Tamil or Thamizh

I am by no means a tamil fanatic, but I have lived in three states and visited all the south indian states. One thing I have noticed is that in all the states except Tamilnadu, the local language is a compulsory language in school other than Hindi which is our national language. One may raise an eyebrow and put forward the question as to why this is the case. We have to go back many years and look at the various protests the political parties in Tamilnadu have made to stop hindi being made a compulsory language in schools and they were successful in their attempts. The government gave a choice of language studied at school. The idea was that given a choice people would make their wards take up tamil and all would live happily ever after, but what did happen? Now we are in a state were 75% of the 12^th passouts know only Tamil and English. It is not a problem if he/she stays in tamilnadu throughout his entire life.

IF these people move out of tamilnadu they are stuck with a new problem, neither do they know the local language of the state nor they are hindi literate which atleast the local people will know because their government had no issues with making hindi a compulsory language.

The other thing which is happening is the since many people have started realizing the above fact or because of some other reason, we now also have a large population of people who cannot read tamil (count me in ) which is bad the language which is known to be one of the oldest along with Sanskrit. This blog is not going make any effect on the current education system in Tamil Nadu but at least it point out some facts to the people about Tamil Nadu.