On the ongoing destruction of Hindi language in India by English, and by despicable Indians

Examples showing how English is replacing Hindi manywhere, and is also getting mixed with Hindi, thus adulterating/polluting Hindi.

• This blog and my other blogs. All in English. Why? Hindi language computer keyboard isn't widespread. Reason is basically habit.
• The Ghazi Attack movie. More here.
• The song "Haseeno Ka Deewana" in the movie Kaabil is in Hindi, but why are Hrithik, Urvashi, and others speaking exclusively in English when describing the making of this song? Who are they trying to impress? Does it lower their status if they speak in English? Further, in the lyrical version of this song, why are all the lyrics written in English? This is a Hindi song and can't Indians who understand spoken Hindi also understand written Hindi?

Update [23-Apr-17]: Whoever SOB has created/written this ad has carelessly mixed English words with Hindi text. Examples include "refreshing", "hectic", "lifestyle", "fresh", "taste", "body", "hydrate", etc. Further, this is an ad in a Hindi newspaper. Why is there English text here ["100% Tender", "No Added Sugar", etc.]? Lastly, why is the product packaging in English alone? Are we still a colony of Britain?

Update [23-Apr-17]: Hindi movie posters have almost completely omitted the use of Hindi and Urdu languages. Everything these days is written as if everyone understands English, and as if we're now an English nation. So it was good to see the use of at least some Hindi in this recent wallpaper of a new movie.

Update [18-May-17]: Why do medicines have text written in only English? Can everyone read English? What about those crores of who are poor and couldn't get to learn the language of the British?

Update [12-Jun-17]: More examples of careless usage of English words in Hindi newspapers.

Update [18-Jun-17]: Two examples for the replacement of several Hindi versions of otherwise English words by English words. For 'America', earlier Hindi newspapers used to write "अमरीका" [Amreeka], but now newspapers lazily write "अमेरिका" [America]. Similarly with "मचीनों" getting replaced by "मशीन्स".

Update [1-Jul-17, 5-Jul-17]: More.

Update [13-Sep-17]: Looking at the image below, it seems that there are some black sheep at various newspapers. It's these dirty sheep which uses English words in Hindi newspapers. Others seem to be doing fine.

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Update [7-Sep-18]: The 2018 Bollywood movie Stree has tried to prioritize Hindi over English, which is a good thing. Text, dialogs, etc., are more Hindi than other contemporary movies, although not completely in Hindi, probably for "practical" reasons. Nonetheless, a good step.

Update [Oct'18]: More and more direct English being used in Hindi newspapers - what a shame!

Update [30-Nov-18]: Indian government regularly sends unsolicited spam emails with no option to unsubscribe. But that isn't the point. The Hindi used in their emails isn't chaste. Which a shame. It says 'train' instead of 'railgaadi'. And so on.

Update [14-Oct-19]: Even if this rumored 1,000 rupee note [received on WhatsApp] is fake, it's troubling and insulting to India that the currency note has English above Hindi, and also that some text is only in English.

Update [20-Apr-20]: ICMR letterhead, though not perfect, is still better. Hindi on top, in bigger font than English.

Update [5.6.22]. One of the worst pseudo-Hindi ads to appear in a Hindi newspaper. Not only are they diluting, corrupting and harming the Hindi language, but they're also indirectly suggesting that "old" clothing should be thrown out in favor of "bold" clothes, thus silently attacking traditional Indian clothing too.

New bullshit drama is going on - everyone is writing using hashtags - as if everything is a punch line! [COMPACTIDEA]

First people went mad using the shortened SMS language. Now these sheep are going crazy with hashtags. As if adding a hashtag to their shitty words makes those worthy and important. Low life scum people.

Normally, it would be "More Indian than you think.". But because of this new fad, this new hashtag-fever, everything is "hashtagified"!

The feel comes from knowing and realizing that you're physically there (and being there), and not just because of the quality of the view

A related idea about the mental effect of physically being in a remote geographic location.

Is this place/view of Mars by itself more beautiful than similar places/views on Earth? No. It's more beautiful because we know it's Mars. If we're told that it's Earth, it'll immediately become "ordinary". Similarly, standing at this place, one person is told that it's Earth and the other told it's Mars. The Mars guy will get a great feeling knowing that he's on Mars. The Earth guy will get good - but not great - feeling.

The idea is that the same place/view becomes much more interesting when we realize that we are physically standing at that remote, far-off place, even if the raw quality of the view isn't so good.

Another example. Standing in the middle of a desert in the UAE and standing in a desert in Rajasthan. The deserts look identical, but when you're [an Indian] standing in the UAE desert, there's this exciting, exotic feeling that you're standing in this remote part of the world, the Arab world. Not so exciting back home at Rajasthan, even if the views are identical. Conversely, for a non-Indian, India might feel exotic and exciting.

Two [related] generalizations that can be derived from this:

1. "Being there" and realizing that "I'm there" creates the excitement, even if the view isn't as spectacular.
2. A good thing in someone's else hands/land will usually feel more exciting/exotic/attractive than a good/great thing in one's own hands/land. So if I am A and I own X1 and there's a B and he owns an equivalent X2, then it's possible/likely that I'll find X2 more attractive/exotic [than X1] while B will similarly find X1 more exciting/luring than X2, merely because they're "remote" and "different" for both A and B.

What's wrong with Indian girls and women - why this ever-increasing sluttism and whorism? [COMPACTIDEA]

Earlier we used to see such shameless nudity only from Western females. Now Indian females are copying the same sluttish/whorish Western outfits, packed under the monikers "bold", "choice", "individuality", "freedom", and "empowerment". This is none of these, and it is especially not the very positive word "bold". It's cheap, distasteful, obscene, not beautiful at all, very sluttish and whorish, not in line with our culture and traditions, and instead massively devalues and objectifies these very girls/women. Indian females have steadily gone from off-shoulder to ultra-deep back [or backless] to ultra-deep chest/front to openly displaying their bikinis to now even openly displaying the bra or forgoing it altogether. It's a slippery slope with seemingly no end, except that unlike the number system, there are no negative numbers here and complete nudity is the final zero where things halt and you can't go any further down the shithole [however, if there were negative numbers here, it's certain that the even-attention-hungry Indian females would gladly and swiftly go down there too].

Do these women have no shame left? Or it it the eons-old cat-competition between females which causes them to shamelessly shed more and more of their clothes? To what low will they sink before people become desensitized enough to not reward them with a glance even when they're standing fully naked and begging for attention even more desperately?

Update [22-May-17]: Sonam Kapoor at Cannes.

Update [3-Jun-17]: Jasmin Bhasin [link].

Update [18-Jun-17]: https://www.instagram.com/p/BVCQFpJhu6z/

 

Update [25-Jun-17]: Nia Sharma

Update [27-Jun-17]: Priyanka Chopra. She's one of the biggest ***** in India, and has likely made a significant contribution to making sluttism the new normal.

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Nov'17: 47 year old Gauri Khan exposing cheaply without any shame whatsoever.

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Nov'17: Even A-list stars like Sonam Kapoor seem desperate to expose like B-grade actresses! She isn't beautiful. She's getting attention and coverage only because she's undressing herself.

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The Ghazi Attack is a shitty movie, and more thoughts [COMPACTIDEA]

• I want to spit on the face of whoever made this movie for showing English subtitles wherever dialogs were spoken in Hindi. Who is this bastard? Some British remnant?
• Why so much English used? Is this not intended to be a Hindi movie? You're trying to be a patriotic movie, and yet you relish in using the language of those imperial British bastards?
• Pakistani officers feel better because they speak more Hindi.
• If whoever made this movie thinks that he has made a "global" movie, he's in for a rude shock. This is a low-class movie, which foolishly thinks that it's world-class. Not.
• Currently IMDb has 8.5 rating for this movie. Strengthens my belief that 80% of all people in this world are foolish sheep who are easily impressed with mediocre stuff and who have no understanding of art and quality. These mediocrity-loving sheep get on the "edge-of-their-seats" while watching this trash. Also, this rating makes me doubt IMDb itself [only a few folks have trashed this crap].
• One good thing about this movie was that it provided a much-needed break from all those eager-to-strip Alias and Anushkas and Priyankas. There were practically no females here, and so item songs, etc., were impossible. A nice break.
• Copying "Aye sir" from Crimson Tide and others won't make this nonsense look more sophisticated.
• Had to watch Crimson Tide again to detox and flush my mind from the effects of this garbage.

It's highly unfair for kids to be adopted by homosexual couples, especially gays [COMPACTIDEA]

What wrong have those kids done that they're stuck with a pair where both the folks are either guys or women? Worse, these so-called parents have twisted fantasies and attractions. What's the fault of those kids that they're not able to get the love and care of a father and a mother, the way nature made us? Just because a homosexual couple who can never procreate by definition feel like experiencing parenthood, should we allow innocent kids to be raised unnaturally? It's not just unfair, it's cruel and should be illegal.

Apparently, hardcore feminist actresses of Bollywood are the ones who were raped or molested during childhood [COMPACTIDEA]

Latest one to admit is Sonam Kapoor. Previously Kalki Koechlin and Kangana Ranaut [Jan'19 link] have admitted. Barkha Dutt too has claimed this. Taapsee Pannu and Anoushka Shankar too. Correlation does not imply causation, but in this case it quickly starts to appear that undergoing molestation/rape during childhood likely instills radical feminist feelings in them, plus an intense hatred for males.

Update [Sep'18]: Padma Lakshmi too. This one too is a man-hater.

Why does the world watch US presidential elections so closely and with so much interest [COMPACTIDEA]

• No one in the world watches French or UK or Russian or Canadian or Japanese or German or Australian or Indian elections so closely. US presidential elections are watched closely, by both the power-brokers and the general public from the entire world.
• The reason is not only that the outcome of US presidential elections affect the lives of the people in the rest of the world. No. It's also because US presidential elections feel like a sort of reality show to the general public. The debates, the spit that candidates throw on each other, the revelations, the insults, the suspense, the polls, the advantage of English language, etc., together make for a very entertaining reality TV show from the standpoint of the general public. For the general public, the question isn't as much about the effect on their lives. It's the fun part, the part about betting on a horse and then watching its performance with keen interest. Like watching a cricket match. Or like watching Bigg Boss.
• US knows all too well that the rest of the world closely follows US elections. It can only feel happy about this, since this is yet another way in which US spreads its influence.

Winners of Academy Awards [Oscars] or Nobel Prizes aren't necessarily the best in their respective fields [COMPACTIDEA]

• Frequently, Oscars are politicized. So movies that support Western foreign policy will be awarded, and those that highlight Western crimes won't even be nominated.
• Oscars are inherently biased against non-English movies, since there's only one category/award for such movies. Hence the numerous excellent non-English movies being made all over the world each year hardly stand a chance, at least statistically.
• Nobel Prizes are also politicized to the extent that prominent Russian figures, for example, won't be acknowledged or awarded, just like Oscars are biased against nations which America considers its perennial adversaries. Not to forget lunatic decisions such as the award to Obama, or a lack of award to Mahatma Gandhi [presumably to not humiliate the British].
• Overall, just because a piece of work or a person gets an Oscar or a Nobel doesn't by itself imply necessarily that it is [or he is] the best in its/his respective category. Politics plays a major role. America plays a major role. Hatred of Russia, China, Iran, etc., plays a major role. Xenophobia plays a major role.

The illusion of the greatness of the PetroSheikhs

Many people praise the kings / rulers / sheikhs / sultans of the Arab world for the huge and magnificant structures they create [e.g., Burj Khalifa or the Kingdom Tower], the grand ideas they apparently have [discounting the fact that they employ top global consulting, design and construction firms], the large sums of money they spend, the "big thinking" they seem to have. Nonsense. Nothing great about it, if you analyze carefully.

Digging out oil bestowed upon them by nature, and selling it on the international market and earning money in the process doesn't equal intelligence or greatness. It's called luck. Or chance. Or just an accident. Absolutely nothing marvelous about it. It came to them for free. It was/is valuable for the entire world [like gold]. No brain was required. They didn't do anything about it. Anyone fortunate enough to be sitting upon trillions worth of crude oil like folks in the Middle East would automatically start to have "great" ideas to spend his easily-earned fortune. Let's not develop an illusion that these PetroSheikhs have something special in their brains which we don't. Look at South Korea, Japan, Singapore, etc., to understand what real greatness is - generation of immense wealth and prosperity in the face of considerable natural odds and an absence of natural resources.

Update [26-Sep-18]: Watched these two videos last night, showing opulent Saudi weddings. Big SUVs, lots of gold, luxury watches, top-grade accessories, and so on. Might give you an illusion that these folks are awesome. Nonsense. They're simply spending whatever they've won in the geographic lottery.