Sunday, 24 June 2012

[wanabidii] FW: Ngugi wa Thiongo & the Value of Mother Toungues

Thought this will interest U.
A toutes fins utiles!
Slm

> From: EAcircle-owner@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sat Jun 23, 2012 3:25 am ((PDT))
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> Ngugi wa Thiongo, a Kenyan writer, was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature, for this observation....
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> "Indians, which include Pakistanis, Lankans and Bangladeshis, are the only people on earth who feel ashamed to speak in their mother tongues in front of the Whitemen".
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> Those `patriotic' Indians who have emigrated to the West and the Americas would never encourage their children to speak in their mother tongue out of `embarrassment' !
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> In India everything is written in English even if it is scripted in Hindi !
( The Indian currency note, for example, is printed in English and Hindi, yet even in Hindi it says "Reserve bank of India") !
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> The whole of the Indian parliament speaks in its "Master Voice" and yet it is sixty years plus the British left India. India must be the largest English Speaking Country in the World.
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> Jai Hind !
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A Man Without A Mother Tongue Is A Man without Identity… Never be ashamed of who you are.

> AWARDS - START OF 2012:
> Original writing: Vali Jamal, Kampala, Uganda
> Variety forwards: Pradyuman Joshi, USA, originally from ???
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> Q1. Since tyrants will always be marginally more cruel to win any power struggle, how can the good people win without surpassing the tyrant's cruelty?
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> Q2. Why are War & Famine found mainly in countries with straight-line borders?
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> Products Bar Code beginning with 729 is Isreal origin. Boycott it if you feel sad for those whose Human Rights are transgressed.
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> "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron" (Dwight D Eisenhower)


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