163. It is not Hindi but creating a rebellion on Hindi that is important to the Hindu party of India. P S Remesh Chandran

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It is not Hindi but creating a rebellion on Hindi that is important to the Hindu party of India

P. S. Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum
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1. Trying to sell single-language Hindi sentimentality to multi-language people.

For a very long time, there have been no conflicts, rebellions or riots in India in the name of languages. Some people cannot tolerate such periods of rest and peace and let people go on inert like this for long. They want attacks, blood and murder to survive, especially those who do not ideologies in life. They want riots to be made, to distract people’s attention from what they do in politics, government and religion in their own country and in foreign countries. What better way for the Hindu party BJP of India than to engineer a rebellion by imposing the single language Hindi on a multiple-language people? Failed because of the vigilance of the people of India in their many attempts to create rebellions using the beef and several other similar issues recently, they are in urgent need of a rebellion to continue in power as a political entity. Now they are trying to sell the language sentimentality of a few northern states to other states and find a way to move the army in.

2. An early attempt to impose Hindi resulted in people’s changing the historical name of Madras State to Tamil Nadu.

Remember the rebellion when the Nehru government in the independent India tried to impose Hindi in Tamil Nadu which was the Madras State then. It was the vehemence and furor resulted from this attempt to impose Hindi that these Tamilian people changed the name of their state from Madras to Tamilnadu to underline their love for their language. It was a warning against ever trying to do this again. Many lives were lost in that rebellion and many shops and offices burnt. Many people took their lives also, saying they will die before their language was taken from them which was their mother. The people who tried to exploit people’s sentimentality for mother language for political gains were true enemies of the state and ought to have been hanged or expelled from the country then, if any heathen countries were willing to accept them. Anyway, the attempt to impose Hindi was withdrawn by the central government then.

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3. Displacing English is to limit the opportunities in the world to an elite few.

Those who want to learn Hindi and Sanskrit in Tamilnadu are free to learn and teach it there. There is no ban. No one interrupts. There are no restrictions. But they won’t allow any coercion for any language at any cost. Mother tongue is a very sensitive issue and anyone who tries to displace it is considered as people’s enemy there as it is in all non-Hindi speaking states in India. Almost everyone knows English in India and anyone who is not willing to learn it does so at his own risk. Such people are found only in the heart of India comprising on a few Hindi-speaking states known generally as the Hindi belt. People in the other states are not willing to take this risk. And, anyone wishing to use it as a national and international communicating language can continue to do so if the world will speak to them in Hindi. One cannot compel the world: there are other languages. In this age of world travels, intermingling and communications, no one can be allowed to displace English and impose Hindi or Sanskrit. It is depriving a very big nation- actually the second largest in population in the world- of the vast opportunities in education and employment the world provides and limiting those privileges to a supposedly elite few.

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4. Imposing Hindi aimed at diverting people’s attention from foolish mammoth projects created for vain media attention.

I assume you are supposing the opposition to imposing of Hindi on all states by a central government is expected only after a central government does that but not before, in anticipation of what one government would do as gauged from a series of its previous acts. In fact I was noting the act of imposing Hindi by a previous government, its impacts and why that governmental move had to be stopped. You are now asking why and how I came to know that the central government is going to take steps to impose Hindi on all non-Hindi-speaking states. For one thing, as you are writing this in a Face Book Group in the social media, so many other people are writing and posting in so many other Face Book Groups in the social media, especially those particularly and notably associated with the party I mentioned, about why the central government is not imposing Hindi AND Sanskrit, i.e., in groups functioning in non-Hindi languages. Total presence of such posts in those languages and total absence of such posts in Hindi language groups is meaningful in that these post creators want a rebellion against Hindi to be created in non-Hindi speaking languages to divert people’s attention from spending national revenue foolishly on mammoth projects of vain media attention-building like building the world’s highest statues and going to the moon. Do you understand or pretend not to understand?

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5. BJP had been formulating a Hindi-imposing education bill by government and also campaigning for Hindi and Sanskrit in social media for long.

A draft new education policy bill will take not a few days to prepare but months and years. The draft New Education Policy (NEP) Bill by the Government of the BJP did propose Hindi as a compulsory language in schools and universities and this party and its beneficiaries and cronies had been deeply immersed for months and years in formulating, preparing and proposing this bill. During the same period, their party-men and supporters were campaigning in social media for the imposition of Hindi and Sanskrit- a dual move. They were going forward with full steam till the first week of June 2019. Then contents of the proposed bill came out and Tamilnadu politicians raised their opposition first. So, from June 3rd and 4th, BJP began to publicize that they have no intention of imposing Hindi. For everyone’s information- they used the very word ‘imposition’.

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6. Had the central government not compulsorily supported Hindi, the people of India would have been fluent in English now.

There is a strange fact associated with the absence or presence of Hindi in a region in India. In fact how many states speak Hindi and how many states speak other languages? Had the central government in the past not initiated movements to support, promote and spread Hindi, where would have Hindi stood now? Ninety percent of the people in the present Hindi belt would have been speaking fluent English now and of course freed of caste and communal orientation. The highest literacy states would have been in the present Hindi belt. Where Hindi is absent, caste and communal orientation is less. Where Hindi is omnipresent, caste and communal domination is present. That is why Kerala eventually became the state of highest literacy in India and Tamilnadu became the state with the highest standard in English in India. The North Eastern Frontier States also are fairly well-versed in English. Where Hindi hesitated to come, caste and communal dominance vanished and literacy and English came.

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7. Loving a language is not being blind to its shortcomings or to the advantages of other languages.

Indeed Hindi is much broader and widespread than Malayalam or Tamil but because of their embracing the indescribably broader and widespread English when compared to Hindi, the Keralites and Tamilians did not feel any shortage or deficiency at all in knowing not Hindi. They spared that time advantageously to learn English. In fact, they turned their loath of Hindi into the love of English. As a result, Tamilnadu is now one of the states in India with the highest literacy and fluency in English. There is no romanticism or sensationalism in telling them that because they do not know or learn Hindi they are not patriots. If you tell them that, they will say that it is to take away literacy and English from them and bring back caste and communalism as is now in the Hindi states region that a few traitors are trying to impose Hindi on them, which is true anyway. Still, because of these states’ high literacy and their bigger publishing industry almost all fine Hindi books get translated into their languages and reach them. Remember that Hindi has been in existence for centuries but it was only after English language came and spread that India’s freedom struggle began to form in full. When we love a language, we shall not be blind to its shortcomings or handicaps, or to the advantages of other languages. Languages can be used to liberate people or to plunge them to darkness.

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8. Keeping the dark states dark and making the lighted ones also turn dark.

Political parties that want to draw nourishment for growth from superstition, caste and community orientation, non-education, financial backwardness and religious zealotry find it convenient and useful to concentrate on the Hindi belt of states where all these negative (negative as viewed by progressive-minded people) nutrients or traits are in plenty or rampant. BJP is the finest example for doing this and they have been doing nothing else except this for decades. They collect the majority of their Parliament Members and Assembly Members from these states. But there are only nine states in India comprising the Hindi Heartland or the Hindi Belt where majority of the people speak Hindi and it is the official language: Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. Certainly the BJP cannot limit themselves to these nine states for ever if they want to rule India for a long time. If they want to spread to the other states, they have to either shed their negative preferences or convert the other states too to negative mindsets. Of course they cannot shed their negative preferences. So, naturally, they turn to the other and the only choice left to them- imposing Hindi officially on the non-Hindi-speaking people of India in the other states of Kerala, Tamilnadu, Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura, Assam and Bengal, and deprive them of light and free thought like those people in the heart of India and turn them all too to darkness, before the Hindi-speaking states inevitably follow the non-Hindi-speaking states to light.

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9. BJP leaders’ attempt in Hindi is to become national heroes where they failed miserably in becoming international heroes.

So, it is not Hindi but creating the rebellion against Hindi that is important and vital for BJP. BJP is a restless criminal-minded leviathan, determined to split people by whatever way, rule, and go on with clandestine objectives and agendas. The inability to learn the international language English is not an excuse to spread the national language Hindi. It will spread without anyone’s compulsion if people need it, because it is a beautiful language rich in literature. But BJP shall not use it as a trick to deceive the people of India to take away the benefits of English and their own languages as a way to take away their freedom and liberation and to make them blind communal slaves again. Most people in India who know English also know Hindi, but the most people in India who know Hindi do not know even a word in English. The Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi was fluent in English and Hindi as well as several other languages including Afrikaans. He stole the heart of the world through his truthfulness, sincerity, simplicity and humbleness. The First Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru was fluent in English, Hindi and quite a few European languages and he became a loved one of the world through his knowledge and books. The most renowned President of India Dr. S. Radhakrishan mastered Tamil, English and Hindi and gained the respect of the whole world through his lectures, teachings and scholarly books. What has the BJP leaders to show? So, the BJP leaders’ attempt in Hindi is to become national heroes in the eyes of the illiterate and substandard where they failed miserably in becoming international heroes.

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About the Author P. S. Remesh Chandran:
  

Editor of Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum. Author of several books in English and in Malayalam. And also author of Swan: The Intelligent Picture Book. Born and brought up in the beautiful village of Nanniyode in the Sahya Mountain Valley in Trivandrum, in Kerala. Father British Council trained English teacher and Mother University educated. Matriculation with distinction and Pre Degree Studies in Science with National Merit Scholarship. Discontinued Diploma studies in Electronics and entered politics. Unmarried and single.

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First published on: Published on September 15, 2019