Call her by any name, Jayalalitha ( I thought she was an Iyengar from Srirangam, Tamil Nadu whose family migrated to Mandya Karnataka) and a host of non-Tamils have done much better to champion the cause of Tamil, one of the world's oldest languages. This despite the state suffering from a 'chauvinist'tag! I can state with a fair degree of affirmation that Tamils have been the best learners of any new system/ communication channel ( be it a spoken language or a software language)in the modern era of India and earlier.
The problem is that we have a collection of similar talents in all the four southern states of India and as long as we keep fighting who is better amongst we four, the cow-belt wallah with his condemned state of life will continue to dominate the Indian landscape.
The rise of software and IT in the southern part of the country has had a reverse exodus but still, call it the need of the hour or competitive spirit, the most frenetic race to occupy the top slot is happening in the south rather than at a pan-Indian level. So once again the job seeking North Indian professional succeeds!! So the Hindi colonoliasm survives intact!!
I know I am sounding clannish but if I am liberal if I learn Hindi and speak it as well as the Hindiwallah, I would prefer to be labelled clannish.
Come on Rediff readers, let us have a full-fledged battle if u wish
