[Assam] [assam] Urdu declared an official language of West Bengal

[Sushanta Kar]

Well Said!

Sushanta kar

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:14 PM, <bbaruah at aol.com> wrote:

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> Dear Mr Roychoudhury
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> It also looks to me like a ploy preparatory to the next rounds of general
> elections. Well, Ms Mamata Banerjee is an astute politician
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> Yes, as Indians we know very well the history of our languages in India.
> We guard our language like a worker bee guarding its hive from predators.
> It is an integral part of our culture.
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> Urdu is already one of the Constitutional languages of India; it is rich
> in history and culture; it is modern and is spoken by a great many people
> of India spread over the entire subcontinent. The knowledge of another
> language is an additional qualification and anybody can make a living out
> of it.One can even aspire to become a Professor of the subject.
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> Very recently I posted a few emails: one of that mail was headed Are
> bilinguals cleverer than the monolinguals? Another email dealt with
> the trilinguals (the wording of the subject headings may be a little
> different from mine in those mails.
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> A friend of mine here, an Assamese lady, works as interpreter in  the
> Sylheti language. Funnily enough Sylheti is sort of officially recognised
> language in the United Kingdom. Non-Sylheti speaking Bengalese are
> debarred from certain Community-related positions under the Boroughs.
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> During my perambulations in Delhi, some forty years ago, I found that
> official records in a Police station were kept in Urdu. It was usual to find
> a free  Urdu newspaper in the small restaurants for the customers to read.
>  Once I met an Editor of a Hindi fortnightly journal who was not able to
> read or write Hindi. The Bengalese living in a number of cities in Uttar
> Pradesh, do not know Bengali well.
>
>
> Whether we like it or not, we in India live in a multilingual,
> multicultural society. I would not like to predict the political future of
> the North-East India
> right now.
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> -bhuban
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