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| Hindi is the national and unifying language | | | Omkar Dattatray | 9/26/2019 10:27:39 PM |
| | India is a multi cultural, multilingual and multi religious country. All languages are great and important. Languages are sign of the regional diversities and identities and promise of preserving regional diversities and languages are necessary for keeping the country united. Therefore, nothing should be done in the sphere of languages that will divide our country and this integrates us. Therefore, for safeguarding regional identities, diversities and pride all the regional languages should get proper place and recognition. Our country has faced language problem not only in 1960s after independence but even before freedom in 1940s as well. The language issue was a dominant one. Before independence the feeling the imposition of Hindi on non Hindi speaking states and people as well as on southern states gained momentum and there was stiff opposition from southern states and the powers that be shelved the motive of compulsory teaching of Hindi. Though all languages are great and have their role in preservation of regional cultural and pride, still there must be someone language which will represent and recognize India on the international platform and that language is Hindi which is spoken and understood by majority of Indians. A country without a national language is a country without soul and that country is dead. Hindi rightly occupies the place of pride among different languages of India and it deserved the recognition of being the national language of India. Hindi is the national as well as official language of India along with English which is the second official language of India. The constitution makers have realized it that at one stroke Hindi cannot replace English as the only official langue of India and thus they have said that till the time Hindi can be wholly made the only official language of India especially at central level, English can and should be used as the second official language of India. A country without a national language is dead and soul less and thus it is all the more important to have a national language with which the country can be recognized and represented at the international level. Since such a language is Hindi and the government should make sincere efforts to popularize Hindi in its offices and institutions. But at the same time Hindi should not be imposed on non-Hindi speaking people and on southern and north-eastern states. If attempts are made to Hindi in southern states, it will backfire and will not serve the purpose of uniting India. So, Hindi deserves to be given its rightful place and non speaking Hindi people and states should themselves voluntarily embrace and adopt Hindi as being the national language of India. The three language formula is a best answer to linguistic problem and linguistic chauvinism. Promotion and propagation of Hindi is imparted and this should be accelerated but then imposition of Hindi on non Hindi speaking states is not required and it will lead to chaos and confusion in the volatile society of ours. Therefore, what is required is the promotion of Hindi and it's popularizing but not its imposition in anyway. Push the Hindi is not an attack and assault on the diversity of India rather Hindi can and should become a language of unity and not discord and rightly Hindi is a language that can forge unity and will not divide the society. The issue of languages has attracted the attention of the country and the politicians and reached the centre stage, when the union Home Minister and BJP President Amit Shah has spoken on the "Hindi Divas". He said that the need of the country is to have one language so that foreign languages do not find a place. So far so good. For preservation of the centrality of our culture and philosophy, Hindi should be given its due place and it should be used in the official and administrative communication. Therefore, there is no harm in having Hindi as the national language. The Hindi as the national language gives a place of pride to India in the comity of nations. Amit shah has made it clear that centre is going to enact the exercise of Assam type NRC in West Bengal and Mamta Banerjee as usual will challenge it. But in the mad rush of imposing Hindi on non Hindi speaking state and in west Bengal, the Bengali language should not be bracketed as a foreign language as it is the national language of Bangladesh. Therefore, all regional languages should flourish side by side with Hindi language in India and the constitution guarantees and we should respect this spirit of India. Unity in diversity is the life line of the country and the spirit of diversity should be maintained and at the same time national language Hindi should be promoted, popularized for the unity of our country. Language is the medium of connection, communication and unity but at the same time it can become the tool of discord and disunity. We have two official languages of Hindi and English and 22 regional languages enlisted in the 8th Schedule of the constitution. It is true that Modi 2.0 government has got numerical strength and will to make bold decisions but this strength should not be used to impose Hindi on non hindi speaking states as this will germinate the fears of discord and disunity. Gandhiji and patel wanted one national language but at the same time wanted to preserve regional languages of India. BJP government in its zeal of Hindi, Hindu, Hindusitan should not do anything in the languages domain which will tantamount to imposing Hindi in sourthern states and making it compulsory. But we should give Hindi its proper place as it is the language which had a great value in our freedom struggle and culture. Other regional languages have also contributed their bit in the freedom movement. The new education policy talked about compulsory of Hindi but it attracted stiff opposition from southern states and Dravidians. Thus it was put on hold. Our three language formula is the best panacea for the language issue as it is doing well. English is the international language and language of exchange and business and its value is great in India. Let me conclude with the great words of an authority who said that English is the gift of Goddess Sarswati to India. However, it is the greatness and the glory of India that we have so many languages from North to South and East to West. |
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