![]() Shah is not the kind of person who blurts out a plan or promises without forethought, more so when it is certain to set off an emotional upsurge across the country. For another, coming as it does from Shah, his latest pronouncement on language and learning must be viewed as a policy initiative that will be carried to its logical conclusion. For one thing, it shows, if any showing was warranted, who is what in the power balance in New Delhi. That it is the Union Home Minister who signals and explains what he calls ‘brain gain’, and not the Education Minister, is not fortuitous. ![]() But a beginning has to begin somewhere, sometime. It is a tough, and predictably prolonged, task to transfer a whole lot of medical information overload from English to Hindi. Union Home Minister Amit Shah will not be unaware that brain drain may not be instantly dammed, and brain gain scored equally effectively, by printing medical textbooks in Hindi. ![]() Brain gain is a great ideal, vastly greater than the onomatopoeia it represents, if, of course, it can be achieved.
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