New Delhi: This is the 21st century. The world is seeing an AI revolution like never before, global boundaries are blurring, the world is becoming one big cultural melting pot, but some of us seem to be going around in circles asking the same redundant questions and showcasing our own imbecile nature by repeating a staid rhetoric. We are referring to the happenings in the Lok Sabha yesterday, February 11, when the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MP, Dayanidhi Maran, opposed the simultaneous interpretation of Lok Sabha proceedings in Sanskrit. He went on to call the ancestral language “a waste of taxpayers’ money” and even linked it to the RSS ideology. When the Speaker intervened to correct Maran’s ignorant statement, the latter resorted to raising slogans about the issue.

It was the ‘Zero Hour’ and all sorts of questions are welcome, after all we pride ourselves in being a democratic country following all principles laid down by the Constitution but it is also true that having the same regressive doubts — especially those which have the intent of establishing supremacy — is only halting our progress as a nation. So, when Maran quipped that Sanskrit is “non communicable”, is a “waste of resource”, and also questioned whether it was a “primary” language in a diverse country like India; we circled back to from where it all began.

The fact that such a sedated narrative was propelled by a MP belonging to the DMK political party........

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