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RE:On Being Indian
by Satya Narayan Dash on Nov 27, 2006 09:00 AM

Kumar:

My Mother Tongue is not Hindi. But, I have no bad feelings towards it and I know the language. My Mother Tongue is not Tamil (and many more languages for that matter), I neither have any bad feeling for them and I know them as well! My point is simple, how can someone who is just 25/27 years old (for that matter even if you are 60 years old), question a civilization which is 2,000+ years old!! (which this pseudo intellectual Rajeev is doing) Never ever one can do that. Every language/culture in India is unique and have been evolved over a period on which we are just a small part.


Now coming back to your original question, it seems it is very hard for you to accept it that way. You problem is not accepting Hindi or claiming "Hey! I am also part of India", but your problem is accepting your culture proudly. Only then you can accept other culture proudly.

Hindi is a language understood and spoken by most part of India. No other Indian language can claim to have that reach. You can go to most of India (South India included) and still communicate with that. Is not it?

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