Get out of the language barrier

Hi all. How are you guys doing? Well, I am back to blogging after quite a long time :-). Getting bombarded with lots of work and responsibilities these days. Well, sometimes I don’t understand meaning of the term Long Time. I think it always depends on our liking or let’s say love or affection towards something, but I could never justify that. For example when I don’t catch up with my girl friend for a week it’s surely a long time no see situation, but when I don’t catch up with work even for a month it’s never a long time no work situation :-). So stupid, but true. Rules are meant to be broken and I must say definitions are meant to be mistaken.. so everybody does it.

Mr. Amitabh Bacchan once said in film Namak Halal “English is a very funny language”..haha..Such an awesome scene it is. Worth watching 100 times. Here is the video for you guys.

I must say he was never wrong on his part. This is the fact that every individual needs to face in growing India. We are the only country to have 347 spoken languages. I heard somewhere that an official language of the Republic of India is Hindi, and its subsidiary official language is English, but is English really being subsidiary? People say the different languages have so many goods, but bad’s too with no proper communication flowing. Well, crazy minds; I don’t think so. Look at Chinese people what have they lost not following standards? They have their own language being used for business purpose and if we want business with them we must learn their language. Look at the French people too.

I can see the several instances where the talent is being ignored in India only because of the weakness in spoken and written English. Does everyone need to master the language to earn money? If anyone couldn’t do it, does it mean that person has no rights to grow in his own country even though he is trying to be loyal to his country and offering his services to the nation? Amitabh’s above dialogue speaks a lot about condition of these people. I personally think we Indians are too much proud of our regional languages that we don’t respect others, but guess what? Our subsidiary national language never gets that treatment because it helps us earn. Why is it so?

According to me, learning a different language must not be mandatory in countries like India as when it comes to creativity, IDEAS matter the most than Language. Saint Dyaneshwar did’t ask Marathi people to learn Sanskrit to understand the meaning of Bhagvad Geeta. He rewrote his own version in Marathi "DYANESHWARI" so that the SAR reaches to masses. Many others did the same in their languages. They were really great people.

I may contradict on my own statement, but even if I said learning particular language should not be mandatory, I would like to add that it should be done as fun and by them who want to learn something from it by heart. Believe me; learning different language is not that boring. I gave it a try to Kannada many times, but always ended up messing it up. One day I will learn to speak at least few lines to speak general things, I can use it someday. This i feel only because some interesting incidents happened with me 2 years ago. I had been to Vijapur gol ghumat in Karnataka. Nice place and city it is, a prime tourist attraction. All the roads leading to the place were neat and clean, sign boards in English and all, but the moment we left Vijapur to move towards Kolhapur in Maharashtra, everything changed. I couldn’t find a single sign board in Hindi or English; everything was in Kannada (hope they have replaced it) and the people there don’t understand Hindi and English too as we were passing through small villages. So frustrating it was to map the route to Maharashtra. Once again I had been to Goa the same year and we were supposed to drive whole night to reach Pandharpur at 5 am in the morning. Our driver suggested that, if we take from Goa-Maharashtra border route, the journey will take time, so he suggested the way through the small portion of Karnataka in between two states, but again the same sign boards thing happened. The short cut was never meant to be short, rather we ended up spending 40 KM’s of running through the jungles only to come back to the point where we had started and started moving to Maharashtra through Goa-Maharashtra border. Border babu’s also collected 200 Rs. from us on each side of the border as we were carrying the legendry Mumbaiya number plate MH02. Why do babu’s think that people from Mumbai are the richest people in India? Well, for me learning Kannada is still the fun.

For me the Necessity to learn and choice to learn are the two different things. The talent should never be calculated based on these things and that’s why the concept called Team work came into the picture. Everybody doesn’t have everything, but has at least something to count for. Instead of blaming that person for everything he doesn’t have and everything he can’t do, we need to find that something in him and use it for the cause. This really works! Look at the people like Valentino Rossi, Mourinho, Inzamama Ul haq, The legend Sachin Tendulkar. They all achieved something they want in their lives. How many standards did they follow? Think….

So much more to speak on this, but short of time to pen it down!! Signing off for the day :-)..See you again..Bubye..