Geography of India India, officially the Republic of India is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west, China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh to the east
English a big speaking language and how it compared to Indian movies In this essay, I am going to describe how English became such a big spoken language and how the English became a worldwide language. This essay will also include how the Bollywood movies have developed through the industry of Hollywood, and why India has the English as one of the International languages. English is the international language. Now 1,8 billion people in the world speak English. The most speaking language is Chinese
Hegemony of the English Language in India When Rita Kothari mentioned the certain culture gap in her experience with the things she saw in her day to day life and the things mentioned in her academia, I remembered the raging debate I had when I was little – should I call my mom ‘Amma’ or ‘Mummy’? should I enjoy an ‘aam’ or a ‘mango’? I still vividly remember the day, clutching my dad’s hand, sitting in front of my future school principal reciting ‘Twinkle twinkle little star’ even though I had heard
and Restructuring English Education in India. Abstract We have, in this paper, tried to discuss how colonization, thanks to Macaulay’s Minute has impacted the educational system in India over the past few centuries and the need to restructure the English education in India. It has been observed that introduction of Indian writings in English in addition to the original English writings to a large extent can help us learn English well. Key Words: Decolonization, English language, Indian education
on education by the British government in India to be about 90,000 pound sterling, which he felt was
Being an Indian, we have heard many times and read from many books of how the Britishers left India in ruins – politically as well as in wealth – when they ended the British Raj and left. However, over the many years that the English did control India, not only did India become westernized, but the British too, became Indianized along the way and adopted many cultures, mannerisms, cuisine and etiquettes that were of Indian heritage and origin. Many of these mannerisms were adopted before
English has obtained a rank of an associate language, however in reality it is the most important language of India. It is the most ordinarily spoken language in India and presumably the most read and written language in India after Hindi. English in India is utilized not for speaking with the outside world; but rather additionally for between state and intrastate correspondence. On account of the considerable ethnic and phonetic differences found inside our country, English goes about as an essential
Language Man has been reported as not only homo-sapiens, homo- ergaster, homo-habilis but homo-loquens too. He lives in a world of language. Either he is at home or at school, at office or at play ground he talks to different people and he is talked to as well. So the knowing of a language becomes a significant issue for every child of human species. This knowing primarily includes the capacity of producing of some specific sounds which signify some particular meaning for the speaker as well as the
The English language became an incisive and strong instrument in the hands of Mahatma Gandhi for freedom. He edited and wrote for papers like ‘Young India’ and ‘Harijan’. He also had penned his autobiography, My Experiments with truth, which is known for its literary flair. Jawaharlal Nehru stands out as another prominent leader, who had excellence in writing prose, all of them taking the budding Indian English literature of British India, to heights of excellence and merits. Nehru is however particularly
This research mirrors the formative journey of Indian English literature in the form of novel “The rise of the novel in India was not purely a literary phenomenon.It was a social phenomenon as much, rather the fulfillment of a social need’’.1 Writes K.S.Ramamurti in his book Rise of the Indian Novel In English . Of Course, fiction can be called a new branch, a new attempt in comparison with poetry, prose and other treatises but today we can claim that it is the most popular genre of Indo-Anglian