Tamilian spirit
Posted by Joe on September 25, 2009
I can make a fairly simple guess of what Tamilians are famous for outside Tamil Nadu. That is mainly for the opposition of Hindi language. People normally relate Tamilians to Hindi ignorant.
True till now, learning Hindi has not been made compulsory in Tamil Nadu and if you go to Chennai, not even a single person will be talking to you in Hindi unlike Kolkata or Mumbai or even Bangalore.
Still people in Tamil Nadu do learn Hindi, even though this population count for a very small number.
I am basically a pro-hindi learning person. I totally accept the fact that as Hindi has been made as our national language, it has to be made compulsory for every one to learn. But today, an article in the news paper totally made me mad.
That is about some DMK ministers not given the permission to answer a question in Tamil in the Parliament. True, the ministers like Azhagiri does not deserve to be members in Indian parliament. But when the prime minister of our country can address UN in hindi, why can’t a minister from Tamil Nadu can’t address the Parliament in Tamil? Keeping a translator will not be such a hard thing in the Parliament. We can’t say that a person can’t serve the nation as he does not know a language. More over Tamil is also an official language of India.
So seriously translators should be kept for all the official languages at least in the parliament. This should make the Tamilians feel that they are also given the respect which is due to them in this beautiful country.
inxxxx said
Yes..in the Indian parliament..he can..as Tamil is also an official language..But on the broader prespective…a common language would help….lets not make this important as
proceedings in the houses are costly and ..use a lot of taxpayer’s money..its rather the
issues and not the language that should occupy importance..and maybe this can be made
an issue and discussed in the table..
Joe said
I think the thing which is more important than conversing is identity. Every one should learn Hindi as Hindi is our National language. Period. Definitely Hindi will give us identity as Indians as German gave identity to Germans.
Vimal said
I am from Tamil Nadu..But, I like Hindi to be made as at least the compulsory second language for all Indians in the country..Because communication plays a big role in a country’s development. So, for the development, we need a common language to communicate easily with at least Indians.Now,the only possibility is Hindi since it is spoken widely in India. So, why not it be made as a secondary compulsory language for all the states in India, especially south??