Hindi

Aazhi Senthil Nathan wrote:

Hindi, that is Rashtra Bhasha Hindi is the Sanskritized version of Khariboli , a dialect of Hindustani, spoken in and around of Delhi and Western UP. Awathi and Braj Bhasha were also assimilated into this version of Hindi. The same version, without Sankrit and with Arabic-Persian words, is called Urdu. Both are the products of Mughal, British and now the "Hindian" governments ruling from New Delhi.

In Bihar, Eastern UP, Rajastan, Haryana, Himachal, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkand, people speak 30+ different languages and hundreds of dialects and almost each one of them is older than Hindi. (Frankly, these are the languages suffered the Hindi imperialism than Tamil!!!)

But the standard Hindi is now a link language across the north and central India. But a link language is just a link language. It can't, won't or shouldn't replace the original languages of the people. You can see hundreds of instances of erroneous and planned inclusion of native language speakers as Hindi speakers during the census. In Hariyana, lakhs of Hindu Punjabis are listed as Hindi speakers and Sikh Punjabis as Punjabi Speakers. (The same thing happened in Pakistan, where Urdu spoken by just 7 percent of the population has been imposed on 40 pc of Punjabis and the rest. It was the Urdu impostion of West Pakistan on East Pakistan paved the way for independent Bangladesh.)

The Hindwallas are simply imperialistic in their attitude.

Ram Charit Manas, by Tulsidass, was written in Awadhi, but we learn in the text books that it was written in Hindi. When Tulsidass wrote it in 16th century, there was no language called Hindi.. Vidyapadhi was a great Maithil poet of classical age and the government says he is an Hindi poet. And when Vidyapathi wrote his poems there was no Hindi at all.

Chhatisgarh and Khariboli are extremely distinct and calling them as dialects of Hindi is a cruel Joke.

The people like Bhojpuri or Rajastani speakers were cheated, but now they say, "enough is enpugh".

Actually nobody is against Hindi as a language and denies it's role of lnk language in northern/central India. What they protest is making Hindi "their" mother tongue, when they themselves have their "own" mothers much before Hindi was born.

Hindi can be 'aunty' language, but would never be a mother language for them.

So, this is the 'status' of Hindi in the North. What to say about it's status in the East, West or South? I will leave it to your guess.

I like Hindi just as I do with any other language. I like Bollywood movies and songs. I am amazed with Urdu poems and Galiph's ghazals in Urdu. I like Vidyapathi and Jeyadeva. I love Premchand too. But not at the cost of my language. This is the awakening now spreading across the country.