Whether you dump Urdu or not is not our concern. I am just saying that I dont think it is likely to happen.
You just showed an inordinate concern at our children learning Mandarin. What is likely to happen cannot be predicted on your preferences.
Nobody had predicted in 1900 that just 47 years later India would be carved into three pieces. Neither Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal ( your famous "Lal, Bal, Pal" ) could have imagined this would have happened .
Again, we Indians claim the cultural heritage of the entire subcontinent. We have always been sure of who we are.
Interesting. So you claim the cultural heritage of the Konyak Nagas, the Tamil Irula snake catchers, the Kerala Kathakkali dancers, the pandas of Varanasi, the Rajasthani Kalbelias , the Robindro Shongeet choirs of West Bengal , along with our culture from Pakistan, like the Kalash, the Swatis, and the Mengals and Marris from Baluchistan ?
What is the cultural connection between a Hunza dancer and a Mohini Attam dancer from Kerala?
Whats the connection between the two ?
You are constantly trying to define who you are since 1947. First you claimed that you are the custodians of Muslims of the subcontinent. After 1971, you changed tack and said that you are from the clan of Islamic invaders. Then some of you say that you are from Indus Valley Civilization. May you find closure as a West-Asian nation if that is what you wish for.
You got it wrong. The resolution for Pakistan in 1940 called for at least two (or by implication more) sovereign independent Muslim majority states to be carved out of India as homelands for Muslims so that they do not have to live as minorities in a united India. Search and read the text of the resolution on line or will paste it here for you. Pre-1971 . The cultural and linguistic differences between different Muslim majority regions of pre-partition India was recognized but not implemented. Pakistan as it was immediately after 1947 and up to 1971, against the spirit of the Pakistan resolution and was an artificial aberration. A Civil War was not inevitable, and a separation that was proposed, could have been arranged without bloodshed. Thanks in part due to India's interest the situation went otherwise.
Post 1971 both the Muslim majority regions became two sovereign independent nations as intended. The question of religious identity resolved it was now up to both nations to chart their cultural identity. Speaking only for ourselves ( Pakistan as of today) we have a distinct cultural identity not connected with India. We see no connection with the Chola kingdoms or the Marathas. So we haven't changed tack, but instead actually returned to the original purpose behind the dismemberment of India.
I am not blackmailing you. You are getting blackmailed because your heart is in the subcontinent but your mind wants you to become Turkish or Iranian.
Yes, you are blackmailing. You are emphasizing the only connection left, which is linguistic affinity, which as I pointed out to you in the case of Russia can change. Yes, even though not our mother tongue we developed a deep affection for Urdu or simple Hindustani. This unfortunately is exploited big time by you, our enemy, searing our hearts with the most potent psychological weapon at your disposal.
There has come a time to change and sacrifice that which we love for the survival and transformation of our nation.
Our hearts are changing to our geographical roots in the Indus and beyond, to the Ghurid Empire, and Khorasan , much before the adventurers from this land made it to the banks of the Jamuna.
The Jamuna or Ganga means nothing to us now and even the line below is meaningless now:
Aye aberood e Ganga woh din hai yaad tujh ko, utara teray kinare jab karewan hamara.
To understand what that means look at this
link for the English translation. Read the whole page please, particularly the last lines.
Forget us and we will forget you. We want to live as we have lived for 5000 years. A nuclear fireball is not our future.
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