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Teaching English to the sheep

Teaching English to the sheep

In the context of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Governments introducing English medium in all Government schools to give confidence to the village children and teachers, Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd gave these 10 youtube lectures in simple  English. They cover a whole range of agrarian, animal and human relations. They also trace how the industrial process started in the villages.  These lessons[Read More…]

by 19/04/2023 Comments are Disabled Life/Philosophy
English India In The Making

English India In The Making

October 5th is International Teachers Day. It is also Indian English Day. English language education has a history of 205 years in India. Incidentally October 5th is also my 70th birthday. My thirty years campaign for English medium education for poor children in the Government schools has come to a meaningful stage. William Carey and Raja Ramohan Roy started the[Read More…]

by 28/09/2022 Comments are Disabled India
The Goddess of English is a symbol of renaissance for the Dalits of Banka -Soure/BBC

English in India

Indian society is deeply fissured. The fault lines lie along caste, sub caste, class, religion, region, language and several other overt and unstated domains. The linguistic division of states and thereby of Indian society has generated linguistic chauvinism. At the pan Indian level, we hear of Hindi chauvinism but there are regional chauvinisms originating from the four power centres of[Read More…]

by 07/10/2021 Comments are Disabled India
What English Has Done To India And The World?

What English Has Done To India And The World?

By October 5, 2021 English language life in India is 204 years. For the last few years the celebration of Indian English Day on that day is catching up. Ever since the first English medium school started in the then Calcutta in 1817 on October 5, India never allowed that language to die. It has been growing and growing not[Read More…]

by 24/09/2021 Comments are Disabled Life/Philosophy
Why The Farmers Need English Education? Indian English Day Diary

Why The Farmers Need English Education? Indian English Day Diary

Every  October 5 is being celebrated as Indian English day by several equal medium education lovers in India. This is 203rd   year of the birth of English medium school education in India. The first English medium school in Calcutta was started by William Carey a British missionary, who came from a cobbler family background. He came to India in 1793[Read More…]

by 03/10/2020 Comments are Disabled India
Macaulay Putras And The New Education Policy: Shudras/Dalits/Adivasis Must Be Vigilant

Macaulay Putras And The New Education Policy: Shudras/Dalits/Adivasis Must Be Vigilant

The BJP Education Policy (BEP)2020 has been formalised with a Cabinet approval on July 30, 2020. It is drafted by Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan (79) the BJP’s Education Committee Chairman. He was the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). He is an expert on sophisticated war weapon production centre, including nuclear weapons, but not of economic and social development of[Read More…]

by 01/08/2020 1 comment India
Manifesto For English Education For A Post Corona India

Manifesto For English Education For A Post Corona India

Post corona India will be more poverty-ridden. Poverty will expand the scope of inequality as we have seen how inequality exists between Ambanis, Adani and other monopoly capitalists on the one hand and the 250 million migrant workers who walked thousands of miles without food, with children and old women dying and suffering on the national high ways on the[Read More…]

by 08/06/2020 Comments are Disabled India
Jaganmohan Reddy’s Fight To Impart English Education In Government Schools Met With Resistance

Jaganmohan Reddy’s Fight To Impart English Education In Government Schools Met With Resistance

Human equality is a major problem of India. Historically ownership of property created human inequality in all countries. Caste gradations in education also created an unbridgeable inequality in India. This inequality has been carried very successfully to modern India through caste system and education. Fighting for human equality from power is more difficult than fighting from civil society even in[Read More…]

by 02/06/2020 Comments are Disabled India