Hindustan Times
Let me correct myself. Hindi is not our national language. It is just an official language, which the architects of the Constitution thought would gradually replace English in 15 years time. Read more
(6 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sunita Aron on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Constitution, Deoband, english, hindi, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, national language, post Independence, Raj Thackeray
I don’t remember when I last sung Vande Mataram. Try and remember. Not many of you would have sung the national song since you left school. There is hardly any occasion to sing Vande Mataram. All one gets to hear and hum perhaps is Lata Mangeshkar’s Vande Mataram or AR Rehman’s Maa Tujhe Salaam on one of the FM stations these days. Read more
(5 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sunita Aron on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Filed under India · Tagged AR Rehman, congress, Durga, Jamiat Ulema-I-Hind, Jesus, Lata Mangeshkar, Maa Tujhe Salaam, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, Mother Mary, SP MLA Abu Azmi, Vande Mataram
Those were the days when the goons of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena were bullying and bashing up the North Indians in Mumbai. A friend from Texas sent me an email sharing the revolutionary step taken by a school to break racial barriers.
Why can’t you ape our schools? How can geographical, linguistic or communal barriers stay in an era of online communities? Read more
(6 votes, average: 4.83 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sunita Aron on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Filed under India · Tagged MacArthur High School, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, Mumbai, online community, technological barriers
