6 young people, sharing their life and experience with each other for 10 long years, in the city of New York. Yeah, that’s the basic plot of my most favorite TV Show- F.R.I.E.N.D.S …..
I sometimes feel that I too want friends like Ross, Chandler, Joey, Phoebe… & sometimes I unconsciously compare my friends with the characters of the series. I love the way they share their life, happiness and sadness of each-other, with each-other. Actually that’s what friends-best friends- are for.
Right now my life is at such junction, where I don’t know what’s going to be in near future, where I’ll be land up after 2 months, who will be there with me- from my current friend circle. 2 yrs back when I’d joined SICSR, I might be the most nervous student from my batch. I was afraid if I could make any lifelong friends over here as I did in my last college. Will there be someone to whom I could turn for solace on every sad moment?
And today after 2 years, I am thinking, will I be able to meet them again and again, as I used to in these 2 years?? Some of them are already out of contact, due to this Industrial Training, yet in touch with many of them. I don’t know what I am feeling… I’m happy that I’ll be free from all these “tiffin ka khana” and all, but at the same time I’m sad coz I’ll miss coffee-stop and all those thelas out there.
Thanx a lott people… To allow me to be a part of your life… will miss u all a lotttt…..
And this is not like I’ll just miss my college friends. At this point I’m also thinking about my roomies… Had 7 room-mates in the duration of 2 years… They all are special to me- in one way or the other…
And that’s not all… I don’t know if my life gonna be the same in the near future… I made so many virtual friends in this duration of 2 years. I love them all… they all are a major part of my life and thanx to social networking sites, they r almost like my family member. I think I have a li’l family over there, I’ve a kid sis, an elder sis, a big brother, a mausi (sorry prits) and so many friends who are permanent part of my heart. I Love u all people….
Just stay in touch ( I promise I will)….
Love yaa all…
(P.S.: dedicated to whole Uniqs, Devi, Kalyani, Shikha, Sarita and also to VK, Baby, Bhums, Pri, Doc, Kush, Nimz, Dev, Dharu, KP, Bhushanbhai, HP n all of u)
Monday, May 17, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Gujarati Bachao Sanskriti Bachao
Just saw a page on Facebook, named “Gujarati Bachao Sanskriti Bachao”
Now a question came in my mind, “When one needs to save a language or civilization? Simple… When the language or civilization is dying. Now when does a language die… when the language is not getting changed with the time… right??
Why English is so popular today??? Reason is simple; the language has never been imposed upon anyone. You can speak English the way you want; it has so many versions and accents and it keep changing from generation to generation. Today we are not speaking the English which our forefathers were speaking like 20-30-40-50 years back. Apart from that, we use some words which are taken from some Indian language, without any hesitation. Seeing all these, did we hear any Britisher complaining about this??? No… Does it mean that he doesn’t love his mother tongue? Ofcourse he does… but he’s not worried about the changes just because he thinks that his language is not stagnant like ours. They know how to change with the time
And we?????? Today we do use words from other languages, but famous names of literature do not like this. They just don’t want to change with the time and want to pause themselves in that 5th decade of 20th century, which was Golden Period of Gujarati Literature. After listening to the dialogues of today’s Gujarati daily soaps, if you want us, the younger generation to “love” Gujarati, then sorry, we can’t do that. Just because we don’t like that extremely pure Gujarati language, full of jargons which we have not ever heard in our life. By the way, that’s why we hate Shakespeare, for his extremely pure language. Because, it’s not our language, it’s not simple to understand. That language is for CLASS and not for MASS.
Today youth of other states follow their regional language, just because, the literature of that language has changed with the time. Today they have movies and literature, which is the choice of today’s youth, where in Gujarati we have very few writers whose pen speaks language of youth and the rest of them are just opposing them. How can you accept the youth to respect the mother tongue, when the elders do not believe in the growth????
Same is the case with civilization. We keep saying how great our civilization was like 5000 yrs back, but what about now??? Whatever was there 5000 yrs back was perfect and good for that time and not for today. We need to change with time and then only we can be proud of our civilization, not by opposing the changes.
I guess that’s enough for any intelligent person, otherwise both the language & civilization will die…soon….
Now a question came in my mind, “When one needs to save a language or civilization? Simple… When the language or civilization is dying. Now when does a language die… when the language is not getting changed with the time… right??
Why English is so popular today??? Reason is simple; the language has never been imposed upon anyone. You can speak English the way you want; it has so many versions and accents and it keep changing from generation to generation. Today we are not speaking the English which our forefathers were speaking like 20-30-40-50 years back. Apart from that, we use some words which are taken from some Indian language, without any hesitation. Seeing all these, did we hear any Britisher complaining about this??? No… Does it mean that he doesn’t love his mother tongue? Ofcourse he does… but he’s not worried about the changes just because he thinks that his language is not stagnant like ours. They know how to change with the time
And we?????? Today we do use words from other languages, but famous names of literature do not like this. They just don’t want to change with the time and want to pause themselves in that 5th decade of 20th century, which was Golden Period of Gujarati Literature. After listening to the dialogues of today’s Gujarati daily soaps, if you want us, the younger generation to “love” Gujarati, then sorry, we can’t do that. Just because we don’t like that extremely pure Gujarati language, full of jargons which we have not ever heard in our life. By the way, that’s why we hate Shakespeare, for his extremely pure language. Because, it’s not our language, it’s not simple to understand. That language is for CLASS and not for MASS.
Today youth of other states follow their regional language, just because, the literature of that language has changed with the time. Today they have movies and literature, which is the choice of today’s youth, where in Gujarati we have very few writers whose pen speaks language of youth and the rest of them are just opposing them. How can you accept the youth to respect the mother tongue, when the elders do not believe in the growth????
Same is the case with civilization. We keep saying how great our civilization was like 5000 yrs back, but what about now??? Whatever was there 5000 yrs back was perfect and good for that time and not for today. We need to change with time and then only we can be proud of our civilization, not by opposing the changes.
I guess that’s enough for any intelligent person, otherwise both the language & civilization will die…soon….
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