What is wrong not learning Hindi? - Page 11

Originally posted by: Minnie

Hindi is also the close Marathi, Gujrati, Urdu, Himachali and Punjabi.

Hence my question - why English and not Hindi?

Originally posted by: SubhashKumar

BTW, this very attitude of non-Marathi ... particularly Hindi speaking people coming to Maharashtra is one of the root causes of the recent trouble.😡

Please do not try to just ignore the issue by labeling it as created by politically motivated parties. Although there could be a political angle to it, the root cause and the main reason why it became such a sensitive issue is because it exists in Maharashtra. Hindi is slowly replacing Marathi in all outside communication. This has started happening after independance and on a mass scale more recently due to uncontrolled migration of North Indian people in last decade or so. I am not against migration; but I am against this taking for granted attitude of Hindi speaking (and Hindi pampering) people who just assume that Hindi is and should be understood by all. I would strongly urge all Hindi speakers to stop this and help India stay united, not just politically but culturally as well.

Originally posted by: SubhashKumar

Oh .. 😉 by this logic, why not all Hindi speakers learn Marathi and/or Guajarati? Why do they speak with them in Hindi and expect them also to communicate in Hindi? Its not just a question of closeness of languages. Its a question of a real meaning of unity in diversity. Hindi imposers want to take India from Unity in Diversity to Unity in Uniformity (which perhaps will lead to to Diversity although Unity)😭

Originally posted by: SubhashKumar

BTW, this very attitude of non-Marathi ... particularly Hindi speaking people coming to Maharashtra is one of the root causes of the recent trouble.😡

Please do not try to just ignore the issue by labeling it as created by politically motivated parties. Although there could be a political angle to it, the root cause and the main reason why it became such a sensitive issue is because it exists in Maharashtra.

😆 chalo, this time around it's people from hindi belt that are perceived to be causing this "recent trouble". What happened in 70's when Bal Thackrey was after South Indians settled in Mumbai? Let's face it - it's those goons thackreys who create these so called problems to begin with just so that they could get some political mileage out of the ruckus. Many Maharashtrians have got it. High time the remaining ones get it too and stop becoming the puppets in the hands of BT and RT.

Hindi is slowly replacing Marathi in all outside communication. This has started happening after independance and on a mass scale more recently due to uncontrolled migration of North Indian people in last decade or so. I am not against migration; but I am against this taking for granted attitude of Hindi speaking (and Hindi pampering) people who just assume that Hindi is and should be understood by all. I would strongly urge all Hindi speakers to stop this and help India stay united, not just politically but culturally as well.

The children of hindi speaking people settled in Maharashtra learn marathi in school. They can speak marathi, hindi and english equally well. I hope you are not preaching that the grown ups, who migrated to Maharashtra, should give up their mother tongue and speak in Marathi only. Even they make an effort to pick the buzz words so that they can get along reasonably well - especially with people who don't speak any other language except Marathi. What else would you want these Hindi speaking folks to do?

And I doubt Hindi is replacing marathi in Maharashtra. If I am not mistaken, most offices, especially the private companies and MNCs, use English as their working language - not Hindi.

No one is saying that regional language people stop communicating with each other in their mother tongue. The point is that we should agree upon one universal language, apart from english, in India that most Indians can speak and understand reasonably well so that there are no barriers in communication. Hindi is the officially chosen national language of our country as it is spoken in lot more states than marathi or tamil or malyali or punjabi or gujrati etc. I don't know why some people always fret and crib about it!

Originally posted by: hindu4lyf

Sorry Gauri but disagree with you there. Hindi is literally taking over Maharashtra. In case any of ya'll are wondering, my family too are non-marathi people who have settled in Maharashtra Mumbai but this was during partition time and mum has been born and brought up there only. Yeah they learn marathi in school and talk it sometimes at home but school kids will interact mianly with each other in Hindi. English is doing a good job taking over there too mind you =\ but it's very broken english, I haven't really comes across a person who speaks it fluently..not saying that I do but everyone's picked up words they've learn in class but that's about it.

and again you're wrong gauri, since when is English taking over marathi or even hindi for that matter in offices? LOL just walk into the bank of baroda for that matter, they all communicate in hindi and bits of marathi. There really is no english there. That's like two british born people speaking french just because they learnt it at school. lol English has its own influence no doubt but please let's not get carried away about english replacing hindi/marathi in offices LOL. Forget offices, as I have a family full of doctors, they all have their own clinics in bandra, santacruz etc and sorry but they do NOT communicate in english.

Originally posted by: Gauri_3

Read my post again. I was talking about private companies and MNCs. Mumbai is the finacial capital of India. If I am not mistaken, a lot of corporations have offices there and langauge for recording work is English.

As far as not seeing Hindi that much around - my post is based on my experience when I lived in Pune. We used to visit my cousin in Mumbai while we were in Pune. Of course, locals who can speak hindi, communicate with non-marathi folks in hindi but I see them use marathi ALWAYS when they communicate with fellow marathis. One thing that I have noted with pretty much all non-hindi speaking Indians, they will talk to you in hindi but the moment someone from their region walks in, they immediately switch to their mother tongue even if you don't understand a single word of their language. Don't tell me this has changed now😆 Nothing wrong in it though. I never had any problem with this because I feel it's natural.

I feel it's the goons like thackreys who create ill-will when it comes to migrants and their culture. Same goes for local goons turned politicians in South also for fanning the anti-hidi sentiments. I doubt the common man would have made an issue about why hindi speaking people speak in hindi or why they don't speak the reregional language fluently😆

But tell me - why do people crib about hindi being the national language? Give me one reason why it should not be and which other Indian language should get that status.

Originally posted by: hindu4lyf

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..................But don't get me wrong, I'm totally for Hindi being the national language! You don't see the british accusing the govt. of forcing the french language on them even though a language is now literally compulsory in majority of schools. So what's the big deal about hindi when it comes from our own country!..?😕