I’ll Have What They’re Smoking
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Sparked by that Reliance commercial...
I am forced to wonder, is कहो ना प्यार है that much harder to write than Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai? I found it so acceptable that a teeny bopper would write words that way that I didn't even question the loss of the indigenous script!
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It's not as difficult to write as it is to read! Though people from all over India watch Hindi movies, what percentage of them do you think can actually read/ write in Devanagari? A significantly smaller number, I am sure.
PS: Dude, you've been AWOL for a while! Everything good?
வென் ஹீ வாஸ் ப்ரெஸிடெண்ட் அஃப் காங்க்ரஸ், சுபாஸ் சந்திர போஸ் சஜெஸ்ஸ்டட் தட் ஹிந்தி இன் ரோமன் ஸ்க்ரிப்ட் ஷுட் பீ த நேஷனல் லாங்க்வேஜ்
தோஸ் டேஸ் ஹிந்தி அண்ட் உர்து வெர் வையிங் ஃபொர் தெய்ர் இண்டிவிஜுவல் ஐடெண்டிடீஸ். வைல் த லங்குவேஜஸ் மிங்க்ல்ட் த ஸ்க்ரிப்ட் வாஸ் த மார்க் அஃப் ஐடெண்டிடி- விச் இன்க்ளூடட் த ரிலீஜியஸ் ஆங்கிள்.
போஸ்'ஸ் சஜெஷன் எய்ம்ட் டு ரீச் அ காம்ப்ரமைஸ். தே யூஸ்ட் இட் இன் த ஐ.என்.ஏ டாக்குமெண்ட்ஸ்
Oh to finally find someone who can ensure my effortless reading AND comprehension of Thamizh! I know, I couldn't have my language cortex more comfortably screwed up. :-)
"Bose suggested that Hindi in Roman script should be the national language" -- really? LOL!
IITG: That is a good point. I wonder if there are actually Marathi or Bihari people who speak versions of Hindi and yet are completely unaware of Devanagiri... and as always things could be better. I have been AWOL. I'll email you soon.
dagalti: Now that was quintessentially dagalti! LOL! What were Bose's reasons?
And speaking of Bose, have you read Jeyamohan's article on N.N.Pillai's autobiography. He paints a rather sorry picture of the INA and Bose himself.
//What were Bose's reasons? //
While the idea does seem laughably silly we should give him a little bit of a time handicap. Even till the 1930s the devanagri script was not seen as the 'standard' for Hindi. Emphasising on that gave Muslims in the then unified India a worry that post Britain, India would be a Hindu dominant country (or so claimed the Muslim League). Hindi rightwingers were all for the Devanagri script of course.
Bose's suggestion was a middle path: what is nobody's can be everybody's.Later, Nehru - quite typically - insisted that Hindi in both scripts- would be the national language. That stand lost by a very close margin (to exclusive Devanagri) in the Constituent Assembly debate.
Haven't read the JM article you refer to, but surely does not surprise me that he dissed Bose. The "sense of history" that JM always refers to was something that Bose lacked.
Historians have refused to cut him down to size. But I find it very annoying when it is portrayed that, if not for Gandhi scuttling him, Bose would have got us 'freedom' on a platter with watercress around it.
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