NEP 2020 - Need of the hour

Need of the hour for every Indian Student:

1. Mother tongue as Teaching Medium
• Nobody in state speaks about this point - I don't know why
2. Excellence in International Language
• Everybody has accepted that Learning English is top priority
3. Excellence in National Language to build a strong nation
• Every Tamil and few others (Even BJP supporters like Sadhguru) is against mandating Hindi as national language

Let's be practical, let's not carry the baggage from history. Baggage of both hatredness as well as religious beliefs.

Let's take a roll...

There are treasures about India, its culture, people, knowledge - written in this language Sanskrit.

We should understand these treasures are widely seen as non-scientific by the current scientific world.

But those who follow these treasures say they have scientifically prove-able information too and they are not just Beliefs, Myths and Mere Stories.

But who are these people who has high regards for Sanskrit?

These are religious eccentrics. They say these are words from God - basically what they mean is these are spoken by Gods themselves from within humans - close to prophets - like Geethai.

It did not have any written form then - they were written in Devanagiri much later.

Like Tamil, Sanskrit was a well formed language of communication of advanced thinker tanks - but none of them cared to prove what they wrote and submit to world for arguments - they knew the truth and they simply passed on the truth - for example if you eat so and so plant's bark - so and so disease can be treated. Ok but how did they stored and retrieved this knowledge they accumulated over time - by vocally reciting them everyday morning via their disciple.

So everyday great guru's disciple will repeat all the old poems orally taught to them by their guru and add those that are newly wrote by their Guru today. This way all the students learnt veda via words - not written libi - but by vocally repeating them on a daily basis.

Now can they earn their daily bread by working in field if they are part of a neural network - in which - this important vedic information is stored?

You can visualize them all as one single cloud with availability of 99.9999% fault tolerance - highly sophisticated all weather machines that stores and retrieves this information and also has the intelligence to apply based on situation.

Now these high availability cloud machines - they cannot be used to sweep the floor or grow vegetables - or generate power - on the contrary we have to feed them with power and keep them cool with other machines like Air Condition Machines so that the fault tolerance and availability can be kept at high level.

They should not have any tension of the next portion of food they would need to keep them alive and where will it come from.

Realising this, the kings gave them lot of lands - understanding how important it is to keep this cloud of knowledge alive. All the peasants will work in the lands given to these guys who are all Vedic Champs.

Their only work is to write poems of truth based on their findings and recite them daily. Now once they become old, they have to transfer this knowledge to their kith and kin - its like transferring a possession. So they asked their sons to recite recite recite. This must have went on like this for quiet a lot and this is not a Chinese whisper - who carelessly hears and makes mistakes - thus it looses its original form.

These guys were meticulous guys. They had a huge responsibility on their shoulders - they should keep their mind sharp always so that the tradition of reciting vedas does not miss a beat - even if their heart may miss a beat - but they will not miss anything - this is one of the important reason why Sanskrit scholars are so very particular about pronunciation. Only when it was written using libi - people started making liberal careless mistakes - because it is already etched in history - they are no more required to be 100% perfect to take this forward to next gen - and thus today they are no more reverred.

Only very recently these sounds are written in Devanagiri script and is made available to wide audience. Now we do not need the human cloud to remember. They are not required to interpret as well - everything can be fed to a real cloud and made available for entire world to practice/research and publish more/ make use of the sutras and prepare concoctions to cure disease, for well being in general, for seeking truth through Patanjali yoga sutra and et al.

BJP/Modi is clear that they want every Indian to know Sanskrit and read veda and understand what is there. They are making Sanskrit a mandate for every student in India - as this is largely under the scope of State - all states have a insecurity that their language may fade away and give-in to Hindi/Sanskrit. So every state(which is not ruled by BJP) will fight against Hindi/Sanskrit infiltration in their state.

We say Tamil is the oldest, it has great treasure - like Thirukkural and many other literature that has deep meaning - like Sidhdhar Poems - Thirumoolar Thirumanthiram that carries lot of poems that talks about medicinal values that can cure disease.

We are not in the center of this union govt. The center is pro Hindi from the day 1 we got freedom in 1947 from British and came to be known as "Indian Republic". Thus it is in our constitution.

India needs 1 language to pull everything together and not broken away. Everybody including Dr Ambedkar saw Hindi as the only potential language that can achieve this. We Tamils kept saying - do not push Hindi as national language we should remain as union of states and not as "One India" as every state has got its own culture and language which is vere important for them.

So Modi Govt or any other govt that was in power at center says - give first importance to your mother tongue. Then to English as it is an international language required for economic growth - but give the third position to Hindi to unite all states under one nation - one ration - one language.

Today when Modi speaks, when assembly speaks - its all Hindi predominantly. Very few opt for English and Tamil remains only as quote - one can always talk in Tamil - but who will listen in assembly - other than a small portion of Tamil MPs.

We are not ready to unite under English. We see English as colonial language that has its enslaving roots on us - and thus everybody despises English to be used as Official Govt Language - though this is the only language that we use to get help from somebody from another state - as we never learnt Hindi.

All our neighborhood states have started teaching Hindi to all their school children - only Tamilnadu has not done this.

We must take NEP2020 as an opportunity to do two things:

1. Implement Tamil as medium of language to every school both Samacheer as well as CBSC - both govt and private that only allowed medium of teaching is Tamil. Period!!! Start with first 5 classes(LKG, UKG, 1, 2 and 3) now and then expand it to all the way till 5+3+3+4. The only exception looks like KV. 1225 schools against 1.5 million state schools owned by both govt and private. You know how negligible this is = 0.000816% is KV.
2. Implement the three language formula in all the schools - Mother tongue as language as well as medium of teaching in schools. English and Hindi as International and National Languages. For those who have Hindi as their mother tongue, they should take any classical language other than Sanskrit - they can even take Tamil.

Now what about Sanskrit - Sanskrit is an elective I believe - not sure if its mandatory - but BJP/Modi's agenda is to ensure every Indian student does not pass school without knowing Sanskrit as well. So may be it is kept for higher grades in schools as one more language subject for all - may be 1 or 2 years to ensure all are able to read/write and talk to some extent Sanskrit - this is to help get more scholars like students who are good in Engineering/Medicine to research in Veda - today not even 1% is interested in researching and finding truths hidden in Veda. We need lot of science minds to work on these vedic treasures.

This is our future. While we work on reservations to ensure all communities get equal opportunity to study and grow which is our bottom line - we have to also work on the raising our top line for those bright students out there.

I am sure students will excel - no point saying this is a burden and divert them into ignorance! When was a language a burden to our students? We must ensure to do these two part of NEP 2020!!!