Language is one thing which secerns every community from other. Even the ethnic group of same community sometimes gets differentiated based upon language. India in this regard is distinguishingly different from the rest of the world as we have 22 official languages and 22000 dialects. In fact we have 35 different languages with their own script and every language is being spoken by more than a million people. But still we are one as an Indian. A great unity in diversity or rather a great diversity in unity.
Language always plays a determinant role in trussing people. A Marathi speaking Hindu always feels closer to a Marathi speaking Muslim, than a Tamil speaking Hindu. A Bangla speaking Christian feels more connected to a Bangla Brahmin than a Malyali Christian.
Language at the same time brings severance between different ethnic groups. A Bangla Bhadra purush may not like a Hindi speaking person or a Marathi would not like a Bhojpuri person.
Understanding socio-psychology of people is not easy. And in India, this changes with every kilometer you travel. The behavioral pattern of one language speaking community with the other language speaking community is very interesting. And I enjoy experiencing such things.
I am in a job that brings me a lot of opportunity to meet many people everyday. And every person is different.
I met a person who knows more than 7 regional languages. He worked in 7 states of India and as a sovainer had bought the language of that state.
I know a South Indian person who knows better Hindi than any born and brought up Hindi speaking person.
But most importantly, last month I meet a person who is having different and funny view about language. I had attended a workshop in my company. There company employees from different parts of India came. People from different parts of the country, people belonging to different community, different language speaking people and people of different ethnic groups with their own tradition and distinguishingly different life style. There one man was Mr. K. Ganesh. He was a Tamil guy. Tamil language is one of the oldest languages of India. The ancestral scripts claims it to be the oldest language, older than Sanskrit. And this brings a proud feeling to a common Tamil person. They normally disapprove Hindi to be National Language. In more panoptic sense, they hate Hindi Speaking people. This is because of the reason that they are having a feeling that it is Hindi because of which Tamil have not got the recognition that it deserves.
So it was Mr. Ganesh of that workshop. A very old employee of our company. He was one of the most curious person of that entire batch. He knew only two languages, English and Tamil. He not at all know Hindi. Wait, rather he learnt 20 words of Hindi. And he is proud of it. Our favorite pastime in the evening was to teach him few more words of Hindi and let him repeat all the words he learnt. This was creating a very funny situation when he was enunciating some words of Hindi in very funny way. But he keep trying and curious of learning more words.
His view about language was that he wanted to teach Tamil to everyone in the company and himself would learn finer Hindi. And then when everyone starts speaking Tamil, he would insist on communicating in Hindi rather than Tamil. Funny. What was there in his mind while saying so, I really don't know neither I want to analyze. But his view was so very entertaining for us. While saying that he want to teach Tamil to every employee of the company, he was having a great respect to his mother tongue. And when he wishes to learn finer Hindi, he was showing equally a great respect to the National Language.
I think people like Ganesh can play a vital role in bridging the gap between the languages of our country. A good learning for me about language.
Thanks Ganesh!
Language always plays a determinant role in trussing people. A Marathi speaking Hindu always feels closer to a Marathi speaking Muslim, than a Tamil speaking Hindu. A Bangla speaking Christian feels more connected to a Bangla Brahmin than a Malyali Christian.
Language at the same time brings severance between different ethnic groups. A Bangla Bhadra purush may not like a Hindi speaking person or a Marathi would not like a Bhojpuri person.
Understanding socio-psychology of people is not easy. And in India, this changes with every kilometer you travel. The behavioral pattern of one language speaking community with the other language speaking community is very interesting. And I enjoy experiencing such things.
I am in a job that brings me a lot of opportunity to meet many people everyday. And every person is different.
I met a person who knows more than 7 regional languages. He worked in 7 states of India and as a sovainer had bought the language of that state.
I know a South Indian person who knows better Hindi than any born and brought up Hindi speaking person.
But most importantly, last month I meet a person who is having different and funny view about language. I had attended a workshop in my company. There company employees from different parts of India came. People from different parts of the country, people belonging to different community, different language speaking people and people of different ethnic groups with their own tradition and distinguishingly different life style. There one man was Mr. K. Ganesh. He was a Tamil guy. Tamil language is one of the oldest languages of India. The ancestral scripts claims it to be the oldest language, older than Sanskrit. And this brings a proud feeling to a common Tamil person. They normally disapprove Hindi to be National Language. In more panoptic sense, they hate Hindi Speaking people. This is because of the reason that they are having a feeling that it is Hindi because of which Tamil have not got the recognition that it deserves.
So it was Mr. Ganesh of that workshop. A very old employee of our company. He was one of the most curious person of that entire batch. He knew only two languages, English and Tamil. He not at all know Hindi. Wait, rather he learnt 20 words of Hindi. And he is proud of it. Our favorite pastime in the evening was to teach him few more words of Hindi and let him repeat all the words he learnt. This was creating a very funny situation when he was enunciating some words of Hindi in very funny way. But he keep trying and curious of learning more words.
His view about language was that he wanted to teach Tamil to everyone in the company and himself would learn finer Hindi. And then when everyone starts speaking Tamil, he would insist on communicating in Hindi rather than Tamil. Funny. What was there in his mind while saying so, I really don't know neither I want to analyze. But his view was so very entertaining for us. While saying that he want to teach Tamil to every employee of the company, he was having a great respect to his mother tongue. And when he wishes to learn finer Hindi, he was showing equally a great respect to the National Language.
I think people like Ganesh can play a vital role in bridging the gap between the languages of our country. A good learning for me about language.
Thanks Ganesh!
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