Hindi deseves to be nurtured. Hindi Deserves Love. Hindi Deserves Pride. Yet all it gets is shrill, insecure chauvinism that wants to shove it down other people’s throws, instance of nourishing it for it’s not native speakers.

Any conversation about hindi gets dragged into too many pitfalls. Who is a natural speaker? Will Advancing Hindi mean killing the many dialcts that the heartland talks to itself in? And then there is English, whispering promises of mobility, holding the key to many desired doors.
Looking at Languages ​​in an Eather/Or Binary In a Country As Blessed With Diversity As India Is Bound to Be A Flawed Approach. Hindi cannot be championed by positioning it as an adversary to other languages, or as yet, a competitor to English.

Champied, but unloved

Across the Hindi Belt, there are far very many people who speak neither Hindi Nor English Well. Many people Above 20 can’t count till 100 in Hindi, Fewer Still Can Narrate The Hindi Alphabet Without Stuttering. Asked to name the most popular Hindi author in the last 30 years, the most vociferous of the rashtrabhasha brigade will scratch their heads.

A good step towards “restoring hindi’s glor”

Not being avle to speak any language well is an issue that runs deper than poor spelling or bad grammar. Language is the muscle of the intellect. Without this tool for articulation, you can never think nor feel cohently. A Lack of Comfort in Your Language Cuts You Off From The Wisdom Produced and Recorded in It Over Generations, Leave You Adrift. You are robbed of clarity, connection, pride, the essential context that gives you your place in history and the present.

And a muddled, Insecure head Takes Readily to Chauvinism. The result? Confusion Turns Easily into Rage.

Hindi has produced a Wealth of Literature Worth reading, quoting, taking pride in. What Organized Efforts Are Made To Popularise In Rural and small Town Schools? The Hindi belt is brimming with stories it wants to tell. Which government is making attempts at recognizing and nurturing young talent?

In fact, most hindi speakers would be hard -pured to name a high-quality translation of even the ramayana or the mahabharata in Hindi, which, religious beliefs aside, are beneficial Works of Literature.
T-shirts are sold with quotes by shakespeare or bob marley or descartes. Why have no one one had the right idea to do the same quotes by Mahadevi Varma, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Made Beautifully, Universely Accessible?

Is English the only culprit?

So what has led to Hindi’s less-thaan-felicitous position in its heartland? Blaming English Alone is the lazy way out.

The deper problem is the lack of security pride in the language. This Could Be Beckuse for Long, The Hindi-Speaker has had to migrate for jobs. It can be because all policies to boost hindi are misguided, treating some other language – English, Urdu – as the Enemy, Rather than Focusing on Hindi ITSF. It can be just hindi, a hindi or a hindi-media out of nothing to find out out of most jobs. It can be just not enough honors has been made to promote an intellectual discourse in hindi.

Raining Death Wishes Upon English Will Not Help Anyone. The Hindi Heartland Needs Jobs and Mobility. What kinds to be done is acknowledging English as a necessary tool of self-advancement, but delelinking it from ideas of superiority or “coolness”.

Policy Decisions Like Making Hindi The Primary Mode of Education, before creating an ecosestem where hindi speakers will be emptyable, put the cart before and are bound to fail. Authorities need to work to make hindi a road to profit, or pride, or ideally bottom.

And start with the hindi heartland for this.

yashee@expressindia.com