JOIN USJnanapith award winner Dr Chandrashekara Kambara has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to bring an act of Parliament overruling the Supreme Court verdict to not allow regional language as a medium of instruction in schools.
In his letter dispatched on July 18, Kambara has said that the SC verdict: “........apart from constituting a blow and insult to our rich languages and literatures, most of which are older than English, seeks to replace our rich cultural and linguistic diversity by a new kind of uniformity represented by English.”
He questioned as to what kind of India would it be when everyone in the country will speak English only and will not recognise the names of the nation’s great writers and their works.
“We, representatives of writers of all Indian languages whose literary merits, past and present, surpasses the achievement any other country in the world, plead that the use of regional languages as medium of instruction be implemented through an act of Parliament to preclude any further damage to the supremacy of our regional and national languages and cultures.”