Do we really need Hindi for national unity?.

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Shanmugham

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Posted: 14 years ago

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Do you really think that a single National language could unite India which is already in shatters due to caste and regional differences?. Even in Hindi speaking states there is no unity and there are lot of communal, and political violences being witnessed.. How can it unite the country ?.This is the case with other linguistic states.. A common language could only ease communication only.. It wont bring about a cultural and humanistic unity in a country.. Our country is a union of linguistic states and bridging them with one language would always create a havoc.. This has been witnessed for many centuries..

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Summer3

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Posted: 14 years ago

Learn as many languages as possible. India being so huge need at least 3 languages.

English is for communication internationally.

Hindi for the North and perhaps Tamil for the South.

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Kankshita

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Posted: 14 years ago

Languages and unity have nothing to do with each other. English is supposed to be known by all, cause unless you're no well-versed in it, you'd have huge communication problems. And then, Hindi just doesn't stand a chance, it is a beautiful language but majority of the country isn't quite in terms with it, more than half the population. How is that gonna fetch you unity now?

Unions form if people got the spirit, what difference would a language make?

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sudesh kumar

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Posted: 14 years ago

yeah we need hindi to show the defragmented face of the country...

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hindu4lyf

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Posted: 14 years ago

Originally posted by: -Kanky-
Languages and unity have nothing to do with each other. English is supposed to be known by all, cause unless you're no well-versed in it, you'd have huge communication problems. And then, Hindi just doesn't stand a chance, it is a beautiful language but majority of the country isn't quite in terms with it, more than half the population. How is that gonna fetch you unity now?

Unions form if people got the spirit, what difference would a language make?

Actually I disagree. Language and unity most definitely do have a connection. Let's take Punjabis living in the US for example..when they speak to one another in their own language, they feel a sense of belonging, a sense of unity. When surrounded by friends that speak Punjabi, Gujarati, Telugu etc, it's great having one common language between us that connects us all. It doesn't mean that we don't respect each other's languages, but it just means we have a common factor that unites us.😊

If majority of the country was really so against it then Bollywood films wouldn't have such a large following. It really isn't a difficult language to learn at all. I have many Nepali friends who simply hate watching Nepali films and grew up watching Bollywood films and their Hindi is amazing! Hindi is by far the largest spoken Indian language in India and promoting the language can't possibly do any harm seeing as the main opposition seems to be coming from the South. I remember my parents telling me how they went down south recently and many taxi walas simply refuse to respond to you if you speak to them in Hindi, even if some do understand it and will only respond if you speak in their language or in English.Frankly I do not see the logic behind such behaviour, why do these people have such large egos when it comes to learning other languages..Hindi in particular?

If in Sri Lanka the Tamils can learn to converse in Sinhalese and if the Indians and Chinese living in Malaysia can learn Malay, why can't the rest of India learn Hindi? I guess this is why I love Mumbai so much! There are areas that are dominated by Jains/Gujjus, South Indians, Punjabis, Marathis etc but almost all are fluent in Hindi.😊

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Summer3

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Posted: 14 years ago

Hindi mein bate karo😆

I also love all languages n the more the merrier.
Language is closely related to customs too n should be preserved. Still a National language is practical.

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Posted: 14 years ago

Originally posted by: Summer3
Learn as many languages as possible. India being so huge need at least 3 languages.
English is for communication internationally.

Hindi for the North and perhaps Tamil for the South.

Tamil for the south?????...what 😆😆😆

This si the biggest misconception of people...South India has many states n Tamilnadu is only 1 amongst them...where Tamil is used..every state has its language n other states people does not know Tamil ..

coming to topic...Hindi

I think we should definitely have a basic language for communication other than mother tongue to help us when we are out of our place...

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Kankshita

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Posted: 14 years ago

Originally posted by: hindu4lyf

Actually I disagree. Language and unity most definitely do have a connection. Let's take Punjabis living in the US for example..when they speak to one another in their own language, they feel a sense of belonging, a sense of unity. When surrounded by friends that speak Punjabi, Gujarati, Telugu etc, it's great having one common language between us that connects us all. It doesn't mean that we don't respect each other's languages, but it just means we have a common factor that unites us.😊

If majority of the country was really so against it then Bollywood films wouldn't have such a large following. It really isn't a difficult language to learn at all. I have many Nepali friends who simply hate watching Nepali films and grew up watching Bollywood films and their Hindi is amazing! Hindi is by far the largest spoken Indian language in India and promoting the language can't possibly do any harm seeing as the main opposition seems to be coming from the South. I remember my parents telling me how they went down south recently and many taxi walas simply refuse to respond to you if you speak to them in Hindi, even if some do understand it and will only respond if you speak in their language or in English.Frankly I do not see the logic behind such behaviour, why do these people have such large egos when it comes to learning other languages..Hindi in particular?

If in Sri Lanka the Tamils can learn to converse in Sinhalese and if the Indians and Chinese living in Malaysia can learn Malay, why can't the rest of India learn Hindi? I guess this is why I love Mumbai so much! There are areas that are dominated by Jains/Gujjus, South Indians, Punjabis, Marathis etc but almost all are fluent in Hindi.😊

Lady, you make sense. But what's up with unity outside the country, ah? Indians are dissociated and language can bind two homesick people, not two castes. The caste thing sucks life out of me, you know? But people have and will continue to consider it a major criterion. Hindi is most definitely all that you think it is, I like it too. No wonder, I glue to my seat and read my Hindi lessons when I can actually tease my Hindi teacher and get away with it easily. Languages are important for communication, basically. Post that, which language you'd like to speak is entirely your own choice. So even if the people you mentioned are eaten up by ego, they may actually not want to learn Hindi. When they will, they shall get over their egos.

I live in Delhi, over here everybody speaks Hindi. But what makes them come along is kitchen politics's discussion, movies and stock exchange, or in a teen's life - image-maintenance and the opposite sex. Where's unity now? Or uh, maybe I am getting carried away - what unity are we talking about? 😳

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souro

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Posted: 14 years ago

Originally posted by: hindu4lyf

Actually I disagree. Language and unity most definitely do have a connection. Let's take Punjabis living in the US for example..when they speak to one another in their own language, they feel a sense of belonging, a sense of unity. When surrounded by friends that speak Punjabi, Gujarati, Telugu etc, it's great having one common language between us that connects us all. It doesn't mean that we don't respect each other's languages, but it just means we have a common factor that unites us.😊

If majority of the country was really so against it then Bollywood films wouldn't have such a large following. It really isn't a difficult language to learn at all. I have many Nepali friends who simply hate watching Nepali films and grew up watching Bollywood films and their Hindi is amazing! Hindi is by far the largest spoken Indian language in India and promoting the language can't possibly do any harm seeing as the main opposition seems to be coming from the South. I remember my parents telling me how they went down south recently and many taxi walas simply refuse to respond to you if you speak to them in Hindi, even if some do understand it and will only respond if you speak in their language or in English.Frankly I do not see the logic behind such behaviour, why do these people have such large egos when it comes to learning other languages..Hindi in particular?

If in Sri Lanka the Tamils can learn to converse in Sinhalese and if the Indians and Chinese living in Malaysia can learn Malay, why can't the rest of India learn Hindi? I guess this is why I love Mumbai so much! There are areas that are dominated by Jains/Gujjus, South Indians, Punjabis, Marathis etc but almost all are fluent in Hindi.😊

Language alone by default doesn't guarantee unity neither is it the only way to achieve unity. If it were so, every English speaking individual would be considered as a brother by the Brits.
The only undisputed advantage that a common language provides is ease of communication. But then if I want to communicate easily with the local people of a foreign land, shouldn't I be the one who should put in the effort to learn that language instead of asking them to learn my language? If a South Indian person wants to work in UP, by all means he should learn Hindi. But at present the pro-Hindi movement is more of the opinion that South Indians should learn Hindi so that Hindi speakers coming to work over there will have no difficulty in communicating. That's ridiculous.

Note: The experience with the taxi drivers down South that you wrote about, is different though. In this case it's the taxi driver whose interest is involved. If they want business from a tourist then they might as well make an effort to understand the tourist.

Let's face it, people will learn a foreign language only if there is an incentive. Obviously, Hindi at present lacks that incentive for most people and that's why they are not interested in learning the language.

Coming back to the question of unity. If unity it is that is the end objective, then there are other ways to achieve that. There are so many things that can be done which will make people feel proud to be a part (citizen) of India. Why don't we concentrate on achieving those objectives first instead of pushing an alien language on others, especially when instead of making them feel closer we're only managing to antagonise them?

Edited by souro - 14 years ago

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Kankshita

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Posted: 14 years ago

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Originally posted by: souro

Why?

Uh, I am a rare agnostic species! I do not understand the hypocrisy our society is filled with, prodigal rituals and fasts and marriages worth crores and segregation on grounds of deities you follow - it is like, if you preach and declare that all Gods are one, why are you so biased?! Biased may not be the right word, anyhow - I do not understand the caste and God thing, I only believe in a supreme being who's somewhere and the former, I loathe!

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