![]() ![]() ![]() It is certainly true that the younger generation of Bollywood actors generally prefer Roman to Devanagri. What an individual Facebook message in the film Masaan proves is doubtful – to me, all it shows is that the character didn’t have the Hindi font installed. Is the Roman script crowding out Devanagri in popular use? Daniyal cites a number of examples to support this novel argument. Most absurd is the claim that Hindi is becoming a “kitchen language” used informally rather than officially: the official use of Hindi has, in fact, grown rapidly since Narendra Modi took office – and certainly not in the Roman script. If what is meant is literature in modern Hindi-Urdu, rather than other, older variants, then one can hardly claim that Kaithi was the dominant "Hindi" script before 1900 – since Hindi, as we know it today, didn't exist at the time. It is not true that Sanskrit had died out as a spoken language by the time it became a written one – how else did Kalidasa write his plays for performance? Daniyal accuses Hindi of clinging “to all that is old” while acknowledging that its use of Devanagri is comparatively recent. "Hindi-Urdu" literature goes back centuries before Chandrakanta (unless one ignores all literary forms other than the novel), written in a number of scripts, but not in Roman. “Hindi”, as we know it today, is an invented language, that was standardised only in the 20th century. Language, script, literature Daniyal makes a number of errors. #RAAG DARBARI TV SERIAL YOUTUBE FREE#But Daniyal’s eccentric quest to prove that the country should follow Rahul Gandhi’s choice of script was too free with both facts and logic. Some of Gandhi’s detractors, predictably, took his use of Roman script as further evidence of the hold of Rome over the Congress party’s First Family. Shoaib Daniyal is right: many of those who mocked Rahul Gandhi’s parliamentary “cheat sheet” were guilty of conflating language and script. ![]()
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