Hats off to HC for making our BULLSHIT literary savants to understand the importance of ENGLISH!

By Jayakishore Bayadi
Finally honorable HC passed the message loud and clear. English is necessary in the present world. Now, the private schools can teach in English and parents can choose the medium of instruction for their children.

Ruled the great Karnataka High Court on Wednesday. Hats off to HC for such a landmark judgement. The Times of India Reports: The full Bench of the Karnataka High Court headed by Chief Justice Cyriac Joseph and comprising Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice N Kumar termed the Karnataka government’s 1994 order making Kannada a compulsory medium of instruction in primary schools as unconstitutional and ruled that parents had the freedom to choose the language for their wards.

The Karnataka Unaided Schools’ Managements Association had challenged the government’s order in the court in 1994. The ruling is welcome, considering parents had little choice in the matter for several years. The broader feeling is that globalization makes it imperative for nations to share English as a linguistic medium. A common language in areas such as science, technology and business cannot only augment efficiency levels, but also open up employment and entrepreneurial opportunities. Secondly, it’ll go a long way in removing the inequity in educational avenues for children coming from low-income families. Why should they be deprived of a choice? All this, however, should not in any way affect the promotion and growth of Kannada about which the court has given some suggestions.

In the 318-page judgment, the court observed: “The government policy compelling children studying in other government recognized schools (private) to have primary education only in the mother tongue or the regional language is violative of Article 19(1)(g), 26 and 30(1) of the Constitution. If the parents want their children to have primary education in English they are not committing any crime. It is neither illegal nor opposed to public policy. The choice of medium of instruction is left to parents and children.’’

MY PERSPECTIVE: In my opinion, this is a landmark judgment because; there are lots of guys and gals in our semi urban and rural area in interior parts of the state who are deprived of studying in English medium. The situation is so pathetic that they don’t know even how to write a Leave Letter properly. If government brings in COMPULSURY KANNADA MEDIUM RULE, there is a chance that those guys will not get any chance to learn things in English. And every one knows that today’s globalized world needs ‘global talent’ who can deliver global quality.

It is a well-known fact that those who studied in the Kannada medium always struggle to deliver quality work in today’s corporate world’s requirements and hence suffer a lot. They are looked down on par with the guys who know very good communicative English, just because they don’t know how to communicate (verbal as well as written)in English effectively, despite having groovy potential to deliver the global quality work.

For Chameleon natured, so called eminent Kannada writers like U R Ananthamurthy, Champa, and many others, who advocates or press for imposition of “Compulsory Kannada medium”, might have got jolt from this historical judgment. May be, for next few weeks, our Kannada Press fraternity will run a massive campaign on this subject containing the opinions (normally it will be always a hokum) of these “Nonsensical” writers or supposed “Think tanks”, who always deliver “Bullshit” or copied stuffs from western literatures in the name of “Creativity” and “Inspiration”.

We had great literary personalities like Shivaram Karanth, Masti Venkatesha Aiyangar, and DVG who ‘really’ contributed for Kannada literature. But important thing we have to remember here is they all lived what they wrote! They were never Chameleons. It’s our misfortune that we don’t have such celebs between us now except a few like S.L.Bhyrappa.

My sincere request to honorable government is that please do not listen to the nonsense writers (most of them send their children to Baldwins, St. Josephs or Bishop Cottons) like Baraguru Ramachandrappa, Champa, silly politicians like Vatal Nagaraj, or members of Kannada 'Oraatagarara' Sangha, if I am correct, Kannada Rakshana Vedike and other goons operating in the name of Kannada. Because ultimately they won’t suffer, as they just want PR in the media to sell their crap.

However, the real sufferers are those in interior parts of our state who really need education in global standard to conquer the world. And to achieve that, they need only ENGLISH, a good practical ENGLISH, nothing else!

Please let them learn what they want. Let them build their future on their own.
Mr. Yeddyurappa, please live, and let live.