New Delhi, Dec. 11 -- Congress Member of Parliament (MP) Shashi Tharoor has waded into the English-Macaulay debate saying that the language must align with Indian ethos. The acclaimed author said English has empowered India and that it was the colonial hangover we must reject, not the language.

"Thomas Babington Macaulay, in his infamous 1835 Minute on Indian Education, proposed the creation of "a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect". His goal was not cultural upliftment but colonial convenience - a cadre of clerks and collaborators who would serve the British Empire more efficiently than the British themselves," Tharoor wrote in Indian Express on 11 December.

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