MERI HINDI

“Jis bhaasha mein socho, usi bhaasha mein likho!” I believed in it. Main abb bhi is baat ko maanti hoon per aaj se pehle kabhi is per amal nahi kiya. Sochti aaj bhi mein hindi mein hoon, per woh bhaasha abb hindi ki shudhhtha se koso door hai.


Mera bachpan Haryana ke hisar shaher mein guzra, jahaan hindi kaafi had tak Haryanvi se prabhavit rehi. Haalanki mein janm se dakshin bhaartiya hoon,per Punjab, uttar Pradesh, Haryana, rajasthan, himachal yeh sabhi kahin na kahin mujhse jude hain. Mere parivaar mein sabhi aaj bhi hindi mein hi dil ki baat zaahir kerte hain. Per aaj mein sochne per majboor hoon ki kyun, aaj tak kabhi maine hindi mein nahi likha? Niraj, Shaily, Ramdhari singh dinkar, munshi premchand, in sabhi ko maine padhaa per kabhi inko apne favourite books ki category mein nahi daala. Woh kya baat hai jo jane austen, Shakespeare, salman rushdie yaa kisi bhi English bhaasha ke writer ko in sabhi mahaan lekhakon se alag kerti hai? Main maanti hoon ki English ek antar-rashtriya bhasha hai jo hamein seemaon ko bhula ker, aapsi mel jhol mein madat kerti hai. Kaafi NRI yeh maanege ki her kisi ‘asian origin’ ke vyakti ko dekhker , zabaan khud hindi mein baat kerne lagti hai. Chahe woh Pakistani, Bangladeshi yaa nepali hi kyon naa ho. Maine tho kai baar dakshin bhartiyo se bhi puchha hoga, do you know hindi? Shaayad main abb bhi hindi mein hi comfortable hoon.

Aisa nahi hai, ki aaj ke baad mein sirf hindi mein hi likhoongi, per yeh ek sawaal hai apne aap se, ki kyun mein apni pyaari hindi ko bhool jaati hoon. Yeh achha hai ki aap zyaada bhashaon ko jaane; unka prayog karen per jo aapka hai usko naa bhoolen. Agli baar yeh koshish zaroor rahegi ki India jaaker English ko kuch der door ker, apni bhaasha mein baat karoon. Jis bhaasha mein sochoon usi mein baat karoon, Hinglish bhi chalegi!

PS: Please don’t brand me shiv sainik, this is just an emotionally motivated piece.

Who are WE?

I call it generation Z. People whose emotions are governed by the social networking sites. Making the right statements at a right time. I talk about saving the planet, saving energy, human rights, political rights and yes, sometimes wander in the simplicity of an earthy lifestyle. Whatever the matter be; it is just right for a thread to start off.


So have we become ‘stupid googlers’? Checking the wiki and adding our experiences to make a comment or is there a gadget revolution. Notebooks & Laptops, have taken control over the expression of emotions. A childhood memory would once take me into a solitude where I was alone and relived those warm moments. Now I have my friends, family, friends of friends, acquaintances, colleagues, the girl I met once at the party and Ouch! Is that my mom in law?! peeping inside too?

Basically shared information. Since when did we become so generous? Sometime back, I never wanted to have a blog, as I didn’t want to share. But once I tried, am thrilled about it. Have we become subjects to Dr. Darwin? Are we evolved as gen z with better ability to share and bring about change? Are we friendlier beings with an addition of a laptop there? I can easily picture the human evolution diagrams in my science book, stone age, Iron age. The bend of the chimpanzee finally straightening up. Just that this time a shiny gadget replaces the stone tool. Okay! I agree that was exaggerated. But we are exaggerating everything to make a statement on the networking site. How many actually turned off their lights on Earth hour? I know many did, “we didn’t have current for 14 hours that day!”, my excuse for not switching off the genset.

So what did I get from this piece? Another thread of comments to express my thoughts.. oh no, please don’t stop commenting, I enjoy comments. Moreover lets evolve! ;)