Raj (not Makepeace) Thackeray jumps on banwagon
My joined-at-the-lip columnist, Jug Suraiya, wrote on Tamil Nadu CM Stalin’s battle towards infiltrating Hindification. Now Maharashtra’s desperately-wannabe-CM, Raj Thackeray, has joined Word War too, resulting in All Unquiet on the Western Front as properly. With all weapons blazing, Raj T desires to implement the usage of Marathi as a substitute of not simply Hindi, but additionally English. Bank of Maharashtra employees even needed to ask for cover towards his stormtroopers.
This now-toothless tiger’s newest rampage is of a chunk together with his aggressively cultivated picture as final remaining champion of the unique Shiv Sena raison d’être: ‘tod-phod party’. But Balasaheb’s hotheaded nephew tod-phodoed the get together itself, forming breakaway MNS in 2006, after uncle anointed his personal (milder) son Uddhav successor. Now each cousins are desperately looking for relevance, which has led to this week’s discuss of rapprochement. If that truly occurs, it will likely be fairly a Tamasha for Marathi and ‘Marathi Manoos’.
But there are not any ‘ifs’ about forcible Hindi jaw-jaw resulting in war-war. From South to East, the battle has been joined towards this covert neo-colonialism by Hindi-speaking imperialists. ‘Impose and rule’ is being seen as their technique. Seize reins by way of Trojan Horse of ‘logical’ three-language system, their tactic.
Paranoia? Really?! There’s no such factor as surrogate mom tongue. Those not born to Hindi will undergo rising incapacity nationally. Globally too because of parallel reducing of English. Language is so emotive a tie that it unknotted Pakistan in 1971. Why, within the linguistic reorganisation of 1956, our personal outdated state boundaries got here to naught.
Let non-BJP states reject a double engine, in faculties as in sarkar. Fine. But if, subsequent, every desires to drive solely its personal observe, cross-border communication will get completely derailed. Already in alienating tower blocks, neighbours of various stripes don’t communicate to 1 one other. Imagine if folks from totally different states can’t communicate to 1 one other. We’d find yourself like that verse about Boston ‘Land of the bean and the cod/Where the Lowells talk (only) to the Cabots/And the Cabots talk only to God.’
The risk ought to go away you speechless.
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Alec Smart mentioned: “Paradise lost. ‘Normalcy’ gunned down. Who will Rest in Peace?”
Disclaimer
This article is meant to carry a smile to your face. Any connection to occasions and characters in actual life is coincidental.
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