Originally Posted by
Believer
Namaste,
When a person is in the EIBF (Emotion Induced Brain Freeze) mode, all common sense goes out the door.
First of all, Hindi is not a mish-mash of 'things'. Hindustani, the street version of Hindi is a mish-mash. So, let us use the correct terminology.
Secondly, for unity, commonality has to be found and established as the rule. For language, that commonality is Hindi. Granted that there are other ancient and more respectable languages like Tamil and Sanskrit and Bengali and.... But you can't re-educate the entire population with a new language. It is just not practical. Every time I hear some well educated, smart people recommending Sanskrit as the national language, I have to search their heads. And the answer is always - if it can't be my native tongue, then I will not vote for Hindi either, so we will just pull this dream out of the air and propose Sanskrit. Guys, why don't you face the fact that Hindi, by virtue of it being the most spoken language, is the only choice. Having reservations about Hindi, or having outright hatred towards it, is couched in glowing terms as love for Sanskrit, and out pops the mantra, 'Sanskrit should be national language'. If we dismiss this pipe dream and look at the reality, there is no alternative to Hindi to unite the country. Of course, Tamil dalits would keep showing their hatred towards it, and the Tamil brahmins would oppose it because of their "love" for Tamil. It is okay to have love for ones native tongue. But that should not become hatred for everything else. Anti Hindi-ism is the only thing that brings together, the otherwise adversaries, that the Tamil brahmins and the Tamil dalits are.
Why can't educated people do some soul searching?
Why can't the smart people use common sense and realize what is practical, rather than suggesting some outlandish, non-implementable non-sense?
Why is this hatred against Hindi couched in flowery accolades for Sanskrit?
Why do we tend to think with our brains frozen?
How in the world are you going to teach Sanskrit to one billion plus people, and who would pay for that? Does economics ever enter your heads?
Are the Tamil dalits going to roll over and play dead when Sanskrit is imposed on them?
I could care less if India has a national language or not; or if it does which one is given that status, but for god's sake, shed your hatred and be practical.
Pranam.
PS This is all off-topic, as the thread was for Sanskrit/Tamil antiquity. My apologies.
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