Thursday, August 7, 2014

To study or not to study English: India debates | ummid.com

To study or not to study English: India debates | ummid.com

People describe English as 'colonial hangover', say its predominance has led to discrimination against people whose medium of education was Hindi
Nearly two centuries after Lord Macaulay championed the introduction of English as a medium of education in India in 1835, a debate is still raging on the suitability of what many describe as a "foreign language" in a polyglot nation that has 22 official languages and over 350 dialects.