German Out Sanskrit In

Anand Shankar

November 16 at 4:37pm · New Delhi · 

Skip to 17:00 for the crux of the matter .
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German Out, Sanskrit In: Ideology Before Education?

79,000 students studying German at Kendriya Vidyalayas will now have to shift to Sanskrit or another Indian language after Education Minister Smriti Irani said teaching German broke the government's three-language policy. In a rapidly globalising world,...

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  Swagat Borah I am passionate about sanskrit and learnt it everyday from class 5 to 10. It helped me form the basis of a lot of principles that i still follow. But this is crazy, u can't force feed any language to anyone. "Teaching sanskrit can help prevent crimes" ??? WTF shit mentality is this.

  November 16 at 8:25pm · Like · 1
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  Anand Shankar Who is saying Sanskrit can prevent crimes? That person is an idiot.

  November 17 at 10:22pm · Like
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  Anand Shankar As I understand the policy, it was the MoU which forced KV students to learn German.
  The 3 language policy has more than 20 languages including German which can be offered to the students. Instead of an Indian language, German is being taught....See More

  November 17 at 10:34pm · Like
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  Swagat Borah "My take on the issue is that the students should be given a choice to 
  learn which ever language they want instead of a fixed 3rd language like
  Sanskrit or Tami" - my thoughts exactly

  November 17 at 11:17pm · Like