See the vision & clarity of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, on the Significance of One Script, One Language FOR INDIANNESS – HEADS ABOVE PETTY POLITICS!
This may be quite right, but the most important question before us at this juncture is to make India a unified nation, but this cannot be done all at once. For this we have to move step by step. If we cannot adopt one language for the whole of India at the moment, we should at least adopt one script.
Singh, Bhagat . Jail Diary and Other Writings (p. 14). GENERAL PRESS. Kindle Edition.
Their ignorance of Indianness and Indian literature is the main reason of this. When they cannot imbibe Indianness, how can their literature make us Indian?
Singh, Bhagat . Jail Diary and Other Writings (p. 14). GENERAL PRESS. Kindle Edition.
Only a few days back, a government translator, using the urdu script, mistook sage Nachiketa as ‘Neechi Kutia’ which can be translated as a ‘bitch of low origin’, while translating an Urdu book Qaumen kis Tarah Zinda Rah Sakti Hain (How nationalities can survive) by Lala Hardayalji, M.A. It was neither Lalaji’s fault nor the translator. It was only a shortcoming of the Urdu script and the dissimilarity between Urdu and Hindi languages and literature. [Singh, Bhagat . Jail Diary and Other Writings (p. 15). GENERAL PRESS. Kindle Edition.]
Instead of making language a communal question, we should adopt a wide perspective.Singh, Bhagat . Jail Diary and Other Writings (p. 15). GENERAL PRESS. Kindle Edition.
Before that, we have to realise that ideal in our own country. We have to adopt one language, one script, one literature, one ideal and one nation, but the adoption of a single language precedes all the other unities, so they we can communicate with and comprehend each other. A Punjabi and a Madrasi must not sit together mute at a gathering, but try to communicate their ideas and emotions, and this should be done in our own language, Hindi, rather than in an alien language like English. Even this ideal will take years to be realised. First of all, we should create literary awareness in this endeavor, not among a few but in the masses. The people’s own language is essential for creating literary awareness among the people. On the basis of this logic, we say that you can succeed in Punjab only in Punjabi language. Singh, Bhagat . Jail Diary and Other Writings (pp. 15-16). GENERAL PRESS. Kindle Edition.
All the words, cannot end without the sound ‘a’ and its inability to write compound letter; even the word ‘Poorna’ (complete) cannot be written. This script is thus even more incomplete than Urdu,
Singh, Bhagat . Jail Diary and Other Writings (p. 16). GENERAL PRESS. Kindle Edition.
but when we already have a scientific and perfect Hindi script, [My humble note – Hindi is NOT A SCRIPT, BUT LANGUAGE, DEVANAGRI IS THE SCRIPT.] what is there to feel hesitant about adopting it? [The forthright honesty, with which Bhagat Singh accepted & pointed out the imperfections of the Gurumukhi (his own script), let all linguists sit together, to discuss threadbare the respective pros & cons of their respective scripts, and arrive at the optimal form of the MODIFIED DEVENAGRI]. The Gurmukhi script is only distorted form of the Hindi script. Right from the start all the rules are same, then, how much will we be benefited by our immediate switch over to this. The Punjabi language will start developing immediately by adopting this perfect script. And there is no problem in the propagation of it. Hindu women of Punjab already know this script.
The DAV school and Sanatan Dharma schools teach only in Hindi, what could be the problem in such a situation? We shall plead with the supporters of Hindi that, ultimately and certainly, only Hindi will be the language of the whole Bharat, but it will be more convenient to propagate it from now on. Punjabi will become like Hindi by adopting the script and then all the differences will disappear; and it is desirable, too that common people could be educated which is possible only through our own language in our own script.
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