Amit, Your views are correct.I hope other people understand that. Its very rare to find people like you appreciating with such frankness. Anyways,to expand your view further,the whole funda is that kannada people are not up in arms against people speaking other languages.History is proof to that. Nobody's asking a non-kannada speaking person to stop speaking his/her native language completely and to compulsory learn/talk kannada. I repeat,nobody's asking you THIS. user "uttar pradesh" remarked that as long as he can survive in hindi, why shud he learn kannada. That's the exact point Im trying to make. Try talking only hindi in tamilnadu.much Sooner than later, you will be forced to learn tamil. Reason? because,generally tamilians will never entertain another language,even if they know how to speak in that language. Then how come you dont find the same problem in karnataka. Because,kannada ppl,even if they have a minimum or no knowledge of hindi,will somehow manage to understand/reply back. Reason? bcoz, they have a helping nature. And, you call THIS survival. Boss(uttar pradesh), you are surviving only with hindi bcoz kannadigas help you along with it. Go live in tamilnadu and then u will understand the importance of karnataka. Persian invaders also survived in India,without knowing any indian language, by using pure brutal force. Does that mean,that just bcoz u r able to survive without learning local language,the whole thing is justified. Will YOU respond back in kannada if I were to come to UP and talk to you ? The reason is not because of an inclusion of hindi as 3rd language here. For your kind info, I never had hindi after class 3. My I lang-Sanskrit, II-lang - English and III lang-kannada. So ppl need not necessiraly know hindi and trust me,most dont. They just somehow manage to blabber out somethin, all for the sake of being hospitable. And also because we(kannadigas) try, where as people like you DONT TRY and there are some good exceptions like Amit Anand.
