Why does every other initiative in an MBA college has to be named in Hindi when the language doesn’t even figure anywhere in the remotest of corners of any campus, except the informal talking among peers. Does this mean people are actually missing the language? Or it has just become a fashion of some sort. Actually the topic itself can be a good project for a MBA student.
Sometimes it feels, it all would have started as a gesture of giving back something to the society, a topic of huge discussion even in the corporate world or may be because it’s so hot in the corporate city the suburbs of MBA want to show they are in it with them, all in the same line.
It’s been one year studying MBA and almost 95% (it’s just a misty figure to sound digiti) of the fests or college start-ups I’ve heard are all named in Hindi. Consider Netritva (IMT's quarterly student journal on management and strategy), Khilkari (IMT’s initiative to help the deprived), Parivartan (at IIT Delhi), Kshitij 2009 (at IIT kharagpur) etc. etc.
So many initiatives in Hindi just makes you wonder whether the language is up and running, trying to regain the exact place it has lost. And if you think too deep, it’s the memories of your own school life which will start to haunt you or may be just bring a smile of the good old days. It often makes me laugh the way we used to attend our Hindi classes. May be it’s the same kind of feeling NRIs get when they think about the country. Sometimes it makes me sad though all those fun times being gone, I have to remind myself time cannot be caged its feathers are just too bright but the part of you who knows it was a sin to lock it up, does rejoice.
I guess people here are just too damn bored with uttering the same old corporate English words. And it’s the start of another chapter in the history of Hindi, “The language of names”.
Sometimes it feels, it all would have started as a gesture of giving back something to the society, a topic of huge discussion even in the corporate world or may be because it’s so hot in the corporate city the suburbs of MBA want to show they are in it with them, all in the same line.
It’s been one year studying MBA and almost 95% (it’s just a misty figure to sound digiti) of the fests or college start-ups I’ve heard are all named in Hindi. Consider Netritva (IMT's quarterly student journal on management and strategy), Khilkari (IMT’s initiative to help the deprived), Parivartan (at IIT Delhi), Kshitij 2009 (at IIT kharagpur) etc. etc.
So many initiatives in Hindi just makes you wonder whether the language is up and running, trying to regain the exact place it has lost. And if you think too deep, it’s the memories of your own school life which will start to haunt you or may be just bring a smile of the good old days. It often makes me laugh the way we used to attend our Hindi classes. May be it’s the same kind of feeling NRIs get when they think about the country. Sometimes it makes me sad though all those fun times being gone, I have to remind myself time cannot be caged its feathers are just too bright but the part of you who knows it was a sin to lock it up, does rejoice.
I guess people here are just too damn bored with uttering the same old corporate English words. And it’s the start of another chapter in the history of Hindi, “The language of names”.
4 comments:
what an irony and what an insight.. we do come across it regularly but very often we miss the point.. good post.. keep writing.
thanks sir,
motivational words from the guru is always a pleasure to hear.
and speaking about Hindi, those of us who've spent some time in Chennai do tend to appreciate it that much more.
thik hai babua.. baddi jaldi nazar aaya tuje yeh..waise tell me how many dayzz it had been since u read something in hindi.. and more than that tried ur hand at writing in hindi? just try n u will be amazed ki tuje kitna yaad hai... aur kuch kaam cheez likho bakwaas chaap rahe ho :P
ek baar hindi paper padhne ka try kiya tha :( ....... but bahut maaza aaya :D
kaam ki hi cheez hai...... at least marriage, divorce ki non-sense story to nahi likh raha, teri tarah.
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