I had never thought that this opportunity will bring forth something like this and that it will end up in my blog post.
While working as a state coordinator for Gujarat state in India International Trade Fair-2018, I encountered this weird thing in just two days. I have started witnessing a huge brain-drain of the language Hindi. Yes, it is pretty natural for you all out there reading this to think how can I witness brain drain while being 24×7 in a place called Delhi, where they speak choicest of Hindi words.
The surrounding and ambience is thoroughly honey drops to my ears, a mixture of Haryanvi and Punjabi. But the most I love is the, raw, actual Delhite Hindi that the people speak. I take no time in getting it into my blood and I’m very very used to it. It is the language in which I think and my brain processes everything.
But all these days, I’ve to converse whole day long in gujarati. Because my artisians are of that native language, I can’t help it. But in this process, I’m witnessing a brain drain of Hindi. As I’m not well versed in Guajrati, I’m mixing up all three languages, Hindi, gujarati and my mother tongue. My mother tongue being the worst affected in this.
My brain has to constantly take efforts in construction of gujarati , because I’m not at all good at it and have to think a lot before making up sentences in my mind. In the process of conversing whole day, my brain had started to think in it..which I’m completely hating. I can’t believe that can affect my mind so much in just 2 days.
Today when I returned late to my residence, I was not able to think or process anything clearly. I felt too weird and afterwards, I heard my usual songs. As soon as I heard few lines of first song, I felt honeydew in my ears and felt very very relieved.
It’s not wrong or bad to get some foreign language into your nerves. But too much of it and all the time becomes suffocating. While in office, I have to speak it barely 8 hours. Here at Pragati Maidan, I’ve to speak more of it rather than Hindi, even though whole sea of people are Hindi.
This experience helped me understand it matters a lot in which language you live everyday and you think everyday. Too much of any foreign language to the one in which we think wreaks havoc on our thinking capacity.
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