"Hindi is our National language" - Ajay Devgan - Page 8

I'm pretty shocked seeing the hatred for Hindi in this thread... Plus that cow urine jibe 👎🏼

Originally posted by: NathuPyare

I'm pretty shocked seeing the hatred for Hindi in this thread... Plus that cow urine jibe 👎🏼

Actually I am pretty shocked at the lack of knowledge people have here regarding the national language and the reasons or justifications of wanting to have one. Even the national anthem is not spared with weird whatsapp uni facts. 😆

I am just shocked to see how easy it is to divide Indians, I knew religion was an issue but I never knew these nuts will fight over language too Only if they had the same compassionate for their country and fellow citizens that they have for inconsequential things like language and religion, we wouldn't be facing these problems

Hindi should not be a national language as making hindi national language potentially nullify the usage of regional language.as currently in offices its english which is used majorly. At home its mother tongue. Then if people starts protesting that in southern state people should learn and speak in hindi the usage of state languages would reduce. Currently hindi is optional in some southern state those people who does not know hindi will be degraded.

It should not be made mandatory by calling hindi as national language. Southern people learn languages by their own will. Many south indians already know hindi as they are good at learning other languages like i myself know almost 3 to 4 languages still want to learn other languages where as my dad knows almsot 6 to 7 languages.

It should not be made mandatory and people can learn it based on their need. Like if they are moving to north let them learn hindi. If they are staying in south ocassionally they are going somewhere then they can always have some translator or some app which can translate for them.

Originally posted by: NoraSM

I am just shocked to see how easy it is to divide Indians, I knew religion was an issue but I never knew these nuts will fight over language too Only if they had the same compassionate for their country and fellow citizens that they have for inconsequential things like language and religion, we wouldn't be facing these problems

Even though i dont have any special attachment as my state language is not my mother tongue. But i have seen people who are emotionally attached as they have both their mother tongue and state language as same.

They kind of scared of the thought that their mother tongue will vanish some day. Because now a days even in house hold people started speaking in english with their kids because they think kids will learn english and their language skill will improve.

I have seen many people who even dont learn state language. If they say hindi is national language there are high chances that kids will opt out of state language as its not mandatory to survive.

Originally posted by: firewings_diya

the reason is people are bit emotionally attached to the languages.

Even though i dont have any special attachment as my state language is not my mother tongue. But i have seen people who are emotionally attached as they have both their mother tongue and state language as same.

They kind of scared of the thought that their mother tongue will vanish some day. Because now a days even in house hold people started speaking in english with their kids because they think kids will learn english and their language skill will improve.

I have seen many people who even dont learn state language. If they say hindi is national language there are high chances that kids will opt out of state language as its not mandatory to survive.

I think everyone should speak in the language which is easy for them, we don't need one language for India

Originally posted by: prerna4rishav

Actually I am pretty shocked at the lack of knowledge people have here regarding the national language and the reasons or justifications of wanting to have one. Even the national anthem is not spared with weird whatsapp uni facts. 😆

Yeah... Different strokes for different folks 🤷🏼‍♂️

The main reason why most of the Hindi speaking members here are not getting why people down South or other parts of India speak about this language debate is because they don't live in South or other parts of India.

No one dislikes Hindi the language, people down South dislike the people who speak Hindi because of their condescending nature where they won't make an effort to learn say even basic Tamil or Kannada, etc and instead act like the locals need to speak in Hindi. I won't mince words here but there IS a huge section of people from North India who have this supremacist attitude when they work down South and think their dadagiri will work around and that India revolves only around North India. A big example would be a city like Bangalore. First you come from your home city to another looking for work and job opportunities that your home city doesn't provide, then cry crib about people there not speaking your language 'Hindi', make fun of the locals, their language and their practices and then expect them to respect you back for your shitty attitude?

The reason why the language debate is becoming bigger day by day is because people in rest of the country is just fed up with this constant supremacist attitude by many Hindi speakers residing in other parts of the country, mainly Delhi. And the constant attempt through ages to distort history and to single out Hindi as this great language because they speak that in northern part of the country. I mean we all have studied in our school that Hindi is our national language thanks to these education boards setttled in Delhi only to know later that Hindi is just ONE of the many national languages of India. 🤡

I mean all Sudeep said in an event is "You said that a pan India film was made in Kannada. I’d like to make a small correction. Hindi is no more a national language. They (Bollywood) are doing pan-India films today. They are struggling (to find success) by dubbing in Telugu and Tamil, but it’s not happening. Today, we are making films that are going everywhere and this is all it took to ruffle the feather of these supremacist Hindi speakers like Ajay who couldn't gulp down the fact that Hindi is no more getting the 'special status' that people like them have been trying to give since ages to push down their language and ideologies.

It's this attitude among a particular group of Hindi speakers that people hate and dislike and it's rampant especially down in South India.

Originally posted by: BirdieNumNum

It's great to hold on to regional culture but for economic/ social cohesion, it would be better if we ADDED a more universal language like hindi.

On the contrary, multilingualism is supposed to be good for the economy Birdie, and there's data to back it up: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/speaking-more-languages-boost-economic-growth/

Indians are too diverse to be viewed as one homogeneous group so I suggest we all learn each other's language, if possible, and work on the said cohesiveness that you so apparently, genuinely, yearn 😊

Whatever happened to "Unity in diversity" huh?!

Metaphysically speaking, oneness is impossible unless we go back to singularity so we have to find a way to live with all the divisions that already happened. Tsk tsk!!

Originally posted by: K.Universe.

On the contrary, multilingualism is supposed to be good for the economy Birdie, and there's data to back it up: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/speaking-more-languages-boost-economic-growth/

Indians are too diverse to be viewed as one homogeneous group so I suggest we all learn each other's language, if possible, and work on the said cohesiveness that you so apparently, genuinely, yearn 😊

Whatever happened to "Unity in diversity" huh?!

Metaphysically speaking, oneness is impossible unless we go back to singularity so we have to find a way to live with all the divisions that already happened. Tsk tsk!!

the keyword above was ADDED, K. I am talking about adding, not taking away. So i might as well usurp your data to buttress my point. There has to be a way people across the country can communicate with each other across all economic and cultural strata. And i dont mean the language of desi nri twangs.😆