हमारी हिन्दी

काफि दिनो से सोच रहा था कि हिन्दी पर कुछ लिखू पर हालात ये है कि ये ऐक पन्कति लिखने मे दो दिन लग गय है । पहले तो ऐक सोफटवेयर ढून्ढा फिर लिखना शुरु किया है । बस सीख रहा हू । पूरी कहानी के लिये अंगरेजि का सहारा लेता हू । हां पर कुछ दिनों मे जरूर हिन्दी मे पूरा लिखून्गा ।

What's the difference when you reach an airline counter in India and talk to the lady sitting there in pure Hindi and when you talk to her in fluent English? India has its own set of languages and anyone not from India would guess that we would get better response when speaking in Hindi. But perhaps the answer is totally opposite. You get to be treated with much more attention and care if you speak in english and what's better if you do it with an american accent.

Hindi is becoming the second sanskrit which is almost dead and totally dead for most part of India. I cannot count myself out of the people who have made this happen and I have also demonstrated by just not being able to type in hindi. Not because the keyboard is new but also because I have lost that fluency in hindi that I now have in English.

Recently I visited my grand parents place and read a few hindi papers. Its a fact that an English daily pays well and so draws those who can write good. So the one who has good writing skills prefers to have them in English. Hindi papers are just filled with gossip and casual writing about things.

I think its high time people do notice that Hindi was our language and encourage its use by reading a hindi daily and at the very least honour a person who speaks in it.

With hopes for hindi.

-apurv