Ashamed of being an Indian? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Hindi as a national link language? || Acharya Prashant, with IIT-Ropar (2022)

Transcript

00:00In the North, there is such a deep inferiority complex that kids are encouraged to learn German or Spanish,

00:07even Chinese these days, compared to Tamil or Telugu or Bengali or Udiya or any Indian language.

00:14We call ourselves Indians, but we are deeply ashamed of India.

00:17In the South, Hindi has largely been accepted.

00:20But what do you want them to do? You want them to stop speaking Kannada and completely switch to Hindi?

00:27Is that the kind of vicious and infantile idea you have?

00:32Won't you look into the mirror and ask yourself, how much of Kannada do I know?

00:37Right now, when people in Delhi talk of Hindi as a national language or a link language,

00:44it makes the people in South both insecure and also resistant, angry,

00:49because they are seeing the kind of discrepancy and imbalance.

00:53There is no reciprocity, and I will side with my countrymen from the South.