I have not written too many posts on this blog, but whatever
I have written mostly are in Hindi language. Recently I got a feedback from few
of my friends who told me that they feel it difficult to read Hindi/देवनागरी Scripts but
they can speak and understand Hindi very well. It was not surprising for me
because they were amongst the people whose throughout education carried out in
English language, and they had an “Only English” atmosphere during their
upbringing.
Today we have a large chunk of people who can speak and
understand Hindi but they find it hard to read if anything is written in Hindi
or in Devnagari script. Reading English novel is also a kind of fashion for
today’s generation; I have seen many parents who talk to their children only in
English and scold them if they utter a word in native language.
I don’t have any personal enmity with English Language;
after all English language plays a big role to earn my bread and butter.
Pheww …. Now philosophy is enough, I come to the point why I
do not write much in English? Answer is very simple; I do not know how to write
in English. I feel myself helpless when it comes to express feelings. For example if you want to abuse some one
then will you use “F” word or use our treasure of words of Hindi? First question,
why do we abuse someone, Kyonki gaali bakne ke siwa uska kuchh ukhaad nahi
sakte, right? so to get best feel we always use Hindi swear words. Here my
stress is on feelings and not on swear words, so do not be misguided I am
talking about feelings only. When you meet your best friend after a long time
will you talk to him like “hey dude, where you were for long? Whats up , uhhh?
…. No you will not, if you are a real Indian, then you will say “ oye kameene,
kahan tha yaar tu, gaayab hi ho gaya
ssale”. Here have you noticed the FEEL?
Okay, let’s talk some romantic, here I can understand that
those 3 English words are magical and can work, and you don’t need to use a
single Hindi word for that, but if you love someone, then instead of saying “I
love you”, say it in Hindi “mein tumse bahut pyar karta/karti hoon” and say it
with a passionate eye contact, believe me not only you will get the feel but
your partner will reciprocate it too.
So again I come to the point, why we can not read Hindi
scripts if we can speak, understand and feel in Hindi?
With this post I would like to appeal all readers that
Please read and give some time to Hindi as well, Hindi should not be taught in
History subject.
नोट : यह पोस्ट हिंदी के प्रसार के लिए विशेष रूप से अंग्रेजी में लिखी गयी है , इस विरोधाबास के लिए क्षमा ॥
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