Language harmony vs. language power

The average city speaks of Indian three or four languages ​​and is a familiar acquaintance with a couple. , Photo Credit: Getty Images

My wife’s maternal grandfather was a Rajput and Malayali. His mother married a Andhra, her sister is a Punjabi. His son’s wife is Algerian, our son is a Scott. If generations ate together, one should make for a babel of voices on the dinner table. Everyone spoke English, however. There were also people who learned Sanskrit, French and German. Language is only one of the methods we communicate.

I do not know what is the difference in the second and third language in our life. I was struggling with Hindi in high school as I got out of the list of small performances of Mohammad Rafi and Kishore Kumar songs. The average city speaks of Indian three or four languages ​​and is a familiar acquaintance with a couple. Most of my companions were found to be the second and third language irrelevant for their future career. But such things become clear only in later life. This is the option that is important.

It makes sense to offer an Indian language in addition to schools besides English. India is the second largest English -speaking country in the world, after all. It also seems appropriate to offer local language, but can also be seen as an allegation as professionals get jobs in various areas across the country. A Punjabi children are unlikely to be easier in Kannada on job transfer in Bengaluru. Perhaps there should be an option of ‘higher English’.

Late Ur Anantamurthy often said that it was everyone’s duty to learn the language of the state where he lived. This is true. But such knowledge comes from interaction with the local people, not by teaching badly from the textbooks produced badly. Usually provoke rejection.

Then qualified language is the issue of teachers. It is easy to say that you can learn any language, but it means that Bhojpuri is a qualified teacher, for example, in Kerala, or Tamil in Ladakh. Our political style has borrowed from the theme in old Western films: shoot first, later regret. Rules are before an intelligent evaluation of professionals and opposition. Demandalization is a good example.

If the southern states areware of imposing Hindi, they have a historic movement against this move as reference points. In the 1960s, DMK rode the popular Hindi opposition to coming to power in Tamil Nadu. Language politics is nesting with many of its languages ​​under the politics of power in our country. It is as ridiculous to force people to learn Hindi in the south as they are forced to learn Tamil in the north.

An unexpected result of all this has been the chaos of language in this field. In recent years, Kannada, the language of a gentle people, has seen such a nutism. Language warriors have noticed in the future and have seen the resulting impact on their mother tongue disappearance and their culture and tradition. There is not only about communication for language. It is the key to history, identity, self-value and community. Politicians often do not get this.