DesiPundit

Drawing from her experience working with Akshara, Gowriv writes about language barriers. [Hat tip: Blr Bytes]

One is the contrast between the language of research and the language of politics. By now, I’ve seen several government meetings in which language is a means of filling the air rather than a way of creating understanding or clarifying ideas. Documents are political safeguards rather than a way of transferring knowledge. Often teachers we interview tell us programmes are “good” with such uniform insistence that I begin to wonder if “good” really means “I am too busy to talk to you.