I mean that's disgusting.It has been 60 years to independence and yet a college established in one of the metropolitants of independent India would want to come out with a magazine which should contain each and everything in English, just as those old British would have loved prior 1947. And, the funny thing is , a huge majority of the students coming to the college are from Hindi and Bengali medium schools, and for them to expresss their views and thoughts in English becomes even more difficult. The simple thing i cannot understand why cannot the college magazine contain some vernacular works. Books are the mirrors to society and the magazine should be the same for the college, by providing concrete expressions to the thoughts,views,observations and literary skills of the college students, but the "Only in English" policy hampers it from being one in a huge way. I know English is the universal language and it is very important to us to excel in our careers, but it really does not mean we need to throw our mother languages out of the window. Tell me, don't we like the Rabindra Sangeet written in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore or whether we didn't like the 'lori' our mothers used to sing for us before sleep. That was not in ENGLISH ,was it? Our ancestors didn't know English yet they won freedom protesting and shouting aloud slogans in Hindi, Bengali and the various regional languages. That was what stirred the nation. And it still does today.
We should learn to take pride in our languages, but unfortunately we are great imitators, and we follow without reasoning, and that's why we follow the western culture blindfolded; everything they do is good, whatever they speak it's great-this is a sort of mentality we seem to have developed. But that's hardly the truth. Because like everything else, the west also owes its language to the east. English has got its origin in Sanskrit,the language of India. Today, when Hindi is gaining in popularity all over the world including U.S, U.K and China, it is depressing to see Indians running after English like mad. We should learn to be proficient in English but we should not forget our own languages as well. We should remember that Hindi is our national language and that the national song and the national anthem of our country is in Sanskrit and Bengali, and not in English. Bankim Chandra wrote in bengali, so why shouldn't we? We are good hosts by nature; we welcome every foreign country coming to India, respect their culture and language but if we dont respect our own country, its language and culture no one will. We should not forget our identity, the land we belong to and the colour of the blood flowing through our veins and if we do so, we will be left with nothing. Before ending, I just hope that somehow we manage to pierce this dark cloud of blindfolded-western-culture-imitation that has been overshadowing us for long and come into real light, the bright sunshine of rightful thinking and real independence.
Iska ka kuch bhi karna mushkil hai.. Baat yahaan shuru hoti hai ki yahaan hum dusre prant ki bhashaon ko nahiin jaante.chahte nahiin chahte hue bhi angreezi humme ek roop se jorti hai . Dukh ki baat ye hai ki aaj angreezi ki yah prathmikta itni ban gayee hai ki hum apni bhasha ke sundarta se nazar mor lete hain.
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