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General Forum: Current 'Affairs' | | DID INDIA REALLY SUFFER UNDER THE BRITISH RULE.? | |
| Hi,SRPK,gd mrng, While i agree on that issue of word power/ sentence power. I am sure India is one of the leading destined countries, when it comes to outsourcing, even overtaking china in this matter. One basic reason being Indians have been doing a good job working in call centres, medical transcription, legal transcription(not much)on their skills in english and related accent aswell.
Posted by: DoBoy At: 2, Aug 2005 1:05:30 PM IST
DoBoy,
You are right. English, as alink language is very essential for the progress of an andividual as well as a nation.
But, observe some countries which have really progressed. They learnt that language to the extent they needed it. But they have not 'sacrificed' their own languages, traditions and cultures for the sake of 'aping' the British.
For a sub-continent-sized country like ours, the approach should be more pragmatic.
Today's English used by many guys consists of 'word power' but not 'sentence power'.
What is the real use of this sort of 'English'?
Posted by: SATYA RAMA PRASAD KALLURI At: 2, Aug 2005 12:22:58 PM IST
What about the English language itself?We cannot be as competitive as we are now, had english not been one of the subjects?
Posted by: DoBoy At: 1, Aug 2005 5:53:51 PM IST
paripaalana maaTa ellaagunnaa ee kriMdi vishayaalalO maatraM briTish`vaaLLanu mechchukOka tappadu -
1) vyaktulugaa vaaLlallO kaapaTyaM takkuva.
vaaLLaki (vyaktigataMgaa)ishTam kaligitE vaaLLu eMtaTi lOtukeinaa veLLi, vijayavaMtaMgaa bayaTaki vastaaru.
udaa : broun` dora teluguku chEsina saahitya sEva
2) vaaLLu veLLipOyina 58 samvatsaraala tarvaataneinaa vaaLLa goppa lakshaNameina
'samaya paalana (punctuality) manaM nErchukOlEkapOyaaM. mana batukuleppuDoo peivaaDini saMtOshapeTTaDaanikE saripOyaayi.
ee rOjuki kooDa kaavaalanE aalasyaMgaa vachchi, siggu lEkuMDaa
virraveegE aapheesarlanu, raajakeeyulanu choostE rOta puDutumdi.
(prastutaM kEMdra kEbineT`lO unna oka peddamanishi
(eeyana okappuDu speekar`gaa kooDaa unnaaDu) boMbaayi eyir`pOrT`ki reMDu gaMTalu aalasyaMgaa vastE, tama panulannee eeyanavalla cheDipOyaayani tOTi prayaaNeekulu ayanaku 'nachchajeppaTaaniki' prayatniMchaaraTa.
eeyana sasEmiraa - annaaDaTa. vaaLLaki kOpaM vachchi eTTakElaku eeyanachEta 'saaree' anipiMchagaligaaru. (adE goppa vijayaM vaaLLaki)
idee, manavaaLLaki 'samayaM' meeda unna gouravaM!
iMteMdukoo? mana en`jee`Olanu vELaki rappiMchaDaaniki jarigina 'raajaSEkhara' prahasanaM ee madhyanE kadaa navvulapaalayiMdi!
3) DaaDee, mammee anipiMchukOvaDamE manavaaLLlO chaalaamaMdi
nErchukunna iMgleeshu! illaaMTi cheeDE ekkuvagaa manaki aMTukuMdi.
4) prastutaM laMDan`lO mEmu choostunna Subhrata, 'anavasara prasaMgaalu, charchalu, vaagwaadaalu' lEkuMDaanE panulu chakachakaa jarigipOvaDaM, 'prabhutwaM unnaa adi kanipiMchaka pOvaDaM', kshaNakshaNaanikee meeku kaavalasina
bassu eMtasEpaTlO vastuMdO 'sarigaa' cheppagalagaDaM - ilaaMTivanniTinee manaM eppaTiki saadhiMchagalamO - ani talachukuMTE baadhavEyaka maanaTlEdu.
Posted by: SATYA RAMA PRASAD KALLURI At: 1, Aug 2005 5:11:44 PM IST
We hasve lost good leaders as well as patriots like Alluri Seeta Rama Raju.
Pasrsi's gained too much during Brit rule.
Posted by: Mr. M Kumar N At: 30, Jul 2005 11:39:41 AM IST
I worked for a very long period in a public sector in Kolar Gold Fields area (Karnataka). One of my erstwhile bosses told me that there was a through train from Marikuppam (KGF) to Madras (via Bangarapet) in 1930s, whereas one has to change at Bangarapet for this journey at present.
This train was not for the common man! It was mainly meant for the luxurious officers and also to carry the costly gold from this place to Madras.
Though we have to thank the Britishers for the railway network given to us, their laying pattern was very clever - direct link from port to port.
If they are big ports, connect them by broad gauge & if they are small ports, connect them by metre gauge!
Examples :
Madras to Calcutta, Bombay, Mangalore, Cochin etc. - Broad gauge
Machilipatnam to Marmugao Harbour etc. - Metre gauge
(Incidentally, the present Grand Trunk Express was running between Madras & Peshavar!)
Then, there were ships to tranship the goods (raw material like cotton, jute etc.) further, so as to take them to their country!
They were happily taking the raw material from here and giving employment to their people at England & again selling those goods in India!
(All this to say that looting was more & benefit was less.)
Posted by: SATYA RAMA PRASAD KALLURI At: 30, Jul 2005 1:15:31 AM IST
"DID INDIA REALLY SUFFER UNDER THE BRITISH RULE.?"
Any occupying power will drain an occupied countrty . there is no question of India not suffering ,but
Without the British there wouldnt have been a Netaji ,a Mahatma or a Jinnah .
To keep a land occupied ,the imperialist nation will use any kind of a tatic to occupy and there is no moral right or wrong .
The British Built Railways ,telecom etc ,but ,were they for the use of Indians ?I remember having read that the railways was used exclusively for the British and not for the Indians .
Posted by: Mr. Pit and the Pendulum At: 29, Jul 2005 10:55:24 PM IST
Doboy, blaming my ill-health on my grandfathers alcohol problem is a little too much, right?
Posted by: Your name is mine. At: 26, Jul 2005 6:02:02 PM IST
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This speaks volume!
Posted by: Mr. Vachaspathi V At: 29, Jul 2005 5:43:34 PM IST
Robert, i don' know the relevance of that proverb here. If u go back to earlier pages, you would c that the debate was that we got few pros and cons of the british rule. I never said, we only suffered.
Posted by: DoBoy At: 27, Jul 2005 10:51:37 AM IST
Raabart garu,
1)I meant some uneducated lot - when I said that there are still some people who believe the relationship of Mahatma & the Indira Priyadarhini Gandhi family. If they are like that, it benefits a particular party still.
May not their tribe increase!
2) Regarding Sandhyavandanam's antiquity, it is a matter of research. A left-oriented historian puts in one way, whereas the right-oriented historian puts it in a different way. I am sure that at least it was definitely older than the Mughal empire
3) Pakistan is the creation of the British.
4) I said that the concept of a single country was that of sages & seers. Break-away groups had been there in India since time immemorial and that is the bane of this country.
Right from the days of Jayachandra & Prithviraj, through the times of Jagjivan Ram (1977), till today's TRS party - spear-headed by KCR, the tendency to break away continues to exist in India.
Posted by: SATYA RAMA PRASAD KALLURI At: 26, Jul 2005 11:00:31 PM IST
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