Poster of the talk - drive.google.c...
Opportunity to interact with
Dr. Sankrant Sanu, IITK/B.Tech/CSE/1972. The details of the session are as
follows :-
Title of Talk :- The English Medium Myth
Date :- 3rd November, 2015
Time :- 6:30pm onwards
Venue :- Outreach Auditorium
Abstract:
There is an assumption in India today that the spread of English-medium
education is necessary for India's growth. Technologist and entrepreneur
Sankrant Sanu questions this with a detailed study based on his visits to
over 25 countries to study language policy. He finds that, even though
English is being increasingly used as a link languages, the most
prosperous countries are using their own languages as the medium for
higher education, science, medicine, engineering and law. Of the top 20
richest countries all of them uses the common languages of the people, of
which only 4 are English-medium. Of the 20 poorest countries
however, more use English-medium, and exclude the vast majority of their
people from development.
The advantages of science and development will happen the fastest when
brought to it in the languages of the common people. Based on this
Dr. Sankrant has created a comprehensive policy proposal for Indian
languages that is based on the EU model. This proposal allows every child
in India to be educated to the highest level in their own language and
restores the primacy of the economic linkages of Indian languages which is
necessary to Indian to develop both economically and
culturally.
About Dr. Sankrant
Dr. Sankrant Sanu is an author, technologist and entrepreneur. He was a
senior development manager at Microsoft where he co-founded Microsoft
Sharepoint. He has been a serial entrepreneur since then, involved in
startups in Seattle, Bay Area, Ottawa and Gurgaon. Some of his essays were
published by Rupa in the book “Invading the Sacred.” He has written for
Rediff, Entrepreneur Magazine, the Hindustan Times, Amar Ujala, Manushi
and SeekingAlpha among others.
Sankrant is a Computer Science graduate of IIT Kanpur where he was a
student of Dr. Rajiv Sangal,currently Director IIT BHU, a pioneer
in machine translation using a Sanskrit-based semantic model. Sankrant did
graduate studies in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin.
He teaches the Art of Living course. He holds six technology patents and
blogs at sankrant.org sankrant.org/.
Book Title: The English Medium Myth: Dismantling Barriers to India's Growth.
Book Released on Aug 9, 2014 at the Constitution Club by Shri Ram
Jethmalani, Dr. Ved Pratap Vaidik
Hindi Version: Angrezi Madhyam ka Bhramjal
Book Released on Feb 14, 2015 by Hon'ble Education minister of Madhay Pradesh
Books presented to the Hon'bl PM Shri Narendra Modi on Jul 17, 2015, at 7
RCR, New Delhi.
Website: bhashaneeti.org