Mind your language please!!!!

Eons ago man came up with language to communicate. Where only means to convey thoughts were actions, grunts and squeaks, now man could communicate effortlessly. Slowly migration began and we colonised the whole world. Everyone developed their own language and that's how a means that united us, became a means to isolate, divide and faction us. And today with the advent of modern civilization, the art of segregation via language continues. 

Let's just talk about just our motherland for now. Our diversity in language, culture and people is no longer accompanied by unity and harmony. The ongoing drama in the southern states over imposition of Hindi is a testament to that. While hindi is a majorly spoken language in most of the regions , it is still by far not qualified enough to be a national language. To add to the same brouhaha, in comes English. Though a global language and officially the most spoken, it is a symbol of an era of colonialism that our country suffered through. As much as globalization can't be ignored our roots can't forget the symbolism and atrocities associated with the English. Hence we vehemently oppose it's dominance in our language circuit, all the while fighting for the relevance of our regional tongues. In this ongoing fiasco we have completely forgotten that language came to unite us, while we use it to fight, separate and segregate ourselves.

States are running to declare their regional languages as a part of educational curriculum while politicians are busy ridiculing and undermining English and Hindi in their regions to appease their regional vote banks. In the midst of this political and regional dissent, we forget that while regional languages are a lasting connection to our roots, English whether we like ot accept it or not, is the language that has broken the global barrier.

Our curriculum needs incorporation of our regional languages so that the current computer-savvy English speaking generation remembers its roots. But we also need to make the current curriculum more practical stressing primarily on our linguistic, communication and interpersonal skills. God forbid but most of my peers and juniors are stuck in a horrifying hinglish limbo with proficiency in neither. And then there are a select few who flaunt their superiority based on their English speaking skills. They forget that they have this skill because they had the privilege alongwith economic and environmental support to become well versed in quite frankly a very confusing and tricky language.

Ultimately though language was originally meant to be a means to convey our thoughts and feelings to individuals and masses, slowly we have incorporated it into a part of our identity. We have forgotten it's true purpose to unite, while we fight and use it as a means to divide and ostracize.