The new National Education Policy emphasises primary education in the mother tongue. The medium of instruction up to Class 5 should preferably be the mother tongue. In our country where all things female are generally not given much priority, it’s good to see mother take priority over father for once.
But citizens are now plunged into a quandary over what exactly is their mother tongue. In an India where marriages are increasingly inter-state, where mom and dad could be from south and north, if mother prefers ‘Vanakkam’ and dad is yelling ‘Ki farak painda’ is one’s mother tongue Tamil or Punjabi? Also, if one is living in Mumbai and speaking the language of the Mumbaikar, isn’t it more likely that instead Read More
