At first place, when you travel or get resettle at different place than your home town, one should take efforts in knowing the local culture with some immediate basic communication language and this will help the person himself to communicate properly. As time goes one should be able to communicate in the local language. Secondly, We in India have multiple languages which we have inherited and no one can runaway from this, so it is imperative and a good gesture to learn the local language and culture where you stay so that you get close to local people and create a more healthy & understanding environment. Lastly, having said above it should also be kept in mind that Hindi is our National Language and at the same breath we should respect and everybody as Indian should be able to speak our national language whereever they reside in any parts of country. Mumbai is an best example, where one can find that almost 99.99% of the people understand or speak Hindi, which is highly respectable. Great Mumbai. Learn Local language to communicate and understand better.
Re: Integrity
by rahul jagdale on Sep 08, 2008 05:47 PM Permalink
Praksh, I respect your views but, would like to make one thing clear just for your information that Hindi is not our national language, No disrespect. I am surprise to see how many people are ignorant about this fact.
Re: Integrity
by Prakash Tiwari on Sep 08, 2008 06:09 PM Permalink
Rahul, I understand that you must be referring to official languages which is laid down under law, but if my understanding and information is correct One language has been selected as National language which binds the whole country. If there is any changes to this which i may not ne aware, please correct me. Thanks for feedback and response.
Re: Integrity
by rahul jagdale on Sep 08, 2008 06:14 PM Permalink
Prakash, When Indian constitution was made, we had similar problems regarding accepting one language as a national language, So to avoid this contitution says India as a nation will have no national language as it is so diverse, instead India will have officical languages. Sayin all this No disrespect towards Hindi
Re: Integrity
by Vijay Nikam on Sep 08, 2008 06:04 PM Permalink
Hindi is our administrative language and it's not mentioned anywhere in our constitution that Hindi is our National Language.
Re: Integrity
by rahul jagdale on Sep 08, 2008 05:57 PM Permalink
Amit, As per Constitution of India there is no national language in India, instead ,India has 14 official languages and that includes English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi etc. This is the reason why southern states and all other non hindi speaking states do not use hindi as a speking or office language. I hope this will help you
