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Devanuru Mahadeva has slammed the Supreme Court's directive on the
language policy, which leaves the choice of medium of instruction to
parents. </p>
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<p style="text-align:justify">In response to a query as to why the
Government is firmly in favour of making Kannada compulsory when only
parents know the best for their children, Devanuru said, "When I used to
campaign against bonded labour in our villages, I would go to each
household requesting poor parents not to send their children to work.
They would yell at me and say they knew what was in the best interest of
their children, and who was I to decide?" <br><br>Noting that other
countries are doing their best to promote local languages, Devanuru said
India is yet to come out of its 'psychological slavery' to colonial
rulers. "Japanese is the language of instruction in almost all Japanese
schools. In China, the mother tongues are Mandarin, Mongolian, Tibetan
and Korean, and the country is spending heavily to teach English and
Spanish only as languages so it can expand its empire. In Malaysia, the
colonial language is being replaced by the mother tongue," he observed.<br><br>Devanuru
had refused to chair the 81st All India Sahitya Sammelana on the ground
that the Government has not been doing enough to make the teaching of
Kannada mandatory in primary schools. Speaking about the government's
decision to amend the RTE rules, he said, "I welcome the decision but
still need to study it to assess its effectiveness." </p>
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