

Who took away your freedom to speak Tamil. Is there any law passed? Padicha padi illana poitte iru - Nee hindi padikkalannu yevan azhudhan

paani poori vikkaravan ooru vittu ooru vandhalum ozhunga avan velaya pakkaran - kasu sambadhichi veettukku anupran. Avan inga vandha 6 masathula tamil pesa aarambichudran. Aana Ullurla vela vetti illama, sothukku thandam boomikku baarama sila alla kainga serndhapla rendu vartha tamil pesa varattiyum, Tamila kapatha porennu suthi thiriyaranga. Avan enge - neenga enga

Aama apadiye aruthu thaliduvaru - modhalla Tamila ozhunga padi - unakku Hindi yellam seri pattu varadhu.

Dei - unna yevan da padikka sonnadhu. Adhellam nalla padichu urupadaravangalukku. vayila kambu suthra unna madhiri alla kaikkellam hindi varadhu - poi velaya paru

Replying to Rajeshwari V, can you show a shred of evidence where Hindi is being asked to be made mandatory? Did you look at the New Education Policy and what it asks? It is allowing students to choose any langauge of their choice freely and also emphasizes subjects to be taught in the regional language for better absorption. Where did you get this "Mandatory" clause from?

Stop your gibberish with your intended tainting and taunting...

There is no point honestly... And you see these are people who are working or residing in other countries, so much for their pattru. This is not an old school thought, that's what is horrible. New generation, people in the age group of 26 to 50 are thinking like this. Learning a language has become a political thing now. Interestingly, they want everyone on TN to speak in Tamil. I wish other states did the same thing to the Tamil people residing in their states.

What culture you are talking about.. ? All hindu Kings who killed, harassed and tortured crores of hindus even before invaders landed? or you are talking about the upper hindus who considered rest of them as slaves?

While I disagree your viewpoint of Tamil being ONLY philosophical language, my point is, loss will be to those who have closed mindsets and baseless hatred towards other languages. Additionally, I can also promise you that, ignoring other languages will neither secure nor propagate the Tamil language as being promoted, as you will need to do a different set of actions for that. [Contd.]

First, I said, "Other languages" and you jumped to "Hindi" which shows your closed mind set. Nobody is crying that you did not learn. You keep missing the point that, you are denying yourself the ability and its got nothing to do with anyone else. you are shooting your own foot thinking you are hurting someone else up north :D

Maybe I did not set the context correctly in my previous posts. Learning additional languages could be 'need based' for you and me, but for the next gen children in public schools in TN, it is an opportunity which is being taken away due to petty politics and blind haters who back it up. DMK run schools teach Hindi, Sanskrit and other languages while it issues propaganda against these very languages in the pretext of saving Tamil. There is a bigger conspiracy in language politics and yours and my next gen is the real victim. Innum puriyalanna, kastham dhan.

I can only wake someone who is asleep - Not someone who is acting as one. Anti - Hindi movement and DMK are two sides of a same coin and are inseparable. They set the tone in TN against Hindi during 1980s. I am not bringing anti-DMK sentiment here, but just stating the fact how they set the narrative while their kids and grand kids learn these languages and their schools teach them. They could very well be indirectly responsible for the way you are thinking about other languages.

Rajeshwari V - We are also the same state where the CM is saying there is no money to rebuild school infra, pay salary to teachers, make the part time teachers permanent, and so on. Do you know the education quality TN students receive in public schools? Do you know how many KV school request petitions from our TN districts are lying with central education ministry? The same MLAs/MPs who shout and screech against Hindi in stage, are forced to ask for KV schools in their own districts due to public pressure. Just answer this, Will any politicians put their child in a public school system?

Rajeswari, you said it... TN is the 2nd richest state and the first 5 states in GDP ranking, are non-hindi speaking South Indian states.. These people have a back door agenda as usual.

How many Indian languages a Hindi wala knows other than Hindi.. ? Why you are not questioning the north Indians who are not interested in learning any south indian langauges and embrace more of Indian culture? Go and talk to a North Indian, you can feel that they are not even considering you as an Indian...

@sudan g, I already told why we can't ask this question to Hindi Wale. My question was simple - when Tamil people don't want others to force any languages, why do you do it to others? If you go to a Pani Puri wala, will you not force him to learn Tamil just so he had a shop in TN? will you speak to him in a language he will understand - so he is not forced to learn another language? Btw, except for 3 out of 30+ states, no one's mother tongue is Hindi. I don't know whom you call Hindi Wale.

@Sudan g, I am from northern part of India and I know 2 south indian languages. Tamil and Telugu. Simiilarly I know Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati as well though my mother tongue is Haryanavi. and these 3 non south indian languages are not Hindi. they are different language. I think point here is we need to start embracing other culture and diversity and show unity after all these are just languages for us to communicate. The best language is language of love.