டை கொண்டுவர உதவும். இது அரசியல் அமைப்பு குழு அன்றே முடிவு செய்த ஒன்று.

#NationalIntegration #Constitutionalism

How deep we THINK on any issue?

We don't even apply RATIONALITY while choosing our representatives (i.e. while casting our Vote)
When we just carried away by "illogical, irrational" Memes and Views of others (mostly it is from biased Media or Political parties with vested interest)

Why our visionary leaders thought of having a Common Language or National Language or Link Language? #LinguaFranca

What Dr.B.R. Ambedkar thought?

//Ambedkar knew that to tie the entire nation in the form of linguistic unity, Sanskrit could only be eligible for official language. //
Read more.....
https://thearticle.in/story-hub/babasaheb-sanskrit-language-can-mitigate-indias-linguistic-differences/

What Rajaji thought? Why he opposed Hindi?

//Crude majority tyranny is not democracy. This should not be permitted if India is to remain united and is to command some world respect yet – despite its economic bankruptcy. This must be understood clearly. The Congress President’s disapproval of the Bill should be a lesson to the Congress Government and its impetuous language policy.//

//I have urged the Prime Minister to put off the question until our economic problems are solved when a national convention of competent leaders may be called to reconsider the whole issue dispassionately and with a constructive attitude. //
Read more....
https://swarajyamag.com/from-the-archives/rajaji-in-1968-hindi-is-at-best-the-language-of-a-large-minority

What Mahatma Gandhi thought? Why it was not reflected in our Polity?

//MAHATMA GANDHI appealed to the people of the north to learn a south Indian language, thus reciprocating the south’s acceptance of Hindi as national language. //

//Gandhi’s spiritual leadership of Indian politics had to be supplemented by the law-making efforts of others like Jawaharlal Nehru.//

//To be sure, from his time in South Africa, where he had the opportunity to compare the Boers’ language pride with the absence of any such sentiment among the Indians he worked with, Gandhi took a keen interest in matters of language.//

Read more....
https://thewire.in/politics/gandhi-jinnah-nehru-language-ramachandra-guha

Is it Conspiracy of Bhakthals?

In essence, is it a reflection of Hindi Chauvnism, carried by RSS devotees to full feel their leader's Aspiration?

//The RSS has always been clear that all Bharatiya languages are national languages. The second Sarsanghchalak of RSS, Sri Guruji Golwalkar had shared his views on ‘The Language Problem’ in two interviews to Organiser, published in December 1957 and October 1967. //

// I consider all our languages as national languages. They are equally our national heritage. Hindi is one among them which, by virtue of its countrywide usage, has been adopted as the State Language. It will be wrong to describe Hindi alone as the national language and others as provincial languages. //
Read more...
https://www.organiser.org/Encyc/2019/6/3/Sri-Guruji-Golwalkar-on-The-Language-Problem.html

Of course, Hindi is not an Ancient Language. It has less utility for scriptures, manuscript, grammar...

But it has lot to associated with the Freedom struggle... Article 51A(b) says "to cherish and follow the noble ideals which inspired our national struggle for freedom."

//Swami Dayanand (1824-1883), like Gandhi, hailed from Gujarat. He used Sanskrit as the medium of religious disputation and preaching. But in 1873, while visiting Calcutta, he came across Keshub Chunder Sen of Brahmo Samaj. Sen advised him to use Hindi instead of Sanskrit to increase his reach amongst the masses. Interestingly neither Swami Dayanand nor Keshub Chunder Sen were native Hindi speakers. He heeded to the friendly advice and mastered Hindi thoroughly in a short time. He wrote his magnum opus Satyarth Prakash (1875) in Hindi. The Arya Samaj founded by him acted as a powerful agency to popularize Hindi.//

Read more....
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/printrelease.aspx?relid=170738

What the Constituent Assembly decided?
//It was on 14 September 1949 (Commemorated as HINDI DIVAS) that the Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi in Devanagari script as the official language of the Indian union after a long and animated debate. Part XVII of the Constitution comprising Articles 343 to 351 deals with the subject.//

Read more on the debate...
https://indiankanoon.org/doc/173426/

We should put little more effort understand the Politics of Language?
What the former Home Minister P.Chidambaram (as voice of the Government of the day) said?
https://youtu.be/gXLeyxVmtL0

Some other views....

Maridhas's Clarification on Recent Anti-Hindi Agitation....
https://youtu.be/runSUCBU-h0

Chaanakya "Pandey" view on 400 pages Draft Education Policy and Hindi Imposition....
https://youtu.be/cjY2bJFOYYQ

Are we going to get DESTROYED by the POLITICS or to abide by the VISION of CONSTITUTION MAKERS to promote FRATERNITY among all citizens?

#LinguaFranca #LinkLanguage
அம்பேத்கார் சமஸ்கிருதத்தை ஆதரித்தார்... சிலர் ஹின்துஸ்தானி (ஹிந்தி), ஹின்டவி (உருது வழி) போன்று பரிந்துரைத்து விவாதித்தனர்....

#LinguaFranca for #SocialCapital #RashtraBhasha

Finally, Lines of Modern Manu Dr. Bhimarao Ambekar....
(Views on Linguistic states)

//One State, one language " is a universal feature of almost every State. Examine the constitution of Germany, examine the constitution of France, examine the constitution of Italy, examine the constitution of England, and examine the constitution of the U.S.A. " One State, one language " is the rule. Wherever there has been a departure from this rule there has been a danger to the State. //

Note: In Polity, <Capital>"S" State means NATION and <Small> "s" state means Provinces.

//One reason is that democracy cannot work without friction unless there is fellow-feeling among those who constitute the State. Faction fights for leadership and discrimination in administration are factors ever present in a mixed State and are incompatible with democracy.//

//The formation of Linguistic States, although essential, cannot be decided by any sort of hooliganism. Nor must it be solved in a manner that will serve party interest. It must be solved by cold blooded reasoning. This is what I have done and this is what I appeal to my readers to do.//

Read more....
http://www.ambedkar.org/ambcd/

எப்படியாவது நம்ம கருத்த அடுத்தவன் மேல தினிச்சிடனும்... இது நம்ம எல்லாருக்கும் இருக்கும் இயல்பு...

#Hindi #LiguaFranca #Constitutionalism
விஞ்ஞானயுகம், வெங்காய யுகம், திணிப்பு, இனிப்பு என்றெல்லாம் அவர் அவர் பங்குக்கு பேசுகிறார்கள்....

தமிழும், ஆங்கிலமும் நம் இரு கண்கள்?
#InternationalLanguage
அவை இரண்டு கண்கலாக இருப்பின், ஹிந்தி மூக்கு கண்ணாடியாக இருப்பதில் என்ன பிரெச்சனை?
"ஹிந்தி எதிர்ப்பை" அரசியல் கொள்கையாக கொண்டவர்களுக்கு இது புரியாது.....
40-50 வருடத்துக்கு முன்னாடி பேசியவற்கு முட்டு கொடுபதல்ல...
சற்று நம்ம கொஞ்சம் ஆழ்ந்து சிந்திகின்றோமா... அதுதான் முக்கியம்...

Whether they make #Emotional Appeal ( பெரும்பாலும் மேடையில் பேசி கைத்தட்டு வாங்குபவர்கள்) or #Intellectual Inquiry (சிந்தனையை தூண்டுவது)

இந்த முன்னெடுபினால் வரும் நன்மைகள் என்ன?

Hindi is not the Language for DEVELOPMENT unlike English, French, Spanish, C, C++, JAVA et al.... Then??

True lines of Dr.B.R. Ambedkar (Views on LINGUISTIC STATES) 

// Why do Tamils hate Andhras and Andhras hate Tamils ? Why do Andhras in Hyderabad hate Maharashtrians and Maharashtrians hate Andhras ? Why do Gujaratis hate Maharashtrians and Maharashtrians hate Gujaratis ? The answer is very simple. It is not because there is any natural antipathy between the two. The haired is due to the fact that they are put in juxtaposition and forced to take part in a common cycle of participation, such as Government. There is no other answer.So long as this enforced juxtamposition remains, there will be no peace between the two.//

Many people worry about #HyperNationalism, but least bothered about #HypoNationalism sown by the #Regionalism, #Separatism, #DivisivePolitics #Egoism..... What the Three-Language policy or #IdeaofLinguaFranca could achieve?

There is wide divide between North-South especially because of Western Invention of Aryan-Dravidian Thoery..... Lot of misconception among people (i.e. Lunging Dance, Madrasi, Panipoori karana, Beedavaayan,... etc) This idea of "Link Language" envisaged originally in the INDIAN CONSTITTUTION  is to bring in.....

#SocialCapital

இந்தியாவுல இருக்க 45% மக்கல்கிட்ட ஆங்கிலமின்றி சுலபமா, எளிமையா பேச முடியும்... "அன்பும், அறனும் உடைதாயின்... " சொல்லி...

#NationalIntegration

அம்பேத்கார் எண்ணியது போல... #Fellow-feeling... இந்தியா வேற, நம்ம வேற சொல்லி யோசிக்கமாட்டோம்...

#Fraternity
பீடாவாயன், பானிபூரிகாரன் சொல்லி வெறுப்பு பரப்பமாட்டோம்...

#Development
நம்ம தொழில மத்த மாநிலங்களுக்கு கொண்டு செல்ல முடியும்....

#Interstate Trade&Commerce
தற்சார்பு பொருளாதாரம் பேசுவோர்... தமிழகம் தனக்கான தேவையான எல்லா பொருளையும் உற்பத்தி செய்ய முடிகிறதா என்று?

#MutualBenefit
காந்தி சிந்தித்தது போல... இந்தி எடுத்துகிட்டா... அவங்கள் தமிழ் கற்க வைக்க முடியும்...

#Representation
நம்ம பிரச்சனைய மத்திய அரசு பெசுதா, அவங்க மேற்கொள்ளும் பாரப்புரை என்ன,.. இதுலாம் நல்லவே புரிந்துகொல்ல முடியும்...

#SoftPower #Memes
நம்ம கலாச்சாரம், பண்பாடு, மொழி வளமை அவங்களுக்கு கொண்டு போக முடியும்... நாளைக்கே ஐ.நா. சபைலயோ உலக வங்கிலயோ இந்தியாவுக்கான அலுவல் மொழியா எதை பரிந்துரை செய்வீர்கள்?? நிரந்தர உறுப்பினர் அந்தஸ்த்து வரும்போதும்....

Ps. Are we against Three-Language formula as it touches our Ego or Really we find nothing progressive in the 400 page Draft Education Policy.

Summary of the Report,
https://www.prsindia.org/report-summaries/draft-national-education-policy-2019

அரசியல் அமைப்பு அடிப்படையில் கூறுவது... தனிமனித கண்ணியம், தேசிய ஒருமைப்பாடு, சகோதரத்துவம்....

#Fraternity
நேருவின் விசாலமான பார்வையில் அது "உலகளாவிய" சகொதுரத்துவமாக உருவெடுக்கு என்பதுதான்...

#UniversalBrotherhood
ஆனால் நாம் இன்றும் வெறுப்பரசியல் பேசிகொண்டிருக்கிறோம்... "குல்லா, பாவடை, பானி பூரிகாறன், பீடவாயன்..." என்று.

Read my previous write-up on this topic...
http://karthikmalmarugan.blogspot.com/2019/06/rashtrabhashalingua-franca-for-social.html?m=1

RashtraBhasha....Lingua Franca for Social Capital

Why we need Lingua Franca? Why TN against Hindi Imposition?

Refer Article 343 ( Provision for 'Hindi' as Linguafranc) and Article 351 (Directives on Duty of Union to develop Hindi) of Indian Constitution drafted by Modern Manu Dr.B.R. Ambedkar. (Details in Comment box [1])

It is not as most of us believe it to be "Hindutva" Constitution or "Hindian" Constitution.

It is time for RATIONALITY... layoff Ego and Approach things with open mind...

What is Three Language Policy? 

Options before us,

1. Mother Tongue + English + Any Indian Language. (It is the best option, but it will not build common language for the diverse country) Common Identity is very important to REPRESENT ACROSS THE WORLD. #UNITY_IN_DIVERSITY.

2. Mother Tongue + English + Hindi (If this FORMULA followed Hindi speaking states the formula will get modified as Mother Tongue/Hindi +  English i.e. it will become Two-Language Policy. In fact, It will be DISCRIMINATORY)

3. Mother Tongue (Regional Language) + English + Hindi (Linguafranc) for the Non-Hindi States

4. Hindi (Mother Tongue / Linguafranc) + English + Any Indian Language ( As many of us believe, they will choose Tamil, Bihari, Odia or Telugu based on where they get better opportunity to sell "Panni Poori)

Anyways, OBJECTIVE (as mentioned CONSTITUTIONAL DIRECTIVE) is to build "Linguafranc". Obviously the Draft New Education Policy intention is promotion/ development of Hindi, not simply IMPOSITION (as the case of 1963)

Why we need Linguafranc?

It is to create SOCIAL CAPITAL.

In essence, the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively.

Let's ponder over some of the Intellectual questions of Dravidian leaders.... 

Q1: Why we need TWO SEPARATE doors for Big dog and Small dog?

My Argument:

If so, we don't even need TWO LANGUAGE policy.... ENGLISH is enough as SOME Legends claimed way back (Talk in English with Housemaid, Milkman, Streetvendors... will it not be an imposition again?)

இதெல்லாம் அறிவு பூர்வமான கேள்வி என்றால் என்ன சொல்வது?
நம்ம வீட்டுகுள்ள போக வர "ஒரு" கதவு இருக்குல, அப்புறம் காத்து வரதுக்கு எதுக்கு தனியா ஜன்னல்?

Q2: If language of majority should be declared as NATIONAL language why not make Crow National Bird instead of PEACOCK?

My Argument:

For better clarification, What is National Insignia? Whether all the National symbols has same/common selection criteria? Is it not based on Uniqueness... but... Isn't the Common language or Linguafrac has different utility? Should it not be based on Majority/Popularity. (Provisions of Indian Constitution already mentioned above.... "We the People of India solemnly.... " Details in the comment box [2])

There is no concept of NATIONAL LANGUAGE..... "Tamil and English are my two eyes" said by "Legends" because they imagine that the concept of INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE is existing despite being intelligent enough to question the CONSTITUTIONALITY of NATIONAL LANGUAGE.

Q3: Those people find utility in Hindi would learn it, why should you bother? Why should you mandate it through New Education Policy?

If inclusion of Hindi as THIRD language in Draft Education Policy is Imposition. (ஹிந்தி திணிப்பு!!) Then "Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009" which  is not just providing opportunity for EDUCATION, it is IMPOSITION OF EDUCATION. 
Ps: 40 Schools managed by Associates of DMK party-men, has Opportunity to learn Hindi. 

Q4: Our people are not even good in Mother Tongue... why should we make one more language compulsory?

And

Q5: Tamil is more ancient language and has more inscription.... Rather It should be made mandatory.... Why Hindi (formerly Hindustani) is preferred?

My Argument,
It is not about MASTERING any other language or DUMBING your Mother Tongue. All we are making now a days is EMOTIONAL OUTBURST which make then easy to politicize any issue for that matter... In schools we learnt ENGLISH... are we master in it? It is about learning few words.... it would integrate NORTH and SOUTH... enahance #Social_Capital (I.e. Building Trust, Harmony in the social and in the broader sense NATIONAL INTEGRATION) This gap/divide/fissure is the SURVIVAL point for many POLITICAL PARTIES in TAMIL NADU.... In essence, the #Separatist_Ideologies

It is very clear,

Hindutva "Sangi" or Dravidian "Poralis" is nothing less than the Expression/ Voice of EGOISM.

தான் மட்டும் தான் "அறிவாளி" மத்தவன் எல்லாம் மூலை இல்லாதவன் பொல் எண்ணிக்கொண்டு "Anti-Indian, Sangi, Naxals, Poralis, Bhakthals" என்றெல்லாம் "பட்டம்" கொடுப்பது....  SILENCING the Opposite views and Dissent by STIGMATIZATION is nothing less than FACISM. (Details in the comment box[3])

As quoted by one of my friend "When emotional instigations overrule, rational distinctions are given a good bye. And we are not even able to distinguish between a draft and a decision !"

What Tamil taught us?

பாலையும் நீரையும் பிரித்து உண்ணும் அன்னப்பறவை போல் வேண்டியவற்றை   எடுத்துக்கொண்டு பயன் பெறுங்கள்.

What Dravidam taught us?

தென்னை மரத்துல் "கள்" மட்டும் தான் கிடைக்கும் போல தோப்பையே அழித்த "பகுத்தறிவு"

ஒரு தேசிய தலைவரை "பனைமரமேறி" என்று இழிவு படுத்திய "சமூக நீதி". (தென்னை பனை மரம் ஏறவும் அட்களில்லை, இப்ப அந்த மரமும் நிறைய இல்ல... விடுங்க.... "ஒரு தொழிலை இழிவுபடுத்தி நாம் சாதித்தவை" என்று கல்வெட்டில் பொறித்து கொள்வோம்... என் சகாக்கள் இழந்தவற்றை மீட்க்கும் பணியில் உள்ளனர்... இயர்க்கை காக்கப்படும்)

There are "Intellectual" people in every BLOC to JUSTIFY the deeds of their leaders... (Details in comment box [4])

"நான் சொல்றத அப்படியே நம்பவேண்டாம், உன் மனசுக்கு சரின்னு பட்ட ஏத்துக்கோ" என்று சொன்ன பெரியாரும், திராவிடமும் விவாதமின்றி ஏற்கபடவேண்டும் சொல்லி நிக்குற பகலவர்களை கண்டு பெரியாரே தீ குளிச்சிருப்பாறு.

தமிழர்களே!!! தமிழர்களே!!!

TAMIL and TAMIL PEOPLE are enlightened SHINING SUN ( not rising sun). DRAVIDAM is an ECLIPSE, it is temporary. Wakeup call!!!

Lastly, #Nesamani has given DEATH KNOCK to the #SRMSuicideIncident, #SwearingInCermony, #TNWaterCrisis.....

Yet few matters are in ICU WARD... misinformation on #TNagainstHindiImposition will take care of the FUNNERAL of mentioned issues.

I would like to recall a quote by my friend, "Let's fall in love with languages not with politics.."
#EndofIdeologies would pave way to
#IdeaofSycretism for #Humanism to thrive. #SocialCapital

கடைசியா இந்தி படிக்கனுமா நம்ம?

ஆமாம்!!! கண்டிப்பா... ஹிந்திகாரன், பிஹார்காரன், பெங்காளி, மராத்தி வித்தியாச கூட தெரியல நமக்கு... அதுக்காச்சு நாலு ஹிந்தி வார்த்த தெரிஞ்சிக்கனும்....

Few months back I mentioned about it....
Our Future Generation should learn to speak more Indian Languages..... Not Essentially Hindi..... As many as.... Good Initiative by MHRD
https://youtu.be/6RBl5yrn83g

#Bhasha_Sangam #Unity_in_Diversity #National_Integration

Try it here, Select Any of the 22 Language
http://mhrd.gov.in/bhashasangam/?fbclid=IwAR0hIpIeLlAxhZs5Z3WRrrCxm-nrmHyW86I-PLd3TWvjQfaLSvgLxb5wGeE

Ps. 1963 Office language Act made continuation of ENGLISH after Agitation by DMK led Movement.... Previously 1937 Rajaji proposed to make Hindi Compulsory in Schools it created the first Agitation led by Justice Party (Ernstwhile DK)
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References:

[1]. //Article 343 (1): The official language of the Union shall be Hindi in Devanagari script The form of numerals to be used for the official purposes of the Union shall be the international form of Indian numerals.
Article 343 (2): Notwithstanding anything in clause ( 1 ), for a period of fifteen years from the commencement of this Constitution, the English language shall continue to be used for all the official purposes of the Union for which it was being used immediately before such commencement: Provided that the president may, during the said period, by order authorise the use of the Hindi language in addition to the English language and of the Devanagari form of numerals in addition to the international form of Indian numerals for any of the official purposes of the Union.
Article 351: Directive for development of the Hindi language It shall be the duty of the Union to promote the spread of the Hindi language, to develop it so that it may serve as a medium of expression for all the elements of the composite culture of India and to secure its enrichment by assimilating without interfering with its genius, the forms, style and expressions used in Hindustani and in the other languages of India specified in the Eighth Schedule, and by drawing, wherever necessary or desirable, for its vocabulary, primarily on Sanskrit and secondarily on other languages.//
Constitution of India, 1950

Read further,
(a.) Ambedkar support for Sanskrit
https://thearticle.in/story-hub/babasaheb-sanskrit-language-can-mitigate-indias-linguistic-differences/
(b.) Nehru's dilemma
https://www.asian-voice.com/Opinion/Columnists/Hari-Desai/Nehru-on-Sanskrit-as-a-Global-Language

[2]. // “Munshi-Ayyangar formula” named after the people who had drafted it: KM Munshi and Gopalaswami Ayyangar. This formula did not provide for a national language. It proposed that Hindi in the Devanagari script would be the “official language of the Union” and that English would continue to be used for all official purposes for fifteen years from the date of the Constitution, which could be extended by Parliament. This compromise was accepted by all.//
https://www.firstpost.com/india/why-hindi-isnt-the-national-language-6733241.html

[3]. //If the bhakt is a blinkered bigot, the liberal is a sulky space cadet without a plan...... You have cut off yourself from a significant number of people who opted for this government for reasons other than religion.//

Our பகுத்தறிவு #Dravidian Stocks are much more sulky... for them NDA's (i.e. Modi's) success is all
(1) Panipurikaran conspiracy....
(2) Manipulation of EVMs #Overloaded Rationalism.

//As a “liberal,” you must acknowledge multiple rationales and avoid indiscriminate demonisation of people who didn’t buy into your reality. //
Liberals Must Read... https://qz.com/india/1628320/avengers-harry-potter-memes-wont-help-liberals-handle-modi-win/