'Hindi Diwas' or Hindi Day??

Hi.. I hope you guys are doing pretty well.

Whenever I think of writing a post here, I don’t have anything on my mind. And when I have many things on my mind, I don’t have words to express. It’s been such a boring week till now. My mind is freezing to a stage.. I don’t even know what actual word I should use for this situation. Feeling like stuck somewhere. Uff.. I don’t know!! Really need a good weekend!!

Now, moving on to what I wanted to talk about.. ‘Hindi Diwas’.

It was yesterday, when I was motivated somehow, to change the language of my Facebook page to “Hindi” on the occasion the ‘Hindi Diwas’. After googling some things out , I came to know, it is celebrated because the Constituent Assembly of India had adopted Hindi written in Devnagari script as the Official Language of the Union on 14th September 1949. Most of occasions/festivals/ or any ‘divas’ doesn’t matter to people like me unless it is a chhutti at work!! ;) But this time, it somehow touched me, may be a little patriotism had shoot in me for ‘Hindustan’s national language Hindi’.

I belong to Punjab, called ‘Punjabi kudi’ by a couple of friends. Still the use of Punjabi was not much in my conversation at school or family or college. I used to speak either Hindi or English. It’s still the same when I am working here in NCR. I remember in school, we were prompted to speak English in all the classes except the ‘Hindi’ and ‘Punjabi’ class. In them, we had to speak that language only. Yes, English was promoted majorly and still is, coz we need to converse in that language globally. But, somewhere, the ‘National Language’ and the ‘Mother Tongue’ of quite a few of us has been lost somewhere.

You won’t believe, when I changed my Language Settings in FB from ‘English(US)’ to ‘Hindi’, I was finding it real hard to read. I am sure I was able to go to my wall and profile etc., coz I am familiar with the normal designing  and 'look and feel' of FB. I even changed back my settings from Hindi to English with a little difficulty. If I wanted to read and go to that particular link in Hindi, I was truly failing. Moreover, when I was on this Hindi FB Page, I even felt like translating it to English with google translator. I was even laughing that I could not understand what is written. Was I laughing at FB in Hindi? Or was it me? My failure to read the language which I actually studied for more than 10 years of my life?

I am really not promoting to speak shudh hindi. It’s just that I myself do not want to forget it. I truly want to be proud when I speak or read it. I hope all of us feel that way.

Ciao.. Keep Smiling.. !!