Dear PM and his loyal ministers, I appreciate the fact that you people are trying to improve Hindi and take it worldwide but remember the fact that most of the people in South India don't understand Hindi. I had this thought in my mind from the day Modi became PM. But today i must share it.
Today came back home from college and switched on TV to watch Modiji interact with thousands of school children all over the country through video conference.I liked Modi's motivational speeches .So, I was eagerly waiting for his speech but it turned out to be in hindi.I can understand hindi to some extent and that too the hindi which is used in DD news.So, it was a total let down for the people who wanted to hear his speech and couldn't because of the language.
This isn't the first time. In Japan, Modi spoke only in Hindi.And even ordered that only hindi should be used in social networking sites by the ministers and even by the government offices.This is like they are serving for people who know hindi. Some speculations came in that only hindi should be used as the medium of teaching in India.
How can the government impose on hindi on non-hindi speakers ? The reply from those people is that hindi is the national language.Then what abt the other 21 languages declared in the constitution of India.I am not opposing hindi but just stating the facts.Why don't you impose tamil , telugu or kannada in Delhi? You think it is stupid then the Government's statement is also stupid. Modi has been elected unanimous as the PM .So , I think he is a great man and can do wonders for India. So , please don't raise up some linguistic issues. In 1970s , Congress did some thing like this and it was followed by riots in Tamil Nadu.I don't want this to happen again.
All languages are great for its speakers and they are great in many ways.So, everyone must learn their mother tongue . And English is and always will be the bridge between different languages. Know these two languages first and then move on to others. I find many students give up their mother tongue to take up foreign languages.Is this happening in other countries ? NO.
Countries like Japan ,France,China are not diverse like India .So, making hindi as the main mode of communication won't work here.So, Modiji please give your speeches in English atleast in press conferences and especially when you visit other countries.Japan PM is not good in English and so he is giving speeches in his own language but Modi knows english very well then why don't you communicate globally rather than giving the speech in HIndi. The breaking news in all leading news channels is "Inspirational speech by Modi on teachers day "But I feel sad that many people like me couldn't understand it perfectly.
According to our constitution we don't have a National language ..!! India is one of the fewest country in the world which is linguistically diversed ..!! imposing a particular language on the non speakers will result in violent responses, just look back into the history there has been a lot of conflicts regarding the language based issues across the world...!! Imposing some the language on non speakers would be a blunder..! instead of imposing the government should try to protect & develop other linguistic languages within the country because it's the duty of the government to protect interest of the people ..!! so the government & it's representative should act in such a manner that they should be linguistically secular.!
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