Vidya Bhushan Rawat
Our Home Minister has talked about the importance of Hindi as a national language. He said, it would ‘strengthen’ national unity. These ideas are not knew which are emerging from Sangh parivar whose vision of India purely the dominance of the Aryan Race led by north Indian brahmins or Banias. The thought of diversity instill fear among them as they want to unify India in everything including what kind of cloths would you like to wear.
I come from Hindi heartland but the fact is in my region of Uttarakhand, people speak so many dialects. I was amazed to see the powerful Garhwali literature. There is already lot of work on both Garhwali and Kumaoni languages. You can not ignore them being mere dialects. Go to UP and you will find the sweetness of Bundelkhandi, beauty of Avadhi, the danda mar, khari boli of Meerut and western Uttar Pradesh, and the vast spectrum of Bhojpuri which crosses both UP and Bihar at the moment and is being celebrated by the non resident Indians too.
Language in India is a contentious issue. I have always maintained that we need to admit the diversity of our culture which include languages, food habits, and living style. All these develop according to our geographical locations.
Our Constitutional forefathers were visionary and understood this thing. Language of a state is basically straight forward related its identity and culture. We must learn from the mistake that Pakistan did immediately after the independence. The Governor General, Mohammad Ali Jinnah was on a visit to Dhaka and was to address a huge gathering at the campus of Dhaka University. Over three lakh people were waiting to hear him and it was a new state so the Muslim sentiments were high, in the East Bengal. It was March 21st, 1948 in the Dhaka University Campus, Jinnah announced proudly : ” “Without one state language, no nation can remain tied up solidly together and function’. ..
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