WHERE IS HINDI? WHY HINDI CAN NOT BE IMPOSED AS NATIONAL LANGUAGE? by: Dr. Rajan R Patil

WHERE IS HINDI? WHY HINDI CAN NOT BE IMPOSED AS NATIONAL LANGUAGE? by: Dr. Rajan R Patil, SRM University, Chennai.


Dear friends,

Personally I do subscribe to the view “ jo hindi me hai baat, vo kisi aur me nahi” and for the very same reason have taken on some of my radical madrasi, kannadiga, Marathi friends for their linguistic fanatic stands. I do keep urging them to be pan national to appreciate the beauty of our diversity….some day I would like confront karunanidhi, vatal nagraj and Raj Thakares on the issue .

At the same time Modi is also blissfully being ignorant when he claims Hindi is single largest language spoken by Indians, with UP and Bihar being heartland of hindi Belt. That One more Myth propagated by his ilk.

I have been  travelling across  Uttar Pradesh(UP) extensively for past few weeks. I have been invited to monitor and  evaluate a research study on Dirrhoea control using Zink supplementation  in children in UP and Bihar.  I   was pilot testing their Hindi questionnaire on diarrhea and ORS practices in rural community. To my surprise Simple words like “ kya KAARAN he’, ‘LAKSHAN kya he’ or “PRABHAVI he ki nahi”  "goli PARYAPT he ki nahi" etc were not being understood by the rural community in close to Lucknow city. Obviously the questionnaire was prepared in delhi. Worse the there was a real heavy duty word’ NIRJALIKARAN ‘meaning dehydration which I am sure even a pediatrician would find it hard to pronounce and understand let alone a rural community. My first recommendation to the the funders and implementors of this research project  was to completely desikaran the questionnaire other wise they will get all funny results.

My point is, Modi’s Hindi starts fizzling within just 25kms radius from capital city Lucknow in so called Hindi heartland UP itself. I encountered Range of dialects starting from, khadi boli, Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Braj bhasha to name few which absolutely have no similarity to the highly sanskritisised chaste hindi that Modi and his group is trying to impose. 

I really long for  earlier Hindustani language (urdu mixed hindi) that really gave that entoxicating touch to the emotions penned by  Kaifi azmi, Mazrooh sultanpuri, gulzar, Hasrat jaipuri etc that made us fall in love with hindi, I still cant go to bed without enjoying one or two of them. Today with increasling political agenda to  sankitisize the Hindi and discourage use of urdu ....i feel soul is  being lost out of this very beautiful language.

Sarkari Hindi is not the hindi spoken by masses..not even in UP and Bihar then how can it ever by imposed on entire country as national language. India is such a beautiful diverse country any attmept to force, language, religion is neither practical nor ethical. Let all languages,culture, religions flourish and peacefully coexist as they have done for last 5000 years in Bharat. There is absolutely no need to rake these non issue.  

Regards,
rajan


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Dr.Rajan R Patil
Epidemiologist
School of Public Health
SRM University,
Chennai.

Cell :9445811610