Today’s
Arunachal Pradesh is so much confused, the language she speaks, the cuisine she
eats, the wardrobes she wears, everything. Literally everything. Many of them
called it as developing or progressing and many are divided into happy and not
happy about it while others have no idea what is going on!
Firstly we
are so much bollywoodised; the Indian television has drastically changed us to
good as well as bad. In the early ’90s, every parent wanted their children to ‘talk
Hindi, walk Hindi’ and by mid-’90s another generation of parents wanted their
Children to ‘talk English, walk English’. By the end 90’s or early 20’s the mid-generation caught up with koreanisation. The K-Pop Culture. These too with the
pirated Korean films at the dumped old shops with music boxes and Hollywood
films all pirated, they didn’t even spare Bollywood or say anything that is/was
motion picture.
The process
of learning through Bollywood is so cursive that you will find people trying to
speak in the Punjabi accent, Delhite Hindi or even what they call Tapori, the
street language of Mumbai resented by many but widely imitated by many as
humorous and comical. People who have lived or studied in central India or
mainland India flaunt with their mixed Hindi accent of UP, Bihari, Delhite,
Punjabi etc. Whereas the larger population of the Arunachal Pradesh have caught up
Hindi speaking through the Television. The Television with Bollywood has had
so much inscribed into the veins of people here that today Arunachal People are
best Hindi Speaker in North Eastern India.
Wait. Just
a minute. Did I just mention ‘Best Hindi Speakers’? Nah! Ours is a Hindi
without any grammars. We have grammatically deprived Hindi speakers. And some of
us already boosts we should promote “Arunachali Hindi” we have rappers, singers
as well as movies in so-called ‘Arunachali Hindi’. So here is a lame argument - ‘
There is no problem in doing so, the language should pass and must be
understood by the common people as well state Arunachal Pradesh itself is so
multi-diverse state, that you will find different dialect with different
accent every 30mtrs you walk in the state’ as well creativity has no
boundaries.
Now the
problem is - we are heading towards extinction. As plain as that; Leave the
data provided by the UNESCO. We are witnessing it ourselves every day with
every generation. More than half of the
young population is shamelessly trying to show off with their blatantly wrong Spoken
Hindi and English through different mediums. Whereas the developed side of the world’s
society through their organizations, NGOs, missionaries, even foreigner came,
still comes to learn our Language, our dialect and they are working hard to
protect and preserve it while we still bastion on the Hindi and English.
It’s high
time Arunachal Pradesh wakes up. Through
observation, Television is the best platform to mend this pain point in keeping
our local dialect intact. The Local Filmmakers, Local Artist including
singers, rappers, writers must feel their responsibilities. Remember
‘originality always remains the best’. You got the best and greatest medium to
promote local dialects through your films and songs. Universities need a more
focussed group. Mere research just for the thesis may fetch you a degree but if it
is not useful for the society then it has no value. Therefore Researchers needs
to uphill in this field and bring out some revolutionary mechanism to preserve
and promote the dying dialects. Don’t let us extinct.
Before we
or our coming generation just read and study, about our dialects, our culture
in gunged Museums or a textbook. We strap our boots. Make it our
responsibility by speaking our own
dialects at home, with friends and start teaching our younger ones. Let us start
making videos, films, and write songs, on our dialects and keep alive our
mother tongue spoken by our great grandparents and let not our dialect die.
Let us BE ORIGINAL
