Re: Bhili and Gondi
It was just clipping not a complete session. Wait for a month or so for complete session to be uploaded on Rekhta’s website.
They shown the part where he said that languages need to evolve with the passage of time. The reality of all languages of sub-continent is simple. Languages flourish if they got economic usage. None of sub-continent’s language have that strength as English. So in a way, all languages are in danger at different level (those which got no script, no patronage are in more danger). Some got newspapers, news channels, publishing houses and all. But English is being used for official purposes.
If you have time, go through this session with Javed Akhtar in last year’s Jashn e Rekhta. He states how economics affected beauty and vocabulary of Urdu.
watch from 50:00 onwards