From: ndg0487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mr Controversial )
Subject: Re: soc.culture.tamil
Keywords: citizenship
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 06:29:42 GMT

chandra@cs.tamu.edu (Chandrasekaran Periannan) writes:

>In article <1992Apr15.160135.12070@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> raja@cps.msu.edu writes:
>>
>>In article <12381@tamsun>, (Chandrasekaran Periannan) writes:
>>
>>< 	Tamil is an official language in Singapore and have separate TV and
>>                                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>>Now, now, now.  How many TV channels does 
>>Singapore have?  India?

>	Well, if you want to go off at a tangent and calculate
>the ratios you have missed the point. 

>	The point is that the situation in Singapore shows 
>the respect that the society and the State has for the identity of
>ethnice groups constituting the society.

In India also you have T.V and radio station in Madras and other parts of T.N
which broadcasts programme in Tamil.Do you want a seperate channel for Tamil in Delhi and all other states ? It is not possible because our resourses are meagre
If you want tamil programme to be broadcast from the same channels then peoples
in other parts of India will have the same complain like you.
>	The Indian government has never shown any regards
>for the identity and aspirations of non-Hindi people:
>take the media, official languages policy  etc.

>	Don't you know how much the federal government
>there forces local non-Hindi TV stations to incorporate
>Hindi programs during prime time even though it would
>be most sensible and natural to let local language
>programs to be broadcast? Why should the Madras station
>telecast Hindi news which repeats exactly what the English
>national news says? What statistics justify such a policy

Because there may be some people around who are not Tamil but stay in madras.They may not follow English or Tamil.If you can't spare few minutes for hindi news
...........

>(other than the unduly special status that Hindi is
>accorded)?

>	The talk of official languages policy reminds me
>of using your own trick of the statistics of ratios.
>Singapore has four official languages: Tamil, Chinese, Malay,
>and English. Now how many  ethinic groups are there in Singapore
>and did you calculate what percentage of the total number of
>languages spoken by them all are designated as official languages?
>(it is nearly 100%).

>Now consider India: 
>>
>	The federal govenment is designating a language
>that is not even spoken by a majority as the sole official
>language of the Indian Union. (even if more than 50% spoke
>it is still not acceptable whether it should be designated
>as the *sole* official language).
>	
>	

>>
>>< Radio channels for Tamils which they did not have to fight for, in stark
>>  ^^^^^
>>
>>As you must have noticed during your stay
>>in TN, the various "Vaanoli nilayams"
>>broadcast mostly in Tamil.

>	And you must have noticed during your stay
>in TN, the various acts of stupidity by the federal
>government including the controversial step on the
>part of AIR to force Tamil broadcasters to use the 
>Hindi word 'Akashwani' in lieu of the standard and

Akashwani is a Sanskrit word. It was first used by Rabindranath Tagore.
>neutral English phrase "All India Radio" which has 
>been used for decades since the inception of AIR.

>	Again, the point here is not numbers but
>something.
>>
>>
>>Narayan Sriranga Raja.


>chandra.
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