Hindi - The Dying Language

India is the country with a great diversity of Cultures, Traditions, Religions, Cuisines, Colour, Creed, Caste and many more things. India is known for its greatness and the warmth with which it welcomes everyone. There is a saying in India, 'Atithi Devo Bhawah' which means that our guest is like God(although it should not be the case) and hence we should give them the respect and care as if we are welcoming God.
In India, we find people who are most willing to help each other and are very friendly. It is the country in which every faith and religion lived without any kind of prosecution and I am proud of my country.

The official language of India is Hindi. It is the most widely used language of India and is spoken almost in every part of north India with lots of different dialects.
But today we see that our language has not remained pure. Almost 60-70% of Hindi is Urdu.I am not exaggerating, Its a fact. And I have no problem people speaking Urdu. Its a very good and polite language. But what we have to think about is that we are unable to preserve the genuineness of Hindi language.

I have observed that most of the people don't know even the simplest Hindi words and I am one of them. Just ask a person to translate a few English words in Hindi and they will translate it in Urdu as they don't know the difference between Urdu and Hindi.

The arrival of the Mughals in India was a turning point in the history of our country. They gifted us with their art, music, architecture, culture, language and many more things. We adopted most of them and they became a prominent part of our culture.
When we are living with a culture which is much similar to our's, we are bound to adopt some of them in our lives and that is what we did. We started speaking Urdu with the advent of Islam in India and we lost the touch of Hindi.
It is a very good thing that you are trying to learn many languages but it should be kept in mind that we are not to mingle these with our own language. Each language has its own identity and we should try to preserve the authenticity of the language.

The main problem of this new generation is that it is gradually discarding the Hindi language. Children today are brought up with heaps of English books and novels and they don't want to read Hindi books as their parents think that it would buffer their English speaking skills. They want their children to start speaking English as soon as they are born as if English is something very important for their survival. I agree that if we are to interact any where else in the world, English proves to be the best medium of our interactions. But then, their is no need for us to converse with our own people in English. We see that today most of the people are keen to learn English just to show that they belong to some very high class society.
This should not be the case. We can learn English at our schools and there is no need for the children to practice the same at home. The parents should encourage the children to try to learn Hindi.They should interact with them both in English and in Hindi.

The children must be given Hindi novels and books along with the English ones and it should be taken care of that they are reading them instead of piling them up their shelves.

It is for this reason that today, there are very few good Hindi writers in India. There is no passion for our mother tongue and that is why the writers are not getting fair revenues for their work. The writers feel that their work is not appreciated and they reluctantly give up their work. This is not done!
We as Indians should approach towards the upliftment of Hindi language otherwise it would be too late.
Our language is dying slowly and we don't want it to be extinct somewhere beneath our ignorance.

Alhamdulillah,
Amen.