English or Hindi or Marathi/ Malayalam or Tamil/ Telugu or Kannada – All just to communicate Bro’s

Last November, When Mumbai was attacked by terrorists; it was Mumbai Cops and the NSG Commandos belonging to various states who speaks Non-Marathi languages, has battled and rescued the people. 17 Policemen and 2 NSG commandos had sacrificed their lives too. At that moment, I thought that at least thereafter, MNS Chief, Raj Thackeray would have learnt that India is one and stop his heinous acts and Hooliganism against the people belonging to different region or different language.

I really felt bad, when I watched this incident of MNS activists attacking a Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) school in Satpur suburb of the city, where a cultural programme of North Indians was being held and a session of Bhojpuri song was going on. I don’t understand and gets puzzled thinking, is it all for a language or region?

There were few incidents in Tamilnadu last before year, few parties like PMK and others forcing the sign boards of shops to be only in Tamil. Is it all for political gains??

Even during my college days, I myself had seen hostility among students from Andhra and Tamilnadu. Those stray incidents still hurt me sometimes and I felt bad for even younger and well educated generation getting into it. I don’t understand what pride you have in your language/region; it doesn’t say who you are and it doesn’t determine your attitude?

What is language? If you key in this word in Wikipedia, this is what you get:

“A language is a dynamic set of sensory symbols of communication and the elements used to manipulate them. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon. Strictly speaking, language is considered to be an exclusively human mode of communication.”

It is just a mode of communication to express/understand the feeling of each other. I feel the same since my childhood as my mother tongue is Tamil, born and brought up in Andhra studying Telugu and married to a Malayali living in Karnataka.

These political people are using it just for their gains and to get publicity. But the governemnt shouldn’t be a mute spectator watching these people creating nuisance to Public. I hope the government takes stringent action against these people who creates disunity and attack the innocent people of India. Such organisations should be banned as terror groups and people involved in such hooligan act should be given the highest punishments as they are more dangerous than the outside terrorists.

If these leaders want to be so proud about their language/region, let them first eradicate Poverty, Illiteracy, Corruption and so many other things in their language/region instead of doing all these non-sense.

I wish that the Modern India and Its young generation don’t restrict themselves into smaller circles like Language/Religion. World is Big.

I am niether proud to be a Tamilian, Andraiite nor a Malayalli / Bangalorean….

Proud to be an Indian and More than that a Human.

Chandra.