Be a roman in rome! Yes of course, everyone living in karnataka should learn kannada. everyone living in tamilandu shud learn tamil. This rule shud be followed in every state. Hindi is not our national language, south indians won't accept it. If north thinks we shud learn hindi then north shud learn south indian languages. Even muslims in karnataka dont speak good kannada, their accent is yuck!!! they are anti-kannada! Everyone living in karnataka should learn to speak kannada, or else leave karnataka! dont stay here! Jai Kannadambe!
RE:Kannada!
by Anuj Goyal on Apr 28, 2008 10:31 PM Permalink
south has diff language everywhere atleast northies are together and follow common language HINDI, anyways think how much your knowing of only regional language makes u lag behind, and live on northies RENTS
RE:Kannada!
by Pranesh Rao on Apr 28, 2008 09:36 PM Permalink
All over the world, local language and people have a dominant say except in few countries. It is alright if outsiders occupy top managerial, scientific and administrative jobs but unskilled labour, clerks, helpers, messengers where merit is not a factor should be predominantly from local population. Bangalore and Mumbai are two places in our country where local language and people are ignored and outsiders are imposing their language and people. I request all broad-minded people look at their own state and evaluate the dominance of its language and people there before commenting on Bangalore and Mumbai. Even Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton has said that jobs in USA should not be outsourced but should be given to locals. May broad-minded people please introspect.
RE:RE:Kannada!
by sudipta sarkar on Apr 28, 2008 10:07 PM Permalink
Sorry Pranesh, you are not entirely right. Kolkata like Bangalore and Mumbai , is also a city facing the same problem linguistically speaking. Kolkata is turning out to be city where Bengali is becoming the least spoken language in public places. Hindi, Marwari and Bhojpuris are becoming the majority. For sustainable development of human societies and cultures there should not be unfair and unacceptable influence of one culture over the other. If that happens it may be termed as cultural imperialism.So same applies to Kolkata , not just Mumbai and Bangalore.
RE:Kannada!
by khushi on Apr 28, 2008 09:12 PM Permalink
Let us not be so un-Indian! Could we say Kannadigas get out of India! Stupid it sounds, doesnt it. So accept it, Hindi is the national language and learn it just as u expect others to learn kannada.
RE:Kannada!
by Crush Honey on Apr 28, 2008 09:10 PM Permalink
U cant even differenciate between National and Regional Language. Ofcourse there are different accents of kannada in Karnatake itself (North and South Karnataka... so... does that make any difference... a true Indian wouldnt argue on these regionalism.
RE:Kannada!
by mahabodhi on Apr 28, 2008 09:43 PM Permalink
@gg !Language probelm is there but as you say "Be a roman in rome " very true!But as Netaji suggested that Indian languages should adopt ROMAN Script !If we accept Netaji's suggestion Language probelm will get solved!When Turkey Kamal ata Turk changed the script of turkey from Arabic to Roman and Indonesia has Roman Script then it will be easy for us to to accept Netaji's suggestion !
RE:Kannada!
by Terminator on Apr 28, 2008 09:03 PM Permalink
Hindi/Urdu is being imposed over all regional languages. All local languages like Marathi. Gujrati, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Tellugu etc are being marginalized.
