Friday, December 28, 2007

No beta it is COW!!!

A boy (age 3-4 years old) with his mother at juice centre of MG road.

Boy: mom vo dekho ek guy ( guy = cow in hindi)
Mother: no beta, it is not like this, you should say, it is a cow.

Though she was correct, and she is only trying to teach her child but this incident took away my thoughts for a moment.
Is it mandatory to cram learning English as our 1st language???
What about 18 different Indian languages???
Ok English is universal language but is it really necessary to give higher priority to it??? And that’s to in such an early age.
This English language craze is on its real boom today. No one wants to admit their wards in any Hindi medium school (till they have no other option left because of money).
Missionary schools are mushrooming up here and there. Private schools too started following such things.
I am not at all against of learning English language but they way parents have started taking it is seriously serious.
Whatever is the place, wherever is the location English is coming ahead leaving local languages far apart.
May be this BPO boom or IT industry is giving this a brighter platform but leaving own mother tongue is not a solution. It is only a problem.

Today it is like a shame if you do a grammar mistake in English but if when you do it in Hindi or other languages it is fun.

Speak Sudh Hindi in front of anyone, it can annoy him/her but no problem with English.

This guy(cow) incident is just an example, even in our houses it is a day to day activity to teach our wards such words , and do hell with other languages.
Already so many tribal languages have vanished from this world, Sanskrit users are really in numbers, urdu is no where in scene (leaving Pakistanis who are making a fun of this language , their speaking language is Punjabi and official language is urdu), and so many other languages.

Maa is becoming mom day by day; pita ji is getting converted into dad.

We can’t blame to parents directly but they can teach their wards their own culture at least at home.
We don’t need a USA or UK support to learn our own culture, it is becoming a practice of Indians to follow things happened in west. We do yog because Americans are doing it. Holy shit.

All I can say is we are developing our country India; we are not at all making any other state of USA here.
It is better to develop country by its own culture not by following any XYZ country, because they have their own standard of livings.

M.A.D
i.e.

Mr. Ashish Dixit

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