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The Centre is suppressing people’s languages successful its bid to beforehand Sanskrit, regretted student Hampa Nagarajaiah, besides known arsenic Hampana, portion speaking during the inauguration of the two-day Samajamukhi Literary Conference successful Bengaluru.
“The Union authorities is pushing for One Language, One Nation, One Election portion systematically stifling people’s languages. A large information of the connection backing is being utilized to beforehand Sanskrit alone,” Prof. Nagarajaiah said.
Funding issues
He pointed retired that implicit the past 11 years, the authorities has spent ₹2,532.59 crore connected Sanskrit, portion Dravidian languages person received a fraction of that enactment — ₹113.4 crore for Tamil, ₹12.65 crore for Telugu, ₹12.28 crore for Kannada, and ₹4.52 crore for Malayalam.
He called this skewed and unfair, according to a release.
“Sanskrit and Hindi are not our enemies,” Prof. Nagarajaiah clarified. “They are some rich, classical languages. But they indispensable not beryllium imposed upon others. We indispensable collectively and powerfully reason this biased attack of the Centre.”
He further noted that portion determination are 14 Sanskrit universities successful the country, determination are nary for Prakrit oregon different past Indian languages of antiquity.
Prof. Baragur Ramachandrappa, main guest, expressed interest implicit the erosion of motivation work successful nationalist discourse. He said that we are surviving successful ‘an property of distorted interpretations’ and ‘madness has replaced dialogue, irrationality has replaced reason, communalism has replaced humanity, and falsehood has replaced truth’.
In intelligence community
Cautioning against divisive tendencies wrong the intelligence community, Prof. Ramachandrappa added, “The powerfulness of dependable should not beryllium destroyed by the authorities of division.”
Cultural thinker H.S. Shivaprakash, impermanent of honour, emphasised that India has ever been a onshore of multilingual and multicultural traditions — some successful poesy and religion. “Attempts are being made to interruption this pluralistic practice and enforce a azygous culture,” helium warned.
He noted that linguistic diverseness exists not lone successful the South but crossed North India too, yet astir determination languages bash not person owed recognition. “This is the nonstop effect of linguistic domination,” helium said.
Jayaram Rayapur, Commissioner of Income Tax, Andhra Pradesh, and the laminitis of Samajamukhi magazine, successful his introductory remarks said the thought down Samajamukhi was to make an autarkic level for Kannada’s intelligence space.
