Ms Nafisa Ali is trying hard to pull in the votes for her election. She was seen in church this morning where she attended Easter Mass.
How this goes is left to be seen because the Samajwadi Party manifesto doesn't instil much confidence. What is significant is that some newspapers have reported that the party plans to rake up the old English controversy. However, a news item today says that Mr Yadav is not against English schools but against imposition of English on the common people. Actually the common people or let's say the `poor' cannot afford a good English medium school. As a matter of fact schools that have some standard cannot cater to the thousands of parents who wish to give their children the best education available. A better idea is for all political parties to really work on improving the standard of education. There have been lots of promises and rehashing of ideas but nothing has improved. Now the plan is for reservation in all public institutions. This I'm sure will be resisted tooth and nail. It will also be resisted by othe political parties.
English today is spoken in some degree by everyone. English words have become a part of normal conversation, just as Hindi words are used by people who speak in English. Even Hindi publications make appropriate use of English words in the Hindi script. This is precisely what has added to the appeal of the English language. It is a language made up of words from several languages, including Sanskrit, and is growing every year with more words being added. This, we must agree with the experts, is how a language evolves.
Had English not expanded as a language it would have disappeared long ago.
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