War... does not only mean physical violence.. but also mental violence.
I am now writing the stream-of-consciousness running in my brain that goes wild like tsunami within.
Might makes right
Socrates was poisoned to death for standing against the church's views. He stated "Might makes right". Similar thing I am facing in present day India. I feel that as a Tamil-an I am not treated with equality in India. The inner-minds of every Hindi speaking Indian has some kind of upper hand over Tamil and generally south-Indian states. This is what I call "Might makes right". In outside world people never expose how racist they are. I cannot prove that most Hindi people have hatred towards south-indians. But it actually exist. This is my problem. People act infront of the world. In olden days people can fight directly and no cold-wars happen. But due to the advent of modern-society, the laws go in hands of Majority or otherwise the 'MIGTY' , who makes the laws and RULES.. The voice of minority is suppressed or never heard (like this blog)
When I go to non-Tamil region in India, people make derogatory statements about 'Madras' (Chennai). In spite of the fact, that Tamilnadu adds best qualities like music/cinema/IT/motor-industries, India does not recognize it, just because of the language barrier. Hindi-speaking people mostly think themselves superior for some unexplainable reason (may be skin color divide??).
When people of tamilnadu raise against this, they were called activists, terrorist kind of people, people who disintegrate the nation and so on.. WHY ????? shouldn't we defend our language when someone derogates its values.
There is always a fear among the minority groups that "what if the majority crushes us???" So minority people like Tamils will always be actively monitoring any smallest event that hurts the Tamil sentiments. For the majority Hindi-speaking people there is no need for such anxiety over their language. They know that their language is not at stake.
India has laws that says there is NO national-language in India. But many people in India ask/say me "Why haven't you learnt Hindi..? It is our national-language ..." This might seems to be a simple question in day to day life. But it is very provoking for me. It is all my wish to learn or not. Why would someone pester you with this kind of statements??? I will learn it when I actually need to. But pestering things like this brings about hatred feeling involuntarily.
Even some people who read this might think that I am a fool/lunatic/racist/etc.. But I am NOT.. I am enthusiast of Tamil language. I can do things that could help humanity. I certainly don't need Hindi to do this. If Hindi is a car and Tamil is a bike, I am OK with bike.. when I desperately need a car, I will try to get it. I am now happy with the bike.. I don't want car sellers to pester me to get a car.
Importance of Tamil (to me)
I am born and brought up in Tamilnadu. When I was a child, I know only one language Tamil. The language is like a "tool". You learn to communicate all your feelings (that make up a human) in your mother tongue. So Tamil is like a tool.. it is like an organ for me. It is like water to fish. This language (Tamil) is a part of me and it a part of my ego. Many people would say we should use language only for "communication" and it should not divide people. I accept it, but this hold good only when someone actually want to 'communicate' the ideas to you.
I am now writing the stream-of-consciousness running in my brain that goes wild like tsunami within.
Might makes right
Socrates was poisoned to death for standing against the church's views. He stated "Might makes right". Similar thing I am facing in present day India. I feel that as a Tamil-an I am not treated with equality in India. The inner-minds of every Hindi speaking Indian has some kind of upper hand over Tamil and generally south-Indian states. This is what I call "Might makes right". In outside world people never expose how racist they are. I cannot prove that most Hindi people have hatred towards south-indians. But it actually exist. This is my problem. People act infront of the world. In olden days people can fight directly and no cold-wars happen. But due to the advent of modern-society, the laws go in hands of Majority or otherwise the 'MIGTY' , who makes the laws and RULES.. The voice of minority is suppressed or never heard (like this blog)
When I go to non-Tamil region in India, people make derogatory statements about 'Madras' (Chennai). In spite of the fact, that Tamilnadu adds best qualities like music/cinema/IT/motor-industries, India does not recognize it, just because of the language barrier. Hindi-speaking people mostly think themselves superior for some unexplainable reason (may be skin color divide??).
When people of tamilnadu raise against this, they were called activists, terrorist kind of people, people who disintegrate the nation and so on.. WHY ????? shouldn't we defend our language when someone derogates its values.
There is always a fear among the minority groups that "what if the majority crushes us???" So minority people like Tamils will always be actively monitoring any smallest event that hurts the Tamil sentiments. For the majority Hindi-speaking people there is no need for such anxiety over their language. They know that their language is not at stake.
India has laws that says there is NO national-language in India. But many people in India ask/say me "Why haven't you learnt Hindi..? It is our national-language ..." This might seems to be a simple question in day to day life. But it is very provoking for me. It is all my wish to learn or not. Why would someone pester you with this kind of statements??? I will learn it when I actually need to. But pestering things like this brings about hatred feeling involuntarily.
Even some people who read this might think that I am a fool/lunatic/racist/etc.. But I am NOT.. I am enthusiast of Tamil language. I can do things that could help humanity. I certainly don't need Hindi to do this. If Hindi is a car and Tamil is a bike, I am OK with bike.. when I desperately need a car, I will try to get it. I am now happy with the bike.. I don't want car sellers to pester me to get a car.
Importance of Tamil (to me)
I am born and brought up in Tamilnadu. When I was a child, I know only one language Tamil. The language is like a "tool". You learn to communicate all your feelings (that make up a human) in your mother tongue. So Tamil is like a tool.. it is like an organ for me. It is like water to fish. This language (Tamil) is a part of me and it a part of my ego. Many people would say we should use language only for "communication" and it should not divide people. I accept it, but this hold good only when someone actually want to 'communicate' the ideas to you.
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