The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh News : Enrich vernaculars

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Monday, Oct 22, 2007
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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Enrich vernaculars

Education, urbanisation and industrialisation are transforming India before our eyes. The vernaculars have to play a central role. It would also play a pivotal role as one of the foremost scientific/technical knowledge store house. But our vernaculars have no literary/intellectual activity worth the name. We have to enrich our vernaculars with translations of all the oceans of knowledge of East and West into simple, spoken language.

The great literary and philosophic works of the 17th, 18th and 19th century, Europe of the post-Renaissance period, all such books require to be translated into simple spoken style . We require a whole generation of translators of highest intellectual calibre.

S.B.V.R. Shastry,

Warangal

Travails galore

The woes of the poor and middle-class passengers, who travel in express trains general bogies are countless. It is really sad that many a time the Government and Railway authorities were requested to allot more general compartments, but they give a deaf ear to solve the problems of the ‘aam aadmi’.

As these are also at the end of the train, the commuters find it very difficult to identify and reach the spot. . If at least two more bogies are added to every train, a great deal of inconvenience can be avoided.

The railway authorities are requested to clear the agonies of the ‘poor’ passengers.

G. Jagannadh,

Anantapur

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