Escalating Desperate Measures by Muslim League’s Education Department in Stifling Sanskrit

While Kerala’s education department laps up with great relish the extravaganza being showered on foreign languages like Arabic and Urdu, welcoming the languages with open arms, it continues its step-motherly attitude towards our own native Sanskrit.
 
Arabic and Sanskrit are two of the optional languages in LP schools. However, while Arabic enjoys quarterly and half yearly examinations in each academic year, school authorities have been instructed not to conduct examinations for Sanskrit. The result is the language has become alien at the school.
 
With the educational department issuing instructions not to conduct examinations, the linguistic skills of children are not being an opportunity to be assessed. Also, there are umpteen schools that have not yet received Sanskrit text books for various classes, even though the academic year is almost nearing an end. There are schools that do not have Sanskrit as optional language and yet continue to receive text books. Some schools have stated that they receive Sanskrit texts only after copies of other subject and language texts have arrived.
 
Same is the case with sending across handbooks in Sanskrit, which serve as aid for teachers. Schools in as many as 8 districts have not received the teacher’s handbook for Sanskrit. Also, while handbooks in all other subjects/ languages have been printed, Sanskrit has had to remain content with Xeroxed versions.
 
Another serious flaw is preparation of syllabus for Sanskrit textbooks, which has to be done with extreme meticulousness, by people who are authorities. Instead the education department has entrusted the task to those who are hardly familiar with the classical language. Sources state that authorities of the language have cleverly been sidelined.
 
All these are being viewed as the Muslim League’s deliberate attempts to stifle ad destroy the language in the state and further their preferred Abrahamic language.
 

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