Check this out too
Hindi must get official language status at UN, Rajnath says - The Times of India
Singh said Hindi had united the country during the freedom struggle, but unfortunately it couldn't become the "Rashtriya bhasha" (national language). It only became "Raj bhasha" (language of governance).
Unfortunately, post-independence, our leadership couldn't make Hindi the language of India possibly due to regional politics and political gains, he maintained.
Hindi acts as the common link language, which binds the people from Kashmir in the north to Kanyakumari in the south, Singh said.
Given the wide use of Hindi, it is a misconception that English was the 'sampark bhasha' (link language) of India, the home minister noted.
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Look at this marvellous nonsense he has muttered
Waah waah. half the country doesn't speak proper shuddh Hindi & more than half doesn't know how to read it & he happily says that from Kashmir to Kanyakumari everybody speaks Hindi & Hindi united us...
What nonsense, it was a sense of patriotism, love for our nation & nationalism which united us, not Hindi.
We couldn't make Hindi the national language because of regional politics.....
Truth:- They tried to force Hindi upon the Rest of the Nation in the past as
our rashtra bhasha/sole official language & South India (Especially TN) refused to accept it! Which is why Hindi is not our national Language..
"It is claimed that Hindi should be the common language because it is spoken by the majority. Why should we then claim the tiger as our national animal instead of the rat which is so much more numerous? Or the peacock as our national bird when the crow is ubiquitous?"
CN Annadurai
Many don't know this.
But after independence BR AMbedkar wanted to make Sanskrit the national language of India. But this proposal was stopped?? Guess who stopped it
The problem with some RSS/BJP guys like that BJP-TN Minister & rajnath singh is they believe India must have one language & that language must be Hindi..
Do Look at these links & answers
Why do Hindi-speakers in Bangalore expect the locals to speak in Hindi instead of learning Kannada? - Quora
Why Bangalore is giving non-Kannada speaking people a hard time
Look at this SOB who was from North India, lived in bengaluru &
My question- when will these heroes ask people like the above to start learning South Indian Languages & North-East Indian languages & respect their cultures for greater unity??
& more importantly,,
why don;t they spend their time doing something productive for the nation instead of giving moral lectures?
I will say this one more time:-
The South Indians, in general, cannot thank the Tamilians enough; it is because of them that we have English still as an official language of the Union & not Hindi as the sole national language
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@mooppan your views please??
& let me say that I want to post a lot,lot more on this issue, but I don't wish to cause controversy around this stuff & especially not in the wrong place. I will not reply to any abuses/questions/requests/counter-points from other posters.
PERIOD
. I remember they even attacked an Kannada language FM radio station once for airing a Hindi song. Some of the locals even have problem with English as they do not put English sign boards on their buses. Am i supposed to learn all the local languages before going to each state just to travel there ? forget Hindi i used to get stupid looks when i am talking in English in Bangalore. I am not blaming all locals here only certain people. Problem is on both sides lets not always point fingers at "North Indians".
