ଶକ୍ତିପ୍ରସାଦ Shaktiprasad

Dear South Indians, you fought Hindi domination for decades. Now, apparently, you have one noble job left which can save a classical language called Odia. Yes, I said Odia. You have been the wall that refused to let Hindi swallow other languages. You stood up for your mother tongues. You defended multilingualism, multiculturalism and linguistic diversity because of you a classical language like Odia survived. Now here is the fucking irony. Many Odias themselves keep saying: “Learn Hindi. Hindi will get you jobs.” “Learn Hindi. You need it for business.” “Learn Hindi. How else will you buy vegetables?” “Learn Hindi. You need it to survive outside Odisha.” Fine. People learn Hindi. But then comes the part nobody wants to talk about. After learning Hindi because they supposedly need it for jobs and economic opportunities, many of these very people leave Odisha and go to Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala looking for jobs and business opportunities. So let me ask a very simple question: If Hindi is the language you supposedly need for jobs, why are you not going to the Hindi speaking belt (UP, Bihar) and why going to South India for those jobs? And once you enter a South Indian state, shouldn't you be learning English and the local language? Why should the local people abandon their mother tongue and switch to Hindi simply because you chose to learn Hindi instead of learning English? And this is where I am asking South Indians to do something very simple. The next time an Odia person comes to you and speaks Hindi, tell them bluntly Don't speak Hindi to us. Speak to us in our language. Let them experience that insult,these fucking idiots need to be called out so brutally that the embarrassment hits them in the face. They need an insult strong enough to make their faces turn red with shame. Let them feel how it is to abondon your mother tongue and spent whole life learning some useless language instead of learning better English. Maybe then they will understand what it actually means to love and protect your mother tongue. I want to see these buggers face when they realise learning hindi actually gives them nothing but humiliation.