Bengaluru: Pro-Kannada activists go ahead with crusade against Hindi in metros

Thu, Jul 20 2017 11:07:34 AM

Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Jul 20: In a fresh bout of renewed activism against the so-called imposition of Hindi on Kannadigas, activists have turned their ire against writings in Hindi in Namma Metro stations. A number of boards appearing in Hindi alphabet were seen to have been defaced.

Hindi boards were seen to have been painted black in several metro stations including Peenya, Yeshwantpur, Chikkapete, Jayanagara, and Rajajnagara among others. Only sections of the boards appearing in Hindi were targetted early morning on Thursday July 20.

It is gathered that when some people tried to obliterate Hindi boards at MG Road station of Namma metro, they were taken into custody by security personnel. As per eyewitness accounts, about ten activists came to the M G Road station holding placards and banners in hand and approached the station at about 2.30 am on Thursday. The police personnel posted at the station immediately pounced into action and took the activists into custody before they could do the damage. The placards and banners waved by them resented forcible imposition of Hindi on people living in Bengaluru.

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K B R, Mangala Uru
Fri, Jul 21 2017
NO ONE IS IMPOSING ENGLISH....THERE ARE NO ENGLISHMEN IN INDIA TO IMPOSE ENGLISH....PEOPLE LEARN ENGLISH VOLUNTARILY BECAUSE OF NECESSITY FOR ENGLISH KNOWLEDGE....BUT CENTRAL GOVERNMENT IS IMPOSING HINDI ON US, WHEN THERE IS NO NECESSITY FOR US TO LEARN HINDI.

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Suresh, Mangaluru
Fri, Jul 21 2017
We require one language to keep multi cultural country like India united. Hindi is easiest language and thanks to Bollywood for making it people friendly language. Even Arabs and many westerners speak Hindi language better than me. We can not make Bengali,Bhojpuri,Tamil or Kannada a national language. These politicians getting crazy ideas just before the election to play with emotions of some Kannadigas as a vote bank. "Viparitha kaladalli viparitha buddhi " This is all Doberata by politicians to woo the voters.

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vnayak, Mangalore/Switzerland
Thu, Jul 20 2017
India has 23 national languages not just Hindi. Hindi is spoken in most backward (yet big) parts of India. Hindi literature is less developed than Marathi,Bengali, Tamil etc. Moreover can we imagine Delhi Metro having signs in English,Hindi and Tamil?

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Amith, USA
Thu, Jul 20 2017
Well Done Kannadigas!!! Wipe out North Indians Cow language from Bangalore. Forcing the Cow language on Southern people is because, to facilitates UP BIHARIS and to make them easy to encroach Bangalore.

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Ronald Pereira, Mangalore/Dubai
Thu, Jul 20 2017
Though Hindi is not a national language it is widely spoken and understood by large number of Indians and nobody resented it until it was forced by North Indian politicians. Actually Bollywood should be thanked for spreading Hindi throughout the world. Politicians and narrow-minded non-Hindi speakers are spoiling the trend. We must have our own unifying language besides English and presently it can only be Hindi.

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Amith, USA
Thu, Jul 20 2017
If you want to earn your daily bread, learn Arabic!!! North Indians Cow language didn't help you therefore you are in DXB.

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Shivaprasad Shetty, kateel /dxb
Thu, Jul 20 2017
What an Irony! English is OK for these people but they can not digest Hindi, they should have understand that we the people from Mangalore, Udupi, Kansaragodu and Madikeri are not Kannadigas originally we are Tuluvas and they are Kodavas. But we have been imposed Kannada language since child wood. Because of this Tulu a Dravidian Language like Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada could not grow to that high.

I have a colleague here in Dubai she has born and raised in Blore, unfortunately, she can not speak Kannada only she can understand, I was like we being Tuluvas we know Kannada better than her.

One of my frined said who used to work in Blore that if you speak Kannada with a bus conductor in Blore he is like "Sir Talk me in English I also can Talk in English" I was like LOL..

These people should first go and educate Kannadigas from Bangalore.

Any ways imposing any language on anyone in India is not completely right, sometimes I feel India should have a common language which is originally from India.

Do you guys have anything in Mind??

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M H Rashid, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Thu, Jul 20 2017
" I feel India should have a common language which is originally from India" I totally agree with you, we must have a common language known to all Indians. Here in gulf sometimes we speak in Arabic to the people of our own country as they do not know my language and I do not know theirs.

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MN, Mangalore
Thu, Jul 20 2017
May be after getting flag, Siddu may make Kannada National Language..

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Kiran D Souza, Mangalore
Thu, Jul 20 2017
This happens only when the jobless jokers are supported by the Government which is in power in the state for it's political gains. Demand for separate flag, separate language is the political game which is played by the state government. If anyone go outside of Karnataka or India or within Karnataka itself , people prefer to speak in English or else in Hindi. These brainless people doesn't know what they are doing. These people are enjoying lavish life by the huge money paid by the Hindi speaking people as house rent & doing the drama on the streets. I prefer Hindi or English over any other regional languages, because i myself know the value of Hindi when we go out of the state or abroad.

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Shabeer Ahmed, M'lore-Dmm
Thu, Jul 20 2017
As far as the sign boards are written in Kannada, there should have any problem. There is a chance the travelers from other state confuse due to non availability of languages other than Kannada.

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N.M, Mangalore
Thu, Jul 20 2017
As per Article 343 of the Constitution of India, Hindi is ONLY one of the 22 official languages of India. Hindi imposition is illegal and unacceptable in non-hindi speaking states as it's NOT a National language. Currently there are 22 scheduled / official languages in India and we DO NOT have a National Language.

Please check facts before commenting.

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Vincent Rodrigues, Bengaluru/Katapadi
Thu, Jul 20 2017
Hindi is our national language

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Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai
Thu, Jul 20 2017
One should think that only because of English language lacs of youth n their families r prospering in the IT industry n by virtue of it Bengluru got the title "Silicon Valley of India"!!

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Richard, Shirva/Dubai
Thu, Jul 20 2017
National Language becomes when all accepts(except tamils..they still thinking of LTTE)
In India majority citizens use Hindi as common language to other languages...so it can be termed and stated as NATIONAL LANGUAGE.... any problem?!!

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Satya, Mangalore
Thu, Jul 20 2017
What is the problem if sign boards have 3 languages Kannada, English and Hindi. Why blame a language for the stupidity of politicians and those from the north with vested interests. Bangalore is a metropolitan city with people from all over the country visiting. These so called self appointed kannada activists are only damaging the interests of kannada language.

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JOY CASTELINO, MOODUBELLE/DUBAI
Thu, Jul 20 2017
As long as there Kannada board in the Metro, what is their problem in Hindi board. Whether anybody forced them to not read Kannada board or read only Hindi board ??????. If they don't like Hindi board, just ignore the board, why this drama??????????????.

If they so concerned with the Kannada, they should send their children to Kannada school & make sure that all Kannada students get the jobs in Karnataka. Will they do this ???????

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Dinesh, Dubai
Thu, Jul 20 2017
those who are fighting for kannada they are "Bavi olagina Kappe" even in karnataka there is no value for kannada just check in bangalore city how many of speaking kannada...

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Sachidanand Shetty, Mundkur/Dubai
Thu, Jul 20 2017
Surprisingly these people don't have any problem with "Hing_English"!!!

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paddu, mangalore
Thu, Jul 20 2017
why they dint touch to "english " name?. english is our mother tongue?.. comapre to english hindi is much better... we can see so many similarity in hindi and kannada.. and shares the same culture.
But english is imported language and it is keep on destroying our kannada language.
If the poeple are so interested to save our language first fight against "english" and fight for compulsory primary education in kannada medium.

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praveen, mangalore
Thu, Jul 20 2017
They have defaced Hindi and left out English... This says they want to divide India now in the name of language.

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Rizwan Ullal, Dubai
Thu, Jul 20 2017
What a shame, Hindi is our national language....if kannada in our blood we should consider hindi in our heart..

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Richard, Shirva/Dubai
Thu, Jul 20 2017
well said Rizwan Ullal, Dubai.Hindi is national language.

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Karan, Mangalore
Thu, Jul 20 2017
Who told you that Hindi is our national language? All languages are national language in India.

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Af,,, Mangalore
Thu, Jul 20 2017
Hello Rischard/Rizwan
First: You people do not know why hindi is not allowing in karnataka, first hindi is not our national lanuage no where it is said, but widly spocken, and easy to talk but difficluty to read and write for kannada people,
Sencondly : Centre is slowely converting kannnda langauage into hindi every office and day to day life, and give employemnt opprutunity to outsiders, why we shud accept that?
if you go outside karnataka can you find kannada board? sameway in karnataka,
english is widly accepted bcos we are all edjucated in english it is a neccesity,
those who want to stay in karnataka better learn kannada, english will be always there,
otherwise onday our future generation will beg in the streets.

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Surendra Poojari, Mangalore
Thu, Jul 20 2017
These idiots are spoiling the name of Kannadigas. Shame on these guys. If there was no Kannada sign board in Bangalore, then they should arrange for the same. Here I find three sign boards namely in Kannada, English and Hindi. What is wrong with these idiots? This shows fake love for Kannada. I strongly oppose these so called hooligans and Karnataka government should take strict action against them. Sad to see Karnataka going Tamilnadu way with regard to hatred for Hindi.

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Vantage Point, Mangalore
Thu, Jul 20 2017
Does govt in cowblelt region allow signboards of Tamil,Kannada,malayalam,Telugu..etc for the benefit of South Indians...
Hindi is not a national language..It is courtesy to learn Kannada if you are earning your bread here..

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Flavian, Mangalore/Kuwait
Thu, Jul 20 2017
N.M.

you are right.
My intention is to ilusidate the importance of having a common language all over India. In GCC Most of the NRI's convrse in Hindi or English with each othr and not in State or mother tongue. What language/script has done to apply black shade over it, other than political aspirations. All the time hate policy is not good.

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John Tauro, M'luru / Kwt
Thu, Jul 20 2017
This is another disintegrating issue like the demand for a separate flag for the state. In what way do these traitors think Hindi is imposed on them? What about Tamil signboards in Bangalore and Malayalam in Mangalore? Hindi is taught freely in Govt. schools. People pay to learn languages like French and German. What harm is there in learning the language in schools? Hindi is the fourth largest speaking language in the world. There is possibility of it being the official language in the UN when India attains permanent seat in the Security Council. If such type of hooliganism in the name of language is allowed to continue, what will be the fate of non-Kannada speaking people in the state?

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Richard, Shirva/Dubai
Thu, Jul 20 2017
Pro-Kannada activists must think that we are Indians first and Karnataka is province so to respect national language with high national spirit to get recognized Kannada along with!!
these thugs to be punished severely to mark ourselves different than tamils, a sole state misguided the tamils by their political leaders for the vote bank politics there..where these tamil leaders sends outside their family members to learn hindi and impose/dictate terms to ban hindi to tamil people ...most of Tamil friends argued this as black mail or discremination...SO BEING KANNADIGAS WE SHOULD HAVE NATIONAL INTEGRITY AND RESPECT MASTER TO GET RESPECT YOURSELF!!

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DPRK, Kundapura
Thu, Jul 20 2017
Keep up the good work spirited KANNADIGAS.

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Shivaprasad Shetty, kateel /dxb
Thu, Jul 20 2017
LOL Kundapura once upon a time Tulu was the main language till Barkur, now they have become Kannadigas !! Can't expect more from you guys ..

Please go and check the History.

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k b r, Mangala Uru
Fri, Jul 21 2017
when was this once upon a time....?

how come tuluvas became kannadigas. i am hearing for the first time this story.

Goans who migrated to mangalore (both hindu and christian) hundreds of years back still speak konkani...

iyengars who migrated from TN to Mysore about 1000 years back still speak Tamil at home...

how come tuluvasa became kannadigas in Kundapur? did British government or any king or any religious person converted them from tuluva to kannadiga?

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Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai
Thu, Jul 20 2017
Karnataka is in a state of the turmoil with issue after issue cropping up.

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A Lobo, Pune
Thu, Jul 20 2017
Regionalism is an antidote to Saffron Nationalism. It will thwart the attempts of pseudo nationalists from proliferating the minds of Kannadigas with their hate filled ideology.

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Flavian, Mangalore/Kuwait
Thu, Jul 20 2017
Watch the Keralites (within or outside India).
With one language irrespective of cast, creed and religion how they are so united and support each other. Non-Malialum eople may say or hate the language but should appreciate their unity in divrsity.

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Flavian, Mangalore/Kuwait
Thu, Jul 20 2017
A frog in the well, what does it know about the outside world?
Some people are still living in primitive mentality. If this fellow goes outside Karnataka, does he think that he would find any Kannada sign boards for his convenience? Try to learn or make some efforts to read/respect Hindi which is our National language.

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N.M, Mangalore
Thu, Jul 20 2017
@Flavian - Hindi is NOT the "National Language" and India does not have a National Language.

As per Article 343 of the Constitution of India, Hindi is one of the 22 official languages of India.

Currently there are 22 scheduled languages in India Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Meitei (Manipuri), Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu.

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Manoj, Mangaluru
Thu, Jul 20 2017
We need one language and one flag to keep us united otherwise India will be worst than Syria and Somalia. How many Kannadigas send their children to Kannad medium school ?. This is all election gimmick

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k b r, mangala uru
Thu, Jul 20 2017
same thing has to be done for Malayaalam signboards here...day is not far off when kudla will be full of 'locals' who know only malayalam....

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Namma Nadu, Mangalore
Thu, Jul 20 2017
Malayalis and tuluvas don't hate each other because of their shared culture,dress,climate , food habbits and historical friendly relations..There are tuluvas living in Kerala too..and there are Kannada signboards too.. we don't hate each other...
Any North Indian languages can't be forced here...it is the topic don't divert it ...

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k b r, Mangala Uru
Thu, Jul 20 2017
food habits...beef?

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Ramesh S, MANGALORE
Thu, Jul 20 2017
..nonsense..for political gain Congress inciting pro kannada activist..karnataka is unique state, we welcomed every one ,every idea, every language, thats how we grown and people spread across globe..look at Andhra/TN/WB, every day agitation, strike based on language..companies running away..it seems present Govt will take us backward..there is no spending on kannada schools, private english schools permitted & mushrooming..pro kannada activism purely political..

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S. Vijayan, Mangalore/Bangalore
Thu, Jul 20 2017
Ramesh, did they come to tell you that they are from Congress party and going to deface boards in Metros ?

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Ramesh S, MANGALORE
Thu, Jul 20 2017
..well, dont you think separate flags fuels this type activism..

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pradeep, mangalore
Thu, Jul 20 2017
Good job.People should also stop watching cricket as it is no more an Indian cricket team but a North Indian cricket team.
They kicked honest people like Kumble out of the team and now even Dravid,along with Zaheer.
They want only matchfixers and yes men like Dhoni.

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Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai
Thu, Jul 20 2017
We don't want to break away from India.
Arrest these Desh Drohis ...

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Unknown, Mangalore
Thu, Jul 20 2017
People from Karnataka are fed up with North Indians because they come to Karnataka and comment against Kannada and Karnataka. If any one speaks against ur mother tongue in their home town obviously ppl ll b get angry. This is reason it all started. Ppl who come to study to Karnataka even if they stay here for 4yrs(eng) or 5.5 years(mbbs) they still don't know to pronounce Kannada. Wt do u tell for these ppl. Atleast they can attempt to speak. Atleast they can attempt or respect our language and our state.So according to ur logic if any one comment against any other Indian language should also b called as desh drohis?? Wt do u say jossey...

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Shivaprasad Shetty, kateel /dxb
Thu, Jul 20 2017
It's totally fine to stay in Karnataka for short period and not learn Kannada it's your choice, but Yeah they should respect the people and the language, I was in Mumbai and nobody asked me to learn Marati there, As I mentioned above ask the Kannadigas to talk and respect the Kannada first. It hardly matters to us Tuluvas frankly speaking.

People were yelling when Malayalam was imposing in Kasaragod but I was like chill its one and the same for us before it was Kannada now Malayalam, we the Tuluvas are literally grinding from both the sides. God knows when this will come to an end.

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Unknown, Mangalore
Thu, Jul 20 2017
I am at mangalore since 10 years and I learnt both Tulu and Konkani to speak and I can understand Malayalam. I did not disrespect Tulu when I fist came to mangalore rather i started learning the language. If anyone start respecting a particular thing they automatically learn. My point is atleast respect the culture when u come from outside.

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