Posted on: 22-05-11 08:24:18
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Originally posted by ramar2005
If we are not deviating from the topic, is it compulsory that one should be proficient in Hindi for India to be one?
YES. Language can be the only thread that ties all the Indians together. Otherwise, we have too much divisions based on regional language/religion/caste.
I believe Hindustani or Hindi was promoted for same purpose before independence. To unite all Indians.
I feel disgusted when any educated Indian cannot speak or understand Hindi.
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Originally posted by ramar2005
BTW, Jaya is very proficient in all the main south indian languages Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and also in Hindi.
Because she was a film actress?
Millions in Tamil Nadu got their patriotic fervour, not listning to Hindi but to Subramanya Bharathi's poems. Your arey and hai are as much meaningless to us as our Vaada and Poda to you. It is very much necessary that we should be proficient in the local language of the land where we have to make a living. But why should the railways write the name board of a remote station in Tirunelveli district of TN in Hindi. Do they write any remote Bihar village railway station board in Tamil. For the sake of national integration I would like to learn first my neighborhood languages like Kannada, Telugu or Malayalam and not Hindi. If there is anything that is disgusting it is only any of these Hindiites forgetting their roots and Indian culture trying to ape the west like these bollywood people. Last but not the least people from Rajasthan, UP and Gujarat have settled down in TN and are very succesful. During the last 100 years are so they have been contributing so much to TN and especially Chennai, it can be very much seen when we step out of the Chennai Central Railway Station into their Sowcarpet. Unlike their northen brothers they are very simple and do not show off their wealth. All this they have done by learning the local language Tamil and adopting to this culture.
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