Topic started by Nambi (@ 62.30.0.2) on Wed Feb 20 18:21:30 .
All times in EST +10:30 for IST.

It was written in an Indian embassy in UK.
It was very amazing to see this. These statements
make the people think that before British,
Indians never spoke and British people taught
Indians a great language called English.
Dont you think it as a joke. I was laughing
in that Embassy unknowingly, and everybody
was staring at me.

One more thing,
'English is the most illogical language spoken
in the contemporary world'. For example
'Leicester' is spoken as 'Lester'. We can
say millions of such examples. I am not saying this. An Englishman, my friend told this.

Responses:

• From: Observer (@ 131.107.3.68) on: Wed Feb 20 21:00:35
  
  "The English language is Britain's greatest gift to India"
  
  If the british government thinks that is the best gift they gave to India, so be it. What's the big deal? If you don't like English, consider that as equivalent of someone who gave "Rs. 5" gift at your marriage but ate food worth Rs. 10 :-)
  
  Like it or not, British were the largest colonial power to occupy Indian territory, and English language became popular because of that. But to think of the language itself as a gift, hmmm.. more like leftovers (no offense there). But to some extent, this helped as a link language between states that did not share a common language.
  
  But, I don't understand why you got the feeling that they think "Indians never spoke and British people taught Indians a great language called English" unless such intention was stated explicitly in the material you read.
  
  
• From: JAS (@ 203.115.210.53) on: Fri Feb 22 02:14:13
  
  "The English language is Britain's greatest gift to India"
  This means that they did not give India anything better than their language. What is wrong in acknowledging this? Why should we think that they have given us "greater gifts", if they themselves do not think so?
  
  
• From: Nambi (@ cache-hay-hsi.cableinet.co.uk) on: Fri Feb 22 18:51:45
  
  Observer,
  
  'If you don't like English, consider that as equivalent of someone who gave "Rs. 5" gift at your marriage but ate food worth Rs. 10'
  
  I cannot say that I dont like English very loudly,
  since I am living in UK. It is not 5:10 as you told. What our country lost to them is invaluable. You can see the samples in every
  UK museums.
  
  A joke to one person may be something serious
  to others. For me, the gift they gave was a
  sh*t. It is a symbol of slavery. But unfortunately
  we are poor people. It is the cheapest food available.
  
  
• From: pabum (@ cable-78-mo-180.sullivan.fidnet.com) on: Tue Apr 23 05:38:42
  
  The greatest gift the british gave India was that they had united us. even though they messed up majorly with the partition of pakistan, I think they pulledthe north and the south together... and people started thinking as one.
  
  
  
• From: Nambi (@ cache-bas-hsi.cableinet.co.uk) on: Wed Apr 24 19:33:01
  
  Pabum,
  
  US wants to rule India, Pakistan, Bangladesh,
  Srilanka and China for another 400 years and
  on 2447 it will give a new country together.
  Will your great grand sons accept it as a gift?
  
  
• From: Nazia (@ cpe000625dc0828-cm014120003889.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com) on: Mon Oct 13 19:56:11
  
  The only gift the British gave India was modern industry which increased India's trade with other parts of the world, but this also caused downfall. The British did not do anything significant which positively impacted India. Just downfall.
  
  
• From: Idiappam (@ cache139.156ce.maxonline.com.sg) on: Mon Oct 13 20:10:32 EDT 2003
  
  The only gift that the British gave India was - INDIA. Without that gift 'India' would have been just fragmented pieces and small parcels of land ruled by mini Rajas, ethinically and liguistically segregated and seperated - and frequently locking horns with each other.
  
  Anyway, it is not much different now!
  
  
• From: purvmegh (@ 203.199.160.129) on: Tue Oct 14 05:16:05 EDT 2003
  
  british were nothing but pirates.they looted gold,silk and india's total wealth.I still wonder why the mountbaten gang was given a send off by nehru ? they should have arrested all the british in india and put them in jail till we recovered all dues from england.
  I have read somewhere that the british owe Rs 3.5 crore to every indian,pakistani and bangladesh citizen.this was counted by Dadabhai nauroji in 1910.
  The wealth of europe and america is not their own.it has come from the blood of asians,africans and red indians.
  
  
• From: U (@ mobileinternet.plus.com) on: Tue Oct 14 11:34:53 EDT 2003
  
  When you come to Britian, they take all they can from you(they take you to the cleaners) and 'make us feel like beggars when in fact it is all blood'(quote of an Kenyan student).
  
  Do you think it has changed form history to present day with these suckers?
  
  
• From: U (@ mobileinternet.plus.com) on: Tue Oct 14 11:36:06 EDT 2003
  
  The English language is the most 'FRAUDULENT' language on earth.
  
  
• From: U (@ mobileinternet.plus.com) on: Tue Oct 14 11:38:10 EDT 2003
  
  Error: 'our blood'(quote of a Kenyan student).
  
  
• From: Aryaprastum (@ accel18.nyc.untd.com) on: Sun Nov 9 17:37:40
  
  The English gave India many gifts:
  
  Partition, making of the world's first Islamic State Pakistan. Famine through out their rule in India. And the greatest robbing of nations wealth in history. 4 trillion in gold alone was stolen from India between 1800-1947. India owes the British nothing. If it was not for these barbarians India would be a united world power today.
  
  
• From: karthi (@ wc09.ym.rnc.net.cable.rogers.com) on: Sun Nov 9 23:26:54 EST 2003
  
  British are still in control over its colonies including India.
  
  Indian politicians always accept the British supremacy.
  
  
• From: Idiappam (@ cm51.gamma241.maxonline.com.sg) on: Mon Nov 10 02:39:53 EST 2003
  
  //If it was not for these barbarians India would be a united world power today.//
  
  There was no India before the british. It was just a mass of land fragmented by smaill kingdoms. What 'unitiy' of India are you talking about????
  
  
• From: karthi (@ wc09.ym.rnc.net.cable.rogers.com) on: Mon Nov 10 05:53:45 EST 2003
  
  Yes...
  No India before British. Idiyappam is right with Indian history.
  
  I think some idiots from the north confused with HINDU with India.
  
  Hundreds of HINDU rulers and Muslim rulers were in power before British and owned pieces of lands in the sub-continent.
  
  
• From: ouch (@ 62.105.98.245) on: Mon Nov 17 08:05:36 EST 2003
  
  Every indian alive globally is owed 2.1 million rupees each........
  
  everything i see in the UK is like a Maya, and i don't see a bus or a house i see the faces of indian children..............
  
  anyway lets stop being bitter about the past and move on with the times........
  
  REVENGE is bitter-SWEET.......
  
  why have any bitterness when you can just have the sweetness........
  
  BESIDES everyone forgets that Arya-Vartha was invaded by Muslims who bought our SANSKRIT shaastra texts to the West along with the numerals which is why we are in the state we are in now.............
  
  

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