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New Delhi, Delivering a fiery address at the Ramnath Goenka Lecture at \u2018Excellence in Journalism Awards\u2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi issued a nationwide call to arms: liberate India from the \u201cslave mentality\u201d planted by British colonialist Thomas Babington Macaulay nearly two centuries ago.
In a sweeping critique that linked Congress\u2019s alleged patronage of Maoists and Urban Naxals to the destruction of India\u2019s ancient education system, PM Modi declared that the next ten years will mark the final burial of Macaulay\u2019s ghost.
\u201cAlmost every major state was once in the grip of Maoist terrorists. Who nurtured them? Congress gave birth to Maoists and Urban Naxals who openly rejected Bharat\u2019s Constitution,\u201d PM Modi thundered, adding that \u201cthe Maoists of the Muslim League have now become Congress municipal councillors.\u201d
The remark, delivered hours after the NDA\u2019s landslide victory in Bihar, drew sharp gasps and applause in equal measure.
Turning to the towering legacy of legend Ramnath Goenka, the Prime Minister hailed the \u2018Indian Express\u2019 newspaper founder as a warrior who defied British censorship as early as 1835\u2014two decades before the 1857 revolt.
\u201cRamnath ji wrote in his editorial; I would rather shut down my newspaper than bow to British ideals. That fearless spirit is needed again today,\u201d PM Modi said.
At the heart of his speech was a searing indictment of Macaulay\u2019s 1835 Minute on Education.
\u201cMacaulay wanted to create a class of people Indian in blood and colour, but British in taste, opinions, morals and intellect. He uprooted our glorious gurukul system\u2014a beautiful tree that blended knowledge with skills, culture with pride\u2014and replaced it with a factory that produced clerks ashamed of their own heritage,\u201d PM Modi said.
PM Modi lamented that even after Independence, successive governments continued chasing foreign models.
\u201cWe kept looking westward for education, innovation, even language. We were taught to treat anything \u2018imported\u2019 as superior and anything swadeshi as second-class.\u201d
He accused detractors of the National Education Policy of waging the same old battle.
\u201cWe are not against English; we are against the deliberate neglect of Indian languages. In which country are its own mother tongues treated like orphans?\u201d
The Prime Minister announced a decisive national mission: \u201cBy 2035\u2014exactly 200 years after Macaulay\u2019s crime\u2014India will be completely free from the mentality of slavery. In the next ten years, we will rebuild pride in our heritage, our languages, and our knowledge systems. This is my appeal to every citizen through the platform of the Indian Express.\u201d
As the audience rose in ovation, PM Modi tied Goenka\u2019s fearless journalism to India\u2019s ongoing transformation.
\u201cRamnath ji fought colonial slavery with his pen. Today, we fight mental slavery with education, innovation and unbreakable self-confidence. The Indian Express has witnessed every chapter of this journey\u2014and the most glorious chapters are yet to be written.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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