Ever wondered why the first alphabets that are being taught and deeply internalized into our KG and pre-KG children are those of a foreign language... English as in ABCD.

Why are the first letters that we teach and emboss in our children NOT the letters of our mother tongues of our respective Bhaarateeya states as in Aa, Aaa E, Ee, Oo, Ooooo.

Why are we making brown Englishmen out of  our children and stealing their true identities away from them before they can even think for themselves.  Why are we committing this unconscionable crime of genocide of identity and culture on our future generations??

Why can't we wait for English inculcation of our children to begin at a later age, after those very important first impression years of the Kindergarten. When countries like China, Japan, and others like Germany, Russia, and Iran make sure that the first alphabets for their children are their native tongues and introduce English at around mid-school or high school or college or even never at all; why can't we at least wait for English inculcation till the First standard of our wards.  Why can't we at least keep the KG and nursery years completely in our native language. 

Why can't we say NO TO ENGLISH as the first language of our Bhaarateeya children.. WHY??? Why can't we say NO TO ENGLISH in the KG years and insist that our children are exclusively taught in the native state languages during those very important identity formation years. WHY??

Why are we committing cultural and identity genocide of our children with our own Anglicized education system and committing a monumental crime by our children, a crime which they may NEVER forgive us in the future.

Ps think hard and Ps insist for complete native language during KG years for your children. Let their first alphabets be that  of their mother tongue.  We have already been robbed by our English medium schooling system because of some of our well intentioned albeit naive English centric elders.  Why should the same tragedy be repeated for our  children.. PS THINK HARD and if U find it logical, ps forward this email that will mean the very life and death of our culture and language.

Shiva IYER aka Sivaram Hariharan

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