Just a couple of days back I was watching one of the leading hindi national news channels, the story was about leaders of BJP using very tough Hindi, the clip that they showed to back their claim left me absolutely flabbergasted. I mean have our general sense and understanding of our mother tongue stooped to such abysmal levels that we as literate beings having passed out of a school system which teaches us Nirala, Dinkar and Pant, can't even understand our own mother tongue. I mean I don't expect a lay man to be familiar with that language but when a political leader addresses a gathering of reporters who thrive and earn their living mincing and manipulating language and words, he is well within his rights to use language and terminology which should not be foreign or alien to a literate mind. I find it actually shameful that such a thing was being shown by a leading channel on national TV.
As I have always said, Hindi needs protection and we should be proud of our language and not mock people who actually know it and are using it. Any developed nation has a thread binding its people. In most of the developed world it is religion and language. If not religion then let atleast language be the binding force. Only then can India rise as one.
Signing off....
SM
