Unity in Diversity

India is a secular,democratic union of states with many religions,languages and cultures.Everyone of us knows this but are we doing enough to preserve this diversity?

To state the facts,

There is no single National language in India.People within and outside India have believed that Hindi is India's National language,thanks to the  media and educational system which has shown it that way.

There are 22 National languages in India as defined in the constitution and all the languages are treated equally.

Now,how does this misconception "Hindi is our National language" affect us?

              Apart from the government imposing Hindi across the country by various means(even allocating Rs.360 million every year to spread its use),now general public(Indians) has come to equate Indian nationality with the knowledge of Hindi.A person who does not know Hindi or who does not want Hindi to replace his mother language is considered less Indian and anti National.

             People moving across states expect everyone to deal with them in Hindi and never make an attempt to learn the local language even if they decide to settle down in that place.Just imagine this happening for a generation  and we are left with only Hindi as the language in India(one of the languages AKa-Bo spoken in Andaman Islands is already extinct as of 2010)

             If there is a proposal asking people to learn the local language of a state - why is there opposition to this?

            Should the locals learn a new language to deal with the migrants or is it the other way?

Will the Britons learn Gujarati because many Gujaratis have moved there? And Canadians learn Punjabi because there are many Punjabis?

The biggest arguement the people  who support One Nation,one Language(hindi) theory make is that it makes it easy as a country if there is one single language.

Let me give you an analogy to this.

There are many religions being followed in India - Hinduism,Jainism,Sikhism,Christianity and Islam.

Just because Hindus are more in number, Should the government propogate that everyone else convert to Hindusim?

So that there would be no problems between people of different religions? Sounds dumb correct?

Then why should one language be given a special consideration than others?

End of the day,we should remember that India is a union of states speaking different languages and following different cultures.

Let us preserve this diversity which has a history of 1000's of years.

Opposition to Hindi Imposition is not to be taken as a hatred toward Hindi as a language or the Hindi speaking people.

It is more a concern for the regional languages and Kannada for me.

We were,and will be united as a country with all our diversity.

we do not need one language,one religion to be united.

Conflict of Interest

A conflict of interest (COI) occurs when an individual or organization is involved in multiple interests, one of which could possibly corrupt the motivation for an act in the other.
This is what we see happening in the administrative,political,educational,media space in India.
             When majority of the educational institutions are owned by the politicans in power,how can we hope for tuition fees coming down,fair admission policies,transparent education system - The people running these are Businessmen first and then public servants and that is when it leads to a corrupt system.
             How could we explain the scams happening in corporate circles like 2G license scam or others.The politicans own stakes in many of the companies or control them through indirect means or have got favours in the form of election funds etc.
Take the case of Karnataka.The illegal mining industry has contributed to the deterioration of nature in the western Ghats and the parts of Bellary district.These mining barons control the government and you can imagine if at all this government will ever act to protect the environment around us,the drinking water in Bellary,the roads of Western Ghats, and the health effects people from these areas suffer from.
When the distinction between business and governance is not clear,it is difficult to see a transparent government which acts to protect the interests of the people and our country.
The biggest disappointment is how the Media,the newspapers and news channels function - failing to highlight constantly the ill effects of these actions(They can run hours of programming to telecast a murder or domestic violence case,but not anything against politicians.)
Sample this - Suvarna News channel owned by a politican backed by BJP,Kasturi channel by HDK,Janashri from Reddy Bros and plans of more channels to be started by politicians - we already know why they need their own channels.
If we have "Conflict of Interest" in media,we would never see a unbiased news coverage of whats going on around us and blind us from all the above issues which arise from "Conflict of Interest".

What if ?

The central govt spends 30+ crores every year to spread the usage of Hindi across India.

And now karnataka's 'kannada mattu samskruti ilaakhe' recently sponsored a sanskrit book fair in Bengaluru apart from announcing to establish a sanskrit university in Karnataka.

What these governments,atleast the Karnataka government fails to see is the need to save and promote the languages indigenious to Karnataka like Kannada,Tulu,kodava etc.
Instead money and resources are spent on introducing languages which do not have any connection with the people except in textbooks.

Do we have a university for studying the Tulu and Kodava languages?
Can the people of Mangalore and Kodagu learn these languages in school?
What steps have been taken to popularise and spread these languages?(atleast we have not seen any)

Simply put,has the govt done its part to save own languages before help spreading the other languages.

What if Hindi is widely spoken - It need not be imposed on the entire nation.
What if Sanskrit was supposedly spoken by gods - First concentrate on languages being spoken now.

For the Nth time

For the Nth time,
Hindi is not India's National language.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Theres-no-national-language-in-India-Gujarat-High-Court/articleshow/5496231.cms
People in the government and all the media people need to stop telling this lie.

India has 22 National languages including Kannada,Telugu,Malayalam,Tamil etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India


Sanskrit is not the mother of all languages of India.
Sanskrit is an aryan language.
Kannada,Tamil,Malayalam,Tulu,Telugu are all dravidian languages and are not dervied from sanskrit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_languages

Kannadaaudio.com

PS: I am against piracy in any form and have no affiliation to Kannadaaudio.com in any form.

The site kannadaaudio.com which hosted different forms of kannada songs like folk,devotional and movie songs has removed the collection of movie songs from its database.Thanks to the movie SUPER by Upendra.

SUPER movie songs were also available in the site as any other new movie and the producers felt this was another form of piracy and shut down the site for a few days.
The site was back online but without any movie songs altogether.

Kannadaaudio.com was just a online streaming of songs and not a free download site.
Consider the free publicity and hype this website was providing for all the newly releasing movies.

How will the people get information about new movie songs being released if these kind of sites are shutdown?
How will the producers plan to reach the overseas kannadigas?

The movie industry needs to get serious in marketing and get some lessons to use the Internet to their advantage.