Questions for indians

vineshvk · October 10, 2007, 10:15pm

Re: Questions for indians

queer, how come you know Hindi so well and even more stranger how come u speak punjabi so well with moin ul atiq?

I hope south Indian languages are given just as much importance.
Maybe they should teach the malayalam language and history just as extensively as Hindi and the general Indian History in Kerala but if only malayalam language and history are taught than i guess all the other states would follow in the same way and there will be small countries within India with no connection to each other. They might as well separate into small independent countries of their own…i’m sure there are other countries in this world that would love to see this happen to India. So, I think a country needs a common language and history to keep the country together and see each other as Indians more and not just as Gujaratis, punjabis, Biharis, etc. We can always teach stuff the schools don’t teach about our respective subcultures to our children at home on our own.

But it’s pretty cool that Indians that grew up in India know so many languages. in the future I hope to teach my kids both Hindi(while I learn it myself) and our native language…let’s hope they retain both of them :Dinstead of just English like most Indian Americans(except me of course:halo:).

India will not break if they allow each state to develop their own language or teach their history. We need in India more federalism, which would be beneficial for the whole country. May be even kashmir could be more peacefull if we allow for lesser central govt. control.