Hi all,
India is a land of diversity. Diversity as the dictionary meaning says its a range of different things.
We have to believe in this, and if you do not believe in this, no matter what the reality is you will be called as Anti-national , and probably you will be asked to surrender your Aadhar card immediately.
India , as we know has 29 states and 7 Union territories. But from a South Indian perspective , it is like apart from the 4 states TamilNadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra ( actually 5 states as Telangana also needs to be added, but who cares !) rest all can be safely called as North India, and the people as Northies.
While from a North Indian perspective, anybody who speaks a language which they cannot comprehend can be safely called as Madarasis.
Though we are split here, we are all united in one thought that , we believe that those people who speak any language other than our language are complete morons.
This is why we always end up in the language controversies, which will finally end up like this post with no point.
Recently, there is a language controversy, that the central Government is imposing Hindi in all states, through various means. Sometime back, central Government was trying to do the same with Sanskrit and asked all schools to celebrate a Sanskrit day, and they decided to remove German from the school curriculum and replaced it with Sanskrit.
This was all happening in North India, and we were wondering why on earth in the first place we had German in our school, and why it was not there in our school.
The reason why all students like to have a non-local language in their school , can be many and we believe in diversity. For instance, some gangs may like to speak in their language among themselves so that other gangs does not come to know of their plans to win a cricket match, other reason could be that it can be a good break in a day as there will be no staff to teach them and it becomes a free hour.
When schools are finding it tough to get teachers to teach their local language, we introduce a foreign language expecting a ex-pat to come all the way from Berlin to Mundasuppati and teach German.
Going further back, there was a anti-Hindi protest in 60s , which now nobody bothers as it is so-long-ago when Facebook and Twitter were not there, and what kind of protest would it be without a Black DP and #StopHindiImperialism trend tags.
It is not like we hate Hindi or other language, some of us who had studied in CBSE had Hindi as a third language were always happy that they had got an extra free hour that day, and the staff who did the class for third-language was mostly a Maths teacher who had done his/her graduation in a city where some Hindi guy would have traveled in the same mode of transport to the same place. That becomes a good connect to Hindi and to give an additional responsibility of teaching Hindi.
I mean no offence to Hindi/ Sanskrit, but in the same-time I believe that they can and should be taught and not imposed. There is a saying in Tamil, Anjula valayadadu ambadula valayadu , which signifies that if one does not learn at 5, it will not be possible for him to learn at 50. This is what the Government should try to do start from the grassroots level and solve the problem there and not impose straightaway.
Tamils, are not aliens to Hindi, we grew up watching Doordarshan having 22 hours Hindi programs and 2 hour Tamil program, and the two hours as well one will be able to see only if he is in Tamilnadu, if you are out of state for some reason, you will not be able to watch it. This would make me even wonder, how on earth is that signals from Delhi reach TamilNadu while the signals from Chennai, then Madras does not reach Madurai. See the Hindi imperialism started from there.
Coming to the media, see even the advertisements for vehicles be it Maruti 800 or TVS XL Super or Benz , all the vehicles will have their registrations in Maharashtra and they will be driving in Snow and rain.
Come on, we from Tamilnadu have never seen snow except for scenes from the movie Roja, and the topic of rain and water is another debate. And there will be claims of me being an anti national or to be precise anti-tamilian that I did not write a blog during water crisis or Jallikattu protests.
We may belong to a state where we do not have much rainfall and snow but we drive bikes and cars, and all the ad makers and companies are only Hindi Imperialists and they are anti-tamilians.
Now one can know how easy it is to instigate a language controversy and India with so many tongues can never avoid a language controversy. Now from an constitutional perspective, our forefathers knew that this will happen and that is why they wrote the whole stuff in a diplomatic and un-biased manner , and made sure that no common man would be able to understand it in full clarity irrespective of the language one spoke :).
Jokes apart, our forefathers were thoughtful enough that they believed in true diversity and inclusion and hence they made many national languages and not one, and precisely not Hindi/ Sanskrit.
When a Government tries to force something instead of other, unless people revolt it is just a matter of time when one's identity is lost. One should try to create a system where two things can exist in parallel and cause no problem, instead of making one-ways.
Just as a few points to think before I complete, there were many languages which flourished in India, and I am pretty sure that we would have had minimum of 25 languages with good history and literature, and now how many do we have ?
The current Government again tries to meddle with History to make things worse , when we should be proud of our history and should try to learn more about us, the Government simply wants to stop the whole stuff, as it again conflicts to their theory of One-India.
Links of Interest :
Transfer Of Archaelogist - Tamil Nadu
Leave History Alone
Bye till next,
Nandri,
Dhanyavad,
Dhan'yavādagaḷu,
India is a land of diversity. Diversity as the dictionary meaning says its a range of different things.
We have to believe in this, and if you do not believe in this, no matter what the reality is you will be called as Anti-national , and probably you will be asked to surrender your Aadhar card immediately.
India , as we know has 29 states and 7 Union territories. But from a South Indian perspective , it is like apart from the 4 states TamilNadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra ( actually 5 states as Telangana also needs to be added, but who cares !) rest all can be safely called as North India, and the people as Northies.
While from a North Indian perspective, anybody who speaks a language which they cannot comprehend can be safely called as Madarasis.
Though we are split here, we are all united in one thought that , we believe that those people who speak any language other than our language are complete morons.
This is why we always end up in the language controversies, which will finally end up like this post with no point.
Recently, there is a language controversy, that the central Government is imposing Hindi in all states, through various means. Sometime back, central Government was trying to do the same with Sanskrit and asked all schools to celebrate a Sanskrit day, and they decided to remove German from the school curriculum and replaced it with Sanskrit.
This was all happening in North India, and we were wondering why on earth in the first place we had German in our school, and why it was not there in our school.
The reason why all students like to have a non-local language in their school , can be many and we believe in diversity. For instance, some gangs may like to speak in their language among themselves so that other gangs does not come to know of their plans to win a cricket match, other reason could be that it can be a good break in a day as there will be no staff to teach them and it becomes a free hour.
When schools are finding it tough to get teachers to teach their local language, we introduce a foreign language expecting a ex-pat to come all the way from Berlin to Mundasuppati and teach German.
Going further back, there was a anti-Hindi protest in 60s , which now nobody bothers as it is so-long-ago when Facebook and Twitter were not there, and what kind of protest would it be without a Black DP and #StopHindiImperialism trend tags.
It is not like we hate Hindi or other language, some of us who had studied in CBSE had Hindi as a third language were always happy that they had got an extra free hour that day, and the staff who did the class for third-language was mostly a Maths teacher who had done his/her graduation in a city where some Hindi guy would have traveled in the same mode of transport to the same place. That becomes a good connect to Hindi and to give an additional responsibility of teaching Hindi.
I mean no offence to Hindi/ Sanskrit, but in the same-time I believe that they can and should be taught and not imposed. There is a saying in Tamil, Anjula valayadadu ambadula valayadu , which signifies that if one does not learn at 5, it will not be possible for him to learn at 50. This is what the Government should try to do start from the grassroots level and solve the problem there and not impose straightaway.
Tamils, are not aliens to Hindi, we grew up watching Doordarshan having 22 hours Hindi programs and 2 hour Tamil program, and the two hours as well one will be able to see only if he is in Tamilnadu, if you are out of state for some reason, you will not be able to watch it. This would make me even wonder, how on earth is that signals from Delhi reach TamilNadu while the signals from Chennai, then Madras does not reach Madurai. See the Hindi imperialism started from there.
Coming to the media, see even the advertisements for vehicles be it Maruti 800 or TVS XL Super or Benz , all the vehicles will have their registrations in Maharashtra and they will be driving in Snow and rain.
Come on, we from Tamilnadu have never seen snow except for scenes from the movie Roja, and the topic of rain and water is another debate. And there will be claims of me being an anti national or to be precise anti-tamilian that I did not write a blog during water crisis or Jallikattu protests.
We may belong to a state where we do not have much rainfall and snow but we drive bikes and cars, and all the ad makers and companies are only Hindi Imperialists and they are anti-tamilians.
Now one can know how easy it is to instigate a language controversy and India with so many tongues can never avoid a language controversy. Now from an constitutional perspective, our forefathers knew that this will happen and that is why they wrote the whole stuff in a diplomatic and un-biased manner , and made sure that no common man would be able to understand it in full clarity irrespective of the language one spoke :).
Jokes apart, our forefathers were thoughtful enough that they believed in true diversity and inclusion and hence they made many national languages and not one, and precisely not Hindi/ Sanskrit.
When a Government tries to force something instead of other, unless people revolt it is just a matter of time when one's identity is lost. One should try to create a system where two things can exist in parallel and cause no problem, instead of making one-ways.
Just as a few points to think before I complete, there were many languages which flourished in India, and I am pretty sure that we would have had minimum of 25 languages with good history and literature, and now how many do we have ?
The current Government again tries to meddle with History to make things worse , when we should be proud of our history and should try to learn more about us, the Government simply wants to stop the whole stuff, as it again conflicts to their theory of One-India.
Links of Interest :
Transfer Of Archaelogist - Tamil Nadu
Leave History Alone
Bye till next,
Nandri,
Dhanyavad,
Dhan'yavādagaḷu,
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