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Written By mcadambi - 18 May, 2008

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Mr Agarwal,

At the outset i wish to clarify that i do not have any personal animosity towards you or the armed forces.

W.r.t Army land in the prime CBD - this is what is the bone of contention. Such prime land could be better used for economic purposes than sitting idlly, for which the army has no use.

Hindi IS NOT the NATIONAL LANGUAGE. It was never meant to be and it will never be. I am only thankfully to Thiru C N Annadurai for putting a end to hindi hegemony. I shudder to think if India had embraced Hindi - the whole country would have become another Bihar.

Secondly, since when did articulating the right for Kannada and Karnataka become parochialism? For your own safety, i wish you keep your criticism of Kannada and Karnataka low. Doesn't it ever occur to you that we kannadigas have given our legitimate lands for enjoyment??? It is only due to our big heartedness and accomodativeness have people like Sir M Vishveshwariah (of Telugu origin) have settled down and contributed to our Kannada nation.

Why shouldn't Kannadigas fight for their legitimate rights? And why is Article 16-18 of the Constitution not applicable to the Army?

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Well, Hindi too is no better

silkboard - 30 May, 2008 - 19:37

In the picture you posted, except for the bit for toilet ('shauchalaya'), Hindi too is all transliteration. See drop off/pick up. But the thing about Hindi is that it has no real 'owner' that will feel offended and take up the 'cause' :)

Hindi no good either

santsub - 30 May, 2008 - 19:40

SB even parking is not hindi its transliteration - BIAL needs consultants from Kannada and Hindi depts to get the words right :)

 At least can we go and correct them to get Kannada right >>>??

 

hindi

tsubba - 30 May, 2008 - 19:48

i think we need to lay off bial's back as far as language is concerned. they have done above par on kannada. their website even has a namaskara. trust a european to understand call of the locals. check hial,mial,dial etc.. they got boorNaas to show for local. every single board i have seen at bial has kannada script, perhaps the words are english but the script is kannada. and lets face it, nobody ever says naan sauchalaya hogbeku. paaykhaane, ucche huyyakke/kakkas/sandas/mukha toLoyoke hogbeku perhaps. but nobody says sauchalaya. but bathroom hogbeku is pretty common. if bathroom works. use bathroom. what is the big deal? atleast the script is in kannada. like all airports in the country, they need to implement hindi mandatorily. MoCA has special awards for hindi implementation at airports. if a few texts here and few there earns them brownie points with MoCA then we should not begrudge them. also, more importantly remember we are a part of a union in which devanagari script and sanskrit words are the defacto sources of vocabulary. as long as kannada is there we should be ok. lets face it nobody will ever read either the hindi or the kannada boards. its mostly psychological operations. but i can appreciate the value in that.

Hindi Prachar Sabha?

tango08 - 30 May, 2008 - 20:10

TS

BIAL is a public-private partnership and is a profit making enterprise. It is not a charity project of the Hindi prachar sabha, is it? So what's wrong in expecting BIAL to demonstrate cultural sensitivity to the people of the land where they will make their profits from? Ok, there might be so called "regulations" designed to impose Hindi, but can't they ensure basic compliance by having Hindi signage in a smaller font while giving primacy to English and Kannada? What is the point in going overdrive?

 P.S: I saw signage that were exclusively in Hindi/English not only in the BIAL territory, but also on NH7 at some distance from the trumpet interchange.

Hindi singage at BIAL

tango08 - 30 May, 2008 - 19:29

The overzealous use of Hindi at our new airport is really revolting. There are signboards that are exclusively in English/Hindi. Where there is Kannada signage, it is mere transliteration like the one below. It is obvious that their intention is to hurt local sentiments.

Namesake Kannada Signage

If BIAL is so hell bent upon shoving Hindi down our throats, why not rename UDF (User Development Fee) as HDF (Hindi Development Fee) and send the bill to the cow belt states?

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