Have you ever been scolded of speaking in Hindi ? I am sure, that the answer would be yes. It is a common phenomena in Schools (English medium) and Colleges of India. I am in a business school, and here we find students studying from every part of India. I have recently found my friends scolded of, "Murmuring" in Hindi. They believe, English is language of corporates, businesses and the industry.
Not an issue!
Languages have always helped in socializing. Let us take a day to day example. If you find your faculty, a "Bong", and you being too, you will soon find a rapport with him/her, chattering in Bengali. Similarly a "Kannadiga" would be able to please his/her "Kannadiga" teacher, "Mallu" has a good rapport with "Mallu" faculty, and the same story repeats for Tamil, Gujarati, Telugu etc.. But you cannot follow the same rule for Hindi. Dare to speak Hindi in front of your faculty! It is been considered that, English is the language of the literate, where as Hindi, "a cheap language". Similar phenomena is also seen among the students also.
Not an issue !
The issue?
Even regional languages are more respected in India than Hindi. As Hindi is considered as the language of weaker section of the society.
The reason?
Hindi is the language of the masses. And I have always felt, something which is in abundant never gets respect. Hindi being spoken in all parts of the country, doesn't get its due respect. Where as regional languages like Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil etc. are not considered as low as Hindi, in comparison to English.
The solution?
Even I don't know. Might be people associated with Hindi literature could suggest something on it. Might be, we could ever stop thinking, one language being superior to other.
But why to blog about it?
It was just an observation, that even Hindi being our national language, it never got due respect whereas other regional languages have scored much more in dignity.
And in the end, as every one believes, Hindi is our "मात्र भाषा " !!!
My dream?
Someday, the world would be striving to learn Hindi language, similar to, as we are desperately running after English!
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ITS DEPENDS UPON COMPANY TO COMPANY AND ITS WORK CULTURE THAT DECIDES MODE OF COMMUNICATION... IN THE COMPANY IN WHICH I M WRKING WITH, PEOPLE SPEAK IN THE LANGUAGE THT IS UNDERSTOOD BY THE RECEIVER ... ie MY COLLEGUES TALK IN HINDI, AND THEIR REGIONAL LANGUAGES..SAME HOLDS FOR BOSSES... IN SOME SOFTWARE COMPANIES, INSTRUCTIONS ARE BEING GIVEN THROUGH MAILS...(ok they r in english).... SO ITS NOTHING LIKE ENGLISH IS A CORPORATE LANGUAGE... STILL ITS A COMMON TOOL BEING USED.... JUST AS WEARING BLK SUIT WITH TIE WILL NT MAKE U A PROFESSIONAL SIMILARLY, TALKING IN ENGLISH WILL NT MAKE U A PIECE OF CORPORATE WORLD.... :)
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