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Written By R.Krishnamoorthy - 31 March, 2008

Bangalore Language and Culture

Banagalore is supposed to be a cosmopolitan city, but though i have no inhibition against any language, I find it difficult to travel by Bus ,as the Name Boards are only in Kannada. Having a side by side English & Hindi Board will help all and one, Indians as well as Foreigners

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language discussion moved to forum

admin123 - 6 April, 2008 - 01:48

Moved the language comments from storm water drain blog post to a separate forum thread [Admin]

Mr Krishnamoorthy, We

mcadambi - 31 March, 2008 - 23:45

Mr Krishnamoorthy,

We Kannadigas do not consider Bengaluru to be like Mumbai. We are quite tolerant and welcoming of people from all over the world to live, work and enrich our state.

The primary identity of Bengaluru is the *Capital* of Karnataka. Nothing more, nothing less.

You could move to Bihar if you so love Hindi.

yes.

Mithun - 1 April, 2008 - 15:10

Hi guys, sorry for sounding a chauvinist in my earlier post. I agree that both kannada & English should be present on name boards. ***Admin, could you please delete my earlier post with the subject 'language difficulty'? ***

National language!?!

Mithun - 1 April, 2008 - 15:35

Srivathsa, I am curious to know too, where is it written that Hindi is the national language (In my opinion, Govt of India & Constitution dont say so. Please note that official language & national language are different) ? Do you think so because our education system says so? Or is this thought coming up because of media? Here is what I think :- Hindi is just one of the many official languages of India. All the states in India have not declared Hindi as their official language. India does not have any national language. It never had. Hindi is just a regional language just like any other. AS per 2001 census, only 41% consider Hindi as mother tongue - which means, majority of Indian population does not think Hindi is their mother tongue. Chauvinism happens to maximum extent regarding Hindi. Education system bluffs all. Media bluffs all. I lived in a major city in central India few years back. They had their bus numbers, bus seat numbers and ticket amount in Hindi numerics. I couldnt even make out what amount was written in my bus ticket. Couldnt locate my seat. Nobody points a finger at them. Why dual standards? why is it so that we readily accept others' parochial acts and tell our people to leave the country but hate our own parochial acts?

TRILINGUAL SIGN BOARDS

drvk@in.com - 23 October, 2009 - 11:55

A suggestion to add to the inclusivity....

Why not have trilingual signboards: Hindi, Kannada and English..

Will serve localites/hindi speaking ppl(quite a large chunk of indias population) and foriegners/indian ppl who cant read either local language/hindi(i know quite a few of them)

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