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Languages: Fittest only would survive

 Fittest only would survive is true for the languages too. 

Nothing should be compulsory except the local language and English in Indian context of present times. 

Let other languages slug it out in open for wider acceptance on their strengths. Only those which have street smartness, proven legacy of popularity, ease of learning, inclination for localisation and adaptability, vast vocabulary that a speaker never fumbles for a word would emerge victorious. 

This is how powerful languages stayed concurrent for centuries. Kannada, Punjabi, Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Malayalam, Telugu, Urdu/Hindustani, Bangali or Tamil could be few examples of such power languages. 

Those which could not become street languages of any geographical part in any era or which require state clutches to survive either left the battle field long ago or exist sparingly only for rituals and historical relevance or for love of pedantic exhibitionism.

Urdu

What native north Indians speak  formally on streets is Urdu or Hindustani as Urdu was known once. Hindi, a renamed version of khadi  boli ( contrasting with more natural and older Awadhi, Bhojpuri etc) of 19th century primarily remained a spoken or rather a written language of official state communication only. Fifteen Crore Pakistanis speak Urdu either as first or second language. Most of the north India too speaks mix of Urdu and modern sanskritized Hindi in bazaars and streets though they may use  Devanagari script for writing. The syntactic usage from Urdu or Hindustani defines foundation of Hindi or Khadi Boli.  Urdu with whatever name it was known earlier had been official language of intercommunication for three centuries or more for large part of India. It had been a universal court and revenue language with rich vocabulary even during British times. Land records had been all in Urdu during English period too.  It acquired and built its large vocabulary from various Indian languages and also from Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian. Charlatans of communal bigotry have associated it with one religion only and created negative enigma around its script. Urdu script is not that difficult and can be mastered with much simpler learning curve. Its popularity and sustenance for centuries is proof of its ease of use. True worth and depth of any language can be measured from popularity of its poetry.  No one needs a proof for guessing popularity of Urdu gazals, sher and nazms. Urdu is without considering its usage of script is widest spoken language and has a legacy we should be equally proud as much as we love Tamil, Panjabi, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Bhojpuri or Bangali. 

Making integrated chips in India

Making IC chips of current  capabilities now requires achieving extremities of design and manufecturing technologies. Starting from scratch here is impossible when one is in competition with giants like TSMC or even Samsung or Intel and needs infusion of scores of billion dollars and lead of decades. Only very few companies claim  designing an IC of scale  of current sizes and there are foundries (fabs) like TSMC who control 50 percent of manufacturing.  World is global village we need to collaborate and lure bigs into making fabs here rather trying to boast to go for impossible targets. Not immediately at least. We made real great step with Semiconductor Complex Limited in 1984 itself making chips up to 800 nm a good comparable achievement of those times. That was completely gutted in fire in 1989 and not revived successfully when we had more pressing national priorities like Ram Mandir and Mandal. Now we are ages behind. We would have been much higher in catching up. Now catching up does not need just rhetorics it needs building massive ecosystem starting from curriculum changes to incubating talent in universities and providing financial incentives to talented youth to stay back. And also this needing many billions of dollars investments without still achieving development and design capabilities of current scale, weighing it with our national priorities is logical step, every nation does that. What do we need first must be first in our priorities. No nation aims to source everything in house until other priorities are met. Diplomatic advocacy and  friendly business relations is also important component of self reliance. World is one large village and all need to work together unless one wants to lock oneself in. ‬

Jaloos, Pheries, Jhaankiya, Jalsey

Religious Jaloos, Pheries, Jhaankiya, Jalsey, all such apparently intimidating street practices to show off class, clan, cult or faith camaraderie might have been of value in medieval times when these used to corroborate accompanying militery prowess of the royal who used to exploit faith for expansion and domination.However such acts should have no place in 21st century of our times when moral rather than the physical conduct of the practitioners should define the public acceptability of a faith or a thought. Street demonstrations organised in name of freedom of practicing faith, are becoming increasingly pronounced and frequent and all faiths are indulging in this oneupmanship or rather supremacism. A modern society should shun all such provocative street shows.