Thought for the day
“The promise given was a necessity
of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.”
-
Niccolo
Machiavelli (Italian, 1469-1527)
Word for the day
Epithalamion (n)
A song or poem in honor of a bride & bridegroom.
(Source:
Dictionary.com)
Teaser for the day
Modi should address the nation
and say in unambiguous terms:
(a)
All citizens of India are free to use whatever
Sch-VIII Language they are comfortable with. The government will accept and
honor the communication.
(b)
Our God, Goddess, scriptures, religion, culture,
languages, Tricolor, etc. are supreme and beyond insult by ordinary mortals.
Therefore ordinary people should feel free to write, draw, or narrate whatever they wish about them.
Don’t rush, stitch it tight
The conduct of new government in past couple of weeks has raked
up some completely avoidable controversies. Some of these expose the dichotomy
between ordination and intent of ministers, especially those influenced by
cultural nationalism propagated by RSS; while the other have emanated from the
exigency imposed by the leader himself.
In my view, it is imperative for the new government to take
strong and effective steps to bring back the aberrant socio-economic conditions
to the right path. But it certainly does not mean that everything must be set
correct in conventional “100days” inaugural period itself. I believe, after
suffering for so long the people of this country are resilient enough to
weather another year of hardship.
The “jugaad” mindset therefore needs to be given up in favor of
strong conceptual framework and highest standard of quality. The stitches at
the loose ends should strong enough to last at least two generations if not
more.
I would like to highlight the following instances in particular:
Firstly, the RSS grooming of our home minister has desired to
make Hindi language as medium of promoting national pride. A BJP spokesperson
from UP suggested that Hindi Speaking people are often subjected to derision
and face discrimination at various places.
Without going into the merit of this suggestion I would like to
flag to him that Narendra Modi, Shivraj Singh, Raman Singh, Nitish Kumar,
Akhilesh Yadav and Arvind Kejriwal all are “Hindi Speaking” and certainly not
appear to have faced any derision or discrimination for their linguistic
preference.
Believing that this government really intends to be
comprehensively inclusive, I suggest that it should stay out of my home,
office, school bag and place of worship at the least. It has no business
guiding me what and how to communicate, work, study or worship so long I am not
violating the constitution or any other law of the land.
If the government is seriously interested in promoting equality,
quality and therefore efficiency of Indian populace, it should encourage all
citizens to communicate with the government in the language they feel most
comfortable with. It should be duty of the government to equip all its offices,
courts and police stations with adequate linguistic skills for this purpose.
Any visitor to Mumbai,
Patna and Lucknow would know the rules relating to promotion of language have
led to degeneration of local language. If you have not noticed, see the
following:……………………to continue tomorrow
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