Knowledge itself is a wide term to associate with. It has wide interception in various aspects of life. It can be of music, sports, dance or even martial arts. Knowledge and education system in India are totally out synced. we often see people with PhD. D. degrees throwing garbage in open places and illiterates of Indian education system picking them up while the education system can call the PhD. D. holder an educated man in knowledge value system, he has zero skills. Considering Indian education system, the manufactured products of the system are robots with no real social value system.
My Professor and head of department of Mass Communication and journalism department Santosh Kiro told us about the power of language in knowledge system. Today native languages are dying and so are dying value systems in our society. He himself is known of 5 languages Hindi, English, Nagpuri, Mundari and Kurukh. He is an eminent rural journalist in the infield of rural journalism. With his eyes of expertise and experience we can see how death of knowledge is closely related to death of knowledge. Today Indians are world’s largest data consuming population mainly consuming data in English language, a language of those who ruled us for centuries.
Howsoever, efficient and fluent English we may speak, our identity will always be Indians not British. With death of Sanskrit, we could see the separation of wide source of rich literature and science written in Sanskrit being unread because of English being our prime focus.
I live in Samlong ,an outskirts of Ranchi closely associated with the main city ,where I live I have to pass through a colony of poor living workers who are auto drivers and milkman’s coming from Bihar whose generation of adapted to living in a filth and dirty environment given to them but whenever I cross them I walk slowly and take out most of time because I can hear them talking in Bhojpuri and gossiping out each other ,men discussing things in the language in which I am born ,for a moment I forget about the way and the condition my fellow statesmen living in a state once they were a part of and just love the fact that even they are trying out to be part of Jharkhandi dialect but they haven’t forgotten their own and I encounter people who have got get an elite status and refuse the language .I once was ashamed of my language ,my people until I went back and spent time with people formed a close association with my language and the read the literature .
It is believed that 90% of the circulation language currently in the world will have become extinct by 2050 as the world language system has reached a crisis and is grammatical destruction due to no preservation.
Language creates national consciousness and we are at a deficit .Today the heist of knowing English is prevailing that knowing the language itself has made it an elite status for person knowing it in our society in the meanwhile having killed our native language .There are migrated population from the Hindi belt within our country who are unaware of the Hindi literature and language and are outcasted from the knowledge source. With every dying native language be it Mundari, Kurukh, Bhojpuri, Magahi dies a civilization and the rich source associated with it, today we elect our MLA’s or MP’s, our representatives on our behalf who will represent us the parliament or assembly unaware of language and large spoken of that language are not represented in the population .
" Story Weaver, an initiative of not-for-profit organization Pratham Books, is using technology and children’s stories to popularize reading in the mother tongue, and to preserve dying languages in India and globally. The platform was launched in 2015 with 800 stories from Pratham Books. Now it has over 8,700 stories from different sources that can be read in 114 languages. Of these, 71 are international and 25 come under endangered and vulnerable tribal languages such as Juanga and Mundari." Story Weaver helps preserve rare dialects.
" Story Weaver, an initiative of not-for-profit organization Pratham Books, is using technology and children’s stories to popularize reading in the mother tongue, and to preserve dying languages in India and globally. The platform was launched in 2015 with 800 stories from Pratham Books. Now it has over 8,700 stories from different sources that can be read in 114 languages. Of these, 71 are international and 25 come under endangered and vulnerable tribal languages such as Juanga and Mundari." Story Weaver helps preserve rare dialects.
According to drafted national education policy 2019. The science of child development and language acquisition suggests that young children become literate in (as a language) and learn best through (as a medium of instruction) their “local language” i.e. the language spoken at home.
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