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What’s more,it is unclear who the SP thought would be won over by this paranoia about English (Mulayam Singh Yadav’s own children,incidentally,have studied in English-speaking schools) — it is blindingly obvious that in India today,English is not merely a class marker; it is,more importantly,the language of global and equally national competitiveness. Dalit movements have long championed what was once reviled as Lord Macaulay’s imposition,as an uncomplicated language of advancement. Last year when Mayawati reversed the decade-long freeze on English,introducing it in primary schools,Uttar Pradesh education officials pointed out that four-fifths of electronic information is stored in English,and rejecting the language amounts to setting our faces against the networked world. Even though there are now more multilingual platforms (and machine translations) than before,the Web largely speaks English. Countries like China,which earlier resisted English,have now pragmatically shifted to conquering it for maximum advantage. It dominates international business,politics and culture more than any other language in human history. And as English has taken over the world,the world has also taken over and repurposed English — no tongue is as flexible,as it accommodates the idioms and accents of every locale it lives in. This is,perhaps,precisely the kind of agility and resourcefulness that the SP’s antiquated worldview cannot comprehend,or take on.