Union Government’s wrong move to promote “HINGLISH???
It refers to circular issued by Union Home Ministry directing government-departments to pollute Hindi by using some English words in Devnagri script to replace their actual Hindi counterparts. It is a step in reverse direction. Decision-takers sitting in North Block (New Delhi) have overlooked that even less educated people in states like Bihar and Eastern UP are commonly using such Hindi words in their normal conversation and use which Union government is now going to replace with English words in name of commonly used words. Even South Indian people when speaking in Hindi are fluent in using these words. Such replacement of Hindi words by English vocabulary will further harm Sanskrit which is already almost vanished from people’s life.
Instead Union government should promote Hindi by not only using only Hindi words in Hindi communications but also by propagating use of commonly used Hindi words, phrases and popular nouns in English Communication. Even unpopular Hindi words can be effectively popularised if used by media and government. Example is the word Doordarshan which became a household name for commoners once it was used by the national electronic media! Unfortunately we have Bharat called India and Dehli spelled as Delhi while most other countries changed names and spellings of their names and of their capitals as per actual pronunciation in their native languages! Likewise dual naming like ‘All India Radio’ and ‘Akashvani’ or ‘Parliament Street’ and ‘Sansad Marg’ should be done away by retaining only Hindi names like ‘Akashvani’ and ‘Sansad Marg’ also because popular nouns are never translated. Phrase ‘Aam Admi’ has been now quite common in English news-bulletins! Goal should be that world-renowned Oxford English Dictionary may adopt more and more Hindi words.
UN General Secretary Ban ki Moon appreciated Hindi at recently held World Hindi Conference at New York. The then US President George Bush accepted Hindi to be amongst popular world-languages being considered to be taught in US in an effort to make his country stay ahead in the fast changing-world! Reversely in India, government and media are busy in upgrading English at the cost of Hindi by creating an impression that domination of English can only make the country progress! Fact remains that such policy restricts all fruits of development to a select category of urbanites knowing English. All developed countries including China, Russia, France, Germany and Japan proudly use their own languages at all international levels without feeling shy of not communicating in English.
