Siddharth Varadarajan reports the recently re- printed speech that Balraj Sahni gave at the Jawaharlal Nehru University few days before he died in 1973. His suggestion to popularise Hindustani in Roman script may be out of place, but his analysis of the problem, Varadrajan contends, is right on spot.
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From that point of view English is a God sent gift to our ruling classes.Why? For the simple reason that the English language is beyond the reach of the toiling millions of our country. In olden times Sanskrit and Persian were beyond the reach of the toiling masses. That is why the rulers of those times had given them the status of state language. Through Sanskrit and Persian the masses were made to feel ignorant, inferior, uncivilized, and unfit to rule themselves. Sanskrit and Persian helped to enslave their minds, and when the mind is enslaved bondage is eternal.
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Extremely interesting read. one of the best that has been put up on Blog bharti
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