An Ironic Task

 Hey Mitra! How did your day go? Mine was quite shocking. Why? Let's start our talk...

An Ironic Task

While me and my sister were trying to write a script, suddenly the idea of writing it in Hindi struck our minds and why not, after all, it's our mother tongue, right? 

My sister started to speak while I jotted it down. She spoke efficiently; I interrupted and told her that the language she was speaking in, wasn't Hindi but Hinglish actually, as she still used some words from English. So now the task was to speak in Hindi entirely for 5 min and astonishingly she couldn't complete 2 min. The table turned down to me and I failed at this task terribly as well. How many minutes can you speak entirely in Hindi as a native speaker?

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I had been shaken by what had just happened, the language to which we proudly proclaimed to be our mother language was slipping from our tongues! We had forgotten the meaning of certain words as well. Hindi, without which it was nearly impossible for us to see the sun of the independent India had now been overthrown by the English supremacy? We went to repeat this task on our other family members and the result didn't differ much, none of us could satisfactorily complete the given task. Aren't we just losing our Namaste for general hii and hello?

This task made me think of future India about 100 years from now, where Hindi might just remain to be a language of the past (like Sanskrit today) and suddenly time traveler within me had just become dead!

The Strange Responses

After performing the above-mentioned task, most of the people understood the gravity of the situation while some strange questions too rose like :

Why do we need to speak something in Hindi when we have English?

Isn't English already playing so well? Why to go for an outdated language?

The problem with these questions lies in their basic premise which sees English as some extremely superior language over Hindi and associating a fake sense of coolness while speaking English. In other words," Agr mn English bolta hu toh bohtt class hai bhaii aur Hindi bolu toh outdated? "

I was surprised and disappointed  to see these questions coming from a set of our younger generation.

Why am I writing in English ?

I definitely learnt a very important lesson and got reminded of importance of my mother tongue which was drifting away from and not just me but people in my surrounding too felt the same way. But, does this realisation mean to throw everything related to this foreign language aside? Ofcourse not, this means to not let our mother tongue drift away from us. This means to not let our mind fool us that one language is superior over others. This means to recall once again loud and clear, HINDI HAIN HUM WATAN HAI HINDUSTAN HAMAARA , SAARE JAHAN SE ACHCHA HINDUSTAN HAMARA

Dear reader, hope you enjoyed reading. Our motherland is a very prestigious place and to uphold its sanctity we need to make some efforts.This blog is just an effort to that. Share if you feel necessity, feedbacks are most welcoming in the comment section.