Monday, October 30, 2006

"Marathi ase aapuli maayboli"...

To begin, the title translates as "Marathi is my mothertongue". India being a melting pot of so many cultures and language-speaking people, its obvious that language is a major binding force. I also somehow fall into the category of people who feel compelled to speak Marathi when I identify someone as being a fellow Marathi. Though the intensity of that urge has come down considerably along the years.

People tend to take this binding force a step forward to create a sense of belongingness to the language. Hence in every state which has industrialization, we have these set of people who think that their language is under threat! We have Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, Bong etc saving communities - i.e. people who see to it that the language is preserved from foreign attack.

I started thinking, how can anything be bigger than human being? And language for that matter? Do we force people to speak our language just because we want our comfort more than anything else? Why do people lose focus so easily about the fact that we are here for the betterment of human beings and not language? So does it really matter to me if the guy in my neighbor who is a nice human being otherwise, speaks my language?

Guess people do not have guts to have a better purpose in life, and so they are happy in their little shells to think of such things!!

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