Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Dinesh Kamath's Editorial 'All Indians must know Hindi' that was published in Newsband


All Indians must know Hindi
There is nothing wrong in Indian people learning Hindi. In the guise of opposing imposition of Hindi, leaders fooled the people of some State and prevented them from learning Hindi. People should not be prevented from learning for political reasons.
There's nothing wrong in learning Hindi, just like there's nothing wrong in learning Malayalam or Punjabi or French or German or whatever. There's nothing wrong with someone from UP learning Tamil or Malayalam as well. If Tamil is rejected in UP then Hindi will be rejected in Tamil Nadu.
Barring Tamil Nadu, all southern states of India has no grudge against Hindi.  Anti Hindi and Brahmin sentiments is a fulcrum of Tamil politics since advent of Dravid movement. State has undergone sea change over a period. Hindi remain no more untouchable. Bollywood films are popular. North Indian apparel & cuisine is common in major cities of Tamil Nafu. Present controversy is mere political drama.
There is no harm if people learn English, which has an undeniable repository of knowledge. The funny thing is current generation North Indians are eschewing Hindi. They feel ashamed of it. Hinglish is their tongue.  Modi could do better if he promoted Hindi to North Indians. More languages a person learns, lesser chances this person will have in developing Alzheimer’s
Politicians should not give impression that they are against Hindi. It will harm interest of ordinary people. It seems politicians of Tamil Nadu have a fear i.e. learning of Hindi by the people will pave way to national level political parties in the state. They are holding power at the cost of innocent people's larger interest.
At the Centre, there has been no Prime Minister from Tamil Nadu till now, which has high education percentage and is one of the industrialized state.  
Equal opportunity is not available for known reason that this country is for Hindi speaking people. All other state educated people are slowly moving outside the country to save their cultural freedom. Though they lose at last. It’s a lose-lose situation for all non-Hindi speaking states.

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