I am not sure if the word regionalism is a valid word but then I am too lazy to look it up and it serves the purpose here for me. Oflate I have been reading a lot of stuff about India and how we have sold ourselves to the western world and the struggles and fights of getting back our individuality and culture.
Despite all these, there is no real feeling of oneness amongst the countrymen. There are a million things that divide us and we are happy to fight to keep it up that way. Language is one such element. Living in banglore, this is one thing I keep hearing often, that we use english and all other languages except kannada. Quite true I agree, but things are changing. I myself am making an effort to use kannada. It's another matter, I was born to telgu speaking parents and can't speak telgu for nuts. I guess that's also a typical banglorean characterstic, where ever the origin, everyone born in banglore finds kannada as a comfortable language to speak in than the language that parents speak.
And getting back on track to a common language for Indians, I strongly feel that Sanskrit is one language that is not associated to any region. This would make a good common language if the government makes an effort to bring it about. Also, we as people wanting to be of one nation, should strongly promote this too, In terms of getting back our own identity as people of a nation, rather than the divided regions of India. Learning Sanskrit has been an elegant thing and I think its pretty cool too with all the complexities it has. I am not saying we throw away kannada or hindi or whatever the languages we speak, but across regions we must use Sanskrit than force others to learn our language, both as hosts and as visitors.
And similarly we must make an effort to make things common and Indian, respect others of the country than show them attitude. Humbleness and kindness has been our cherished values, lets go by it.
-My thoughts for a strong united India
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