Vikram Seth has spoken eloquently about gay rights; Rahul and Sonia Gandhi have spoken about need to legalize consensual sex among same sex adults, while Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP’s) Rajnath Singh, not surprisingly, has clarified that homosexuality is unnatural and alien to India’s ethos, culture and society. The TV channels, meanwhile, have devoted prime time…
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The attack on English in India
According to BJP president Rajnath Singh, the English language has been a “destroyer of Indian culture’’ and has caused a “great loss’’ to India. Anybody who has heard Singh speak will know his mother cannot be proud of her son’s English speaking abilities. Going by Singh’s logic, we should have been better off without our…
Siddharth Srivastava 