Clique
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Seeing as we are ruining Mehro's thread about Pakistan, i think its time we have our own thread to talk about the various topics that rock our daily boat.
The topic of discussion very recently has been the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS).
A question i'd like to ask our resident members from the state of Maharastra. Why in good god's name is Raj Thackeray even supported, what has angered the good lads and lasses of Mumbai so much that they turn to the support of some party like the MNS which by all means is counter productive for them?. Marathi pride? Is Marathi pride really greater than the pride of being an Indian?
I saw an report by an news channel (CNN-IBN) which basically showed the double standards employed by the founding members of the MNS and the Shiv Sena. Apparently the children of the Thackerays go a well known English medium school which teaches Marathi only for 4 hours every week and that too only for 6 years. Isn't it a tad wrong to voice out and change every bloody sign in the land to Marathi and ask for every school to teach marathi and yet send your own kith and kin to a school which doesn't teach it very often?.
But that said, every language in this country is as important as the next. Fortunately or unfortunately we do have a national language and that's Hindi. Going out of your region means that you can only converse either in English or in Hindi. So for the growth of the country it is necessary to know these two languages. However, one cannot discount the importance of regional languages. So lads, would it be possible to have a nation wide formulae where you learn your primary education in English and have Hindi and the regional Language as your Second and third languages?. A burden on the child learning it no doubt. But the way i see it, its now become a necessity for the togetherness of the country.
P.S: Could some mod please get the pages with Indian discussion from the other thread and join them with this?
The topic of discussion very recently has been the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS).
A question i'd like to ask our resident members from the state of Maharastra. Why in good god's name is Raj Thackeray even supported, what has angered the good lads and lasses of Mumbai so much that they turn to the support of some party like the MNS which by all means is counter productive for them?. Marathi pride? Is Marathi pride really greater than the pride of being an Indian?
I saw an report by an news channel (CNN-IBN) which basically showed the double standards employed by the founding members of the MNS and the Shiv Sena. Apparently the children of the Thackerays go a well known English medium school which teaches Marathi only for 4 hours every week and that too only for 6 years. Isn't it a tad wrong to voice out and change every bloody sign in the land to Marathi and ask for every school to teach marathi and yet send your own kith and kin to a school which doesn't teach it very often?.
But that said, every language in this country is as important as the next. Fortunately or unfortunately we do have a national language and that's Hindi. Going out of your region means that you can only converse either in English or in Hindi. So for the growth of the country it is necessary to know these two languages. However, one cannot discount the importance of regional languages. So lads, would it be possible to have a nation wide formulae where you learn your primary education in English and have Hindi and the regional Language as your Second and third languages?. A burden on the child learning it no doubt. But the way i see it, its now become a necessity for the togetherness of the country.
P.S: Could some mod please get the pages with Indian discussion from the other thread and join them with this?