Local Language Unfashionable
Does anybody have any idea how many languages exist in the World? I don't. All I know is that I'm well conversant in three languages and know two partially well. Here in India lot of importance is given to mother tongues or the language you acquire while in your mother's womb. For me its Hindi. I live in South India, a "No Hindi Zone" and the language spoken here is Telugu. I witnessed something really sad amongst students and fellow young citizens like me. They don't like Telugu! They think being heard speaking in a local language is unfashionable. They fall so low as to even announce that they don't know their own language. Shocking isn't it. So much importance is given to English that people forget that they have their very own language at which they are masters. I know English is important but these so called local, regional or vernacular languages are also important. They are our very identity, giving us a sense of belonging a sense of being ourse...