I am surprised to see a Tamilan writing that he couldn't put things in the right perspective when it comes to our aversion towards Hindi. It has more to do with your inability and lack of knowledge and has nothing to do with the anti-Hindi movement in 1960s. When ever you are questioned about your aversion towards Hindi - your first question should be why should there be an attachment? Next is about the respect to our National Language. First you need to make them understand (you also should understand) that HINDI IS NOT NOT NOT our National Language. Hindi and English are just the Official Languages of our Central Government. I am sure 99.99999 percent of North Indians would reply that Hindi is our national language when u ask them what is our national language. Ask them to first read our constitution and then come to us. I have seen some cases where these people would question our patriotism just because we didn%u2019t learn the 'National Language'. In fact it should be us who shld be questioning their patriotism because they haven%u2019t read our constitution. Ask them to give you one good reason to learn Hindi. The same reason would surely hold good for them to learn Tamil or Telgu or Malayalam or Assamese. Linking the Single Language policy and Patriotism has nothing to do with our aversion to Hindi - but has a lot to do with their immaturity. We should feel proud of our ethnic and linguistic diversity.
