CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -It has been brought out simultaneously in 13 languages – Assamese, Tamil, Bengali, Odiya, Kannada, Malyalam, Punjabi, Marathi, Telugu, Gujarati, Urdu, Hindi and English – in consultation with the state councils of educational research and training.

Detailed explanation-2: -1) Gandhi learned 11 languages throughout his life, including his native Gujarati. 2) He used his knowledge of other languages to connect with others on a deeper level, helping them fight for human and civil rights. 3) He believed that all children should learn more than one language.

Detailed explanation-3: -Nai Talim is education of humans into thinking and productively working and not training of animals into writing and reading leading a dependent life. Nai Talim is not alienated assumption based learning of a given reality but it is involved experiential learning of evolving reality.

Detailed explanation-4: -During childhood he had learned a bit of Sanskrit in the school. Afterwards he learned it better in jail. While during his study in England, he acquired essential knowledge of Europe’s ancient language - Latin and then he also gained working knowledge of French. He had mastered his mother-tongue Gujarati.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hindi, which in any case was known to north Indians and could, in Gandhi’s view, be learnt by south Indians, would not suffer from the limitations of English and hence was suitable to be the national language.