On the Hindi-Urdu debate

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In Bhārata, a language has respect if it gels, melds, coalesces, dissolves in the mileu of itihāsa, purāṇa, saṅgīta, nṛtya and so on. E.g. a Tyāgarāja / Purandaradāsa kīrtana, a Rāmaprasādī gīta earn their respective langs respect and esteem.

They do so by cajoling the listener as though saying "here, you are safe with me, I am your great grandfather's friend. He gave me this treasure to pass on to you." The extremely skeptical listener is moved and he starts trusting the messenger. None of this in Urdu.

Any language and its creations when they strike a deeper chord than the mundane and resonate with our civilizational memory automatically unconsciously and effortlessly earn respect of the "cognoscenti" part of each Bhāratīya's heart. Bhāratīyas have quite good taste.

Why Urdu has never commanded such respect is because their creations haven't struck a deep civilizational chord with the Bhāratīya. Inglees has its redeemers such as Aurobindo. Urdu doesn't seem to have had such ones who at least try to bring the language to empathise with a Bhāratīya mind. Even here, the works of people like Aurobindo do not harmoniously synchronize with our music and dance. It is a great limitation of an alien language which at best can be alleviated not eliminated.

An example of a literary work effortlessly dissolving in our cultural mileu is the recent video of Archana Joglekar.


See how the language renders itself to svara, laya and harmoniously weaves a dreamland of Krṣṇa playing his flute. There are thousands of such Kṛtis that have made Hindī esteemed in the discerning part of a Bhāratīya's heart. If Urdu has to achieve such esteem, its poets have to come up with works that are organically related to our cultural mileu. Chest beating by some deracinated ones that have fallen fr the fake charms of Urdu is to push Urdu's luck too far. It is not a language rooted here. And given the shrillness of its subscribers, it will never be. This is a civilization of a few thousand years. Languages bend to our culture. Our culture doesn't bend to languages.


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