No national language

Second semester already! Three courses again

- Language, Mind and Society conducted by Rama Kant Agnihostri. Started off with linguistics and peek into the Indian constitution. Hindi is not a national language! Yo! Only an official language. I t was cute when a classmate claimed that 'There is no human being who has Hindi as a mother tongue'. Hmm.. what are the implications of such a statement... Out of the 25 in our class 20 are from Daaleee. You know there is a universal grammar of cvcvcv alternations. Can you think of a word with ccccv format? If you do please let me know..any language..

- Curriculum and School by Padma Sarangapani. We also had two lectures of Krishna Kumar of NCERT. Very interesting one about modernity in pedgagogy. This is guy is a thinker, no doubt. It was pleasurable interacting with him.

- First Language Pedagogy by Maxine Bernsten and Jane Sahi. Strangely both women are not of Indian origin but have chosen to be Indian citizens. Expecting it to be very interesting. Do you know why when two men who have Tulu as their first language prefer to speak in English? That way they will not disclose the class of society they come from and also will not have to worry whether to show respect to the other or not.

Another interesting fact - by the time a child is 4 they are an linguistic adult. I have deliberate lydecided to change the grammar to use plural instead of revealing the gender! Language is not a thing, you cannot reify it, it is a process after all...