1. Hindi was a poor man’s Sanskrit.
2. When knowledge of Sanskrit diminished among masses, Hindi stepped up to the job
3. Hindi’s reach is not given to it by constitutional privilege ever
4. Hindi is one Indic bhasha, like Sanskrit, which no single region can claim as its native
2. When knowledge of Sanskrit diminished among masses, Hindi stepped up to the job
3. Hindi’s reach is not given to it by constitutional privilege ever
4. Hindi is one Indic bhasha, like Sanskrit, which no single region can claim as its native
5. In 1800s Hindi lang and Devanagari script was deliberately chosen -by leaders not from areas that are wrongly called Hindi- heartland - but mostly from Gujarat, Punjab, or Bengal
6. Most of them, like Dayanand, were staunch Sanskritists, who while dreamers were also pragmatist
6. Most of them, like Dayanand, were staunch Sanskritists, who while dreamers were also pragmatist
7. Since the last about one thousand years - there is one language that can be generally understood by masses from cities of Afghanistan to North East India and Bangladesh, down south till parts of Karnataka
8. That bhasha of convenience in its modern form is called Hindi
8. That bhasha of convenience in its modern form is called Hindi
9. Hindi never struggled with its sister and cousin languages for privileges and power - except with Urdu - which it continues today
10. It is English which is quickly displacing desha bhashas from households, and interrupting their generational transmission, not Hindi.
10. It is English which is quickly displacing desha bhashas from households, and interrupting their generational transmission, not Hindi.
11. Of course we need to revive Sanskritam, and only Sanskritam deserves to be our national tongue.
12. Are we ready? Is that revival done from mass movement or from constitutional movement?
13. Those who are willing to kill and die in opposition to Hindi will embrace Samskritam?
12. Are we ready? Is that revival done from mass movement or from constitutional movement?
13. Those who are willing to kill and die in opposition to Hindi will embrace Samskritam?
14. Those who cite Israel’s adoption of Hebrew as a model of how Samskritam can be overnight adopted, are ignorant of history. Israel had to brutally suppress EVERY other language that multilingual Jews spoke. That was the only way. We willing to do that?
15. Be it Dayanand or Savarkar or Sharat Chandra - they all felt Hindi was a practical and readily available medium for Hindu nation to gradually get there.
16. It is true that seculars have been trying to sabotage that dream and apparently succeeding. Maolawood, media, edu...
16. It is true that seculars have been trying to sabotage that dream and apparently succeeding. Maolawood, media, edu...
17. But on which side are you?
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जय भारत जय भारती
