Speaker: Sankrant Sanu Topic: "The English Medium Myth: Dismantling Barriers to India's Growth"

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Speaker: Sankrant Sanu Topic: "The English Medium Myth: Dismantling Barriers to India's Growth" Date/Venue:  June 3rd, 2018 (Sun) 1:30 PM - 3 PM @ at Sanatan Dharma Mandir, 15311, Pioneer Blvd., Norwalk, CA 90650 Please make note of the venue. There is an assumption in India today that the spread of English-medium education is necessary for India's growth. Technologist and entrepreneur Sankrant Sanu questions this with a detailed study based on his visits to over 35 countries to study language policy. He finds that, even though  English is being increasingly used as a link languages, the most prosperous countries are using their own languages as the medium for higher education, science, medicine, engineering and law. Of the top 20 richest countries all of them uses the common languages of the people, of which only 4 use English-medium. Of the 20 poorest countries however, more use English-medium, and exclude the vast majority of their people from development. The advantages of science and development will happen the fastest when brought to it in the languages of the common people. Based on this, Sankrant has created a comprehensive policy proposal for Indian languages that is based on the EU model. This proposal allows every child in India to be educated to the highest level in their own language and restores the primacy of the economic linkages of Indian languages which is necessary for India to develop both economically and culturally. To this effect, Sankrant has also started Garuda, a publications company, to bring Scientific books in Indian languages. About Sankrant Sanu Sankrant Sanu is an author, technologist and entrepreneur. He was a senior development manager at Microsoft where he co-founded Microsoft Sharepoint. He has been a serial entrepreneur since then, involved in startups in Seattle, Bay Area, Ottawa and Gurgaon. Some of his essays were published by Rupa in the book “Invading the Sacred.”  He has written for Rediff, Swarajya, Entrepreneur Magazine, the Hindustan Times, Dainik Jagran, Amar Ujala and Manushi among others. Sankrant is a Computer Science graduate of IIT Kanpur. Sankrant did graduate studies in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin. He teaches the Art of Living course. He holds six technology patents and blogs at sankrant.org Mission Statement of Bharatiya Vichar Manch: To promote dialogue by which Dharmic philosophy, culture, and traditions can positively influence global thought and action. Some of the past lectures are available at: www.youtube.com/bharatiyavicharmanch http://www.facebook.com/bhartiyavicharmanch.la If you want your email address to be added to the mailing list, please send an email to bvmanchla@gmail.com   Please forward the lecture invitation to your contacts who might be interested in attending. Sign up for our list! Going forward flyers will be posted at this web address, please save this address in your favorites section of your web browser. We will try to post the flyer for the following month lecture by 25th of each month.  This way, if you do not get an email for the lecture for any reason, the flyer can be viewed at this address. https://bvmanchflyers.blogspot.com/ Feel free to send an email to bvmanchla@gmail.com if you have any comments/suggestions about the lectures, would like to volunteer few hours a month to organize the lectures or want to recommend a speaker who can be invited to give a lecture.  All lectures are free of cost, including free parking.  Lectures are normally 40-50 minutes long followed by 25-35 minutes of Q & A session.