Re: [IAC#RG] IMPOSITION OF HINDI ON NON HINDI SPEAKING STATES

If you do not know Hindi you can start by learning it. Gujaratis, Marathis, Bengalis, Punjabis, have no fear that Hindi will alienate them. I am a Gujarati myself and I love Hindi and consider it one of the sweetest languages (second to Bengali). Just because you are born into a particular language, does not mean you cannot adopt another. Prime Minister Modi is a Gujarati. He manages to speak very good Hindi.  Besides being the most widely spoken language in India , it is the easiest to learn too. Hindi is a unifying not a dividing language. You can keep raising issues to divide the Indian people or you can cherish in their diversity and marvel at their inclusive and bonding capacity.

On 15 September 2014 19:56, Venkatraman Ns <nsvenkatchennai@gmail.com> wrote:

 

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                                                                                   IMPOSITION  OF  HINDI  ON  NON  HINDI  SPEAKING  STATES

 

It is surprising that those in charge of policy making in NDA  government do not understand the intensity of the anger and frustration  amongst the people in the non Hindi states due to the subtle attempts of Modi government to gradually impose Hindi. 

The genuine fear of the people in the non Hindi speaking states is that they would be reduced to second class citizens in the country  if Hindi would be imposed , as those speaking Hindi will get distinct advantage over the non Hindi speaking people at the national level.

Mr. Naredndra Modi does not seem to be aware of the  intense and popular anti Hindi agitation in non Hindi speaking states particularly in Tamil Nadu, when Mr. Lal Bahadur Shastri was the Prime Minister.  Schools and colleges had to remain closed for around three months in Tamil Nadu due to anti Hindi  protest by the students. Finally, Mr. Shastri had to give an assurance that Hindi would not be made national language so long as non Hindi speaking people would not want it. The situation has not much changed as far as the imposition of Hindi is concerned.

Today, India has enough problems and there is no feelings of difference in the country on  language issue. Mr. Narendra Modi  should not create new issues by trying to impose Hindi.

Even today, many people in non Hindi speaking states , particularly in Tamil Nadu , feel like aliens as they do not understand Mr. Modi speaking Hindi everywhere without any translators. When he spoke in Hindi to the school children on Teacher's Day , lakhs of school students in non Hindi speaking states felt left out and wondered  as to whether the Prime Minister belong to  Hindi knowing people only.

 

N.S.Venkataraman

Nandini Voice For The Deprived

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