English is a must to survive

[Burp]

proficiency in English language is a must to survive in this tech world - what do you people say?

[peeping tom]

but burp, unfortunately hyderabad is more fond of anti-English languages. same old 17th century rural customs, same old biriyani, same old narrow lanes... when will these people become modern? Not only I, EVEN god doesn\'t know

[Shahed]

I dont think english is a must to survive, many advanced and devoloped countries are the examples where they dont use ENGLISH... The very unfortunate thing is some indians are so crazy to adopt the western culture and language and want to skip or neglect their own traditions and language. They dont want their language spread in the world , they want English to be here in their home..Wats their future only God knows...Huh...

[Dr. Doolittle]

I believe most people will agree that we are moving towards a global world where effective communication will be prime to moving forward. Whether it is English or French, is a determinate factor based on who\'s doing better globally in terms business and economics. The fact that there are three countries that speak English in the G-8 group of countries, and that the world\'s largest superpower speaks English are clearly the reasons for English to be more universal than it ever was. If for instance, Japan or France ended up dominating the global economics, people would have taken upto learning French or Japanese. Schools would have perhaps taught the language to students hoping they\'d leverage their skills in the future. Let me give you an example - take Australia, a country with traditionally European values, but geographically, well isolated from them. For them to survive in the Asian environs, they needed to blend in. There are more Australians that speak Japanese now than ever - it is also interesting since, they would have traditionally taken up a European language to learn. Humans need to adapt to their surroundings to survive. Change is inevitable. It is, and always will be extremely difficult to work against the winds of change. As Indians we have a definite advantage having been exposed to the British Empire and having English taught in schools. It is important that we leverage this advantage and move forward, rather than complaining of western languages influencing cultural traditions and diluting values. The English were a part of our cultural history - whether good or bad. It\'s time to move on and build on what we have.

[EroXenoS]

How many people do you think would visit fullhyd.com on the net if it were in Hindi, Urdu or Telugu?
Well, ok, maybe we <i>can</i> survive without English....no problem with that, but we would sure be missing out on a lot of things....
I hate it when people equate English with \"Western culture\"....the India of today wouldn\'t have been a nation if English wouldn\'t have been around, believe me. And stop screeching about our \"Indian\" culture getting polluted...it\'s been around for more than 3000 years and lots of languages and cultures have come and gone....even English is getting to be a part of our Indianness, I reckon.