Nelson Mandela has rightly said, “If you talk to a person in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart” .
Language is a skill, a skill which is passed from one generation to the other in order to keep the tradition and culture of that tribe or a community alive. But unfortunately that is not the case with our Kashmiri community.Rather than focusing on developing the mother tongue of a child, parents here stresses them to speak in Urdu or English.
Infact in public gatherings, parent forces their children to speak in Urdu, not allowed to utter a single word in mother tongue Kashmiri. This is the mentality that has grown within our community. Parents thinking of building the personality of their children by neglecting the mother tongue are actually building the trouble for them. The fact is that these traits later in the life turns to be a burden for a grown up child, as he finds it really difficult to interact in its own mother tongue, especially while in conversation with Kashmiri speaking elderly and sometimes even with his own peer groups ultimately resulting in lower self esteem and lack of confidence.
The blame is not primarily theirs, but of our system, of our society as whole. It is not only our language which is dying a slow death but same is the case with our culture and tradition. We have forgotten Mehjoor, Haba Khatoon and replaced them with Bohemia And Bob Marley.
Our youth is so much inspired by the injected westernization and have forgotten the values, our identity, our mystic and divine personalities of motherland Kasheer.
The write-up is contributed by class 11th student of Sri Pratap Higher Secondary Institute, Srinagar.
(This is a personal blog and the views expressed above are the author’s own. Kashmir Patriot neither endorses nor is responsible for the same.)
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