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….