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Mother ,the word which is very hard to describe in few words. Even Wikipedia,the biggest online Encyclopedia is confused about the exact definition of this word, As per Wikipedia,A mother is a biological and/or social female parent of an offspring. Wikipedia continues, Because of the complexity and differences of a mothers’ social, cultural, and religious definitions and roles, it is challenging to define a mother to suit a universally accepted definition.

And As per Oxford the Language means ?

1. The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.

2. The system of communication used by a particular community or country. And almost after every some kms of walk one can find the different language had been used by the localites

In short,I want to say there is a link between the mother and language/mothertongue.

As you people might have heard about the story of a teenaged guy who has called GOD to know about the importance of a Mother.

The story goes like this:-

A teenage boy asked his mother that why is she crying and her mother gave an answer that because “She is a woman”

But boy didn’t understand what exactly is she trying to say,so he asks her mother that he doesn’t Understand.

His Mom just hugged him and said,

“And you never will, but that’s O.K.”

Later the little boy asked his father,

“Why does Mom seem to cry for no reason?”.

“All women cry for no reason,” was all his Dad could say…

The little boy grew up and became a man,

still wondering why women cry.

Finally he put in a call to God and when God got back to him, he asked “God, why do women cry so easily?”

GOD answered… ..

“When I made woman,

I decided she had to be special.

I made her shoulders

strong enough to carry

the weight of the world, yet,

made her arms gentle enough to give comfort…

I gave her the inner strength

to endure childbirth

and the rejection

that many times will come

even from her own children.

I gave her a hardness

that allows her

to keep going and take care

of her family and friends,

even when everyone else gives up, through sickness and fatigue without

complaining. …

I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all

circumstances. Even when her child has hurt her badly.

And same is the case with the Importance of a mother tongue.The mother tongue is the true vehicle of the mother wit.

Another medium of speech may bring with it a current of new ideas. But the mother tongue is one in which a man is born. A man’s native speech is almost like his shadow, inseparable from his personality but in last few years,mother tongue is losing importance  day by day and after few years I have doubt that very little person may even talk in mother tongue ( specially so called the urban and modern population). Indians, these days preferred to use English instead of Hindi citing the reason that English gives them more exposure and easy to get a job.Britishers left India some 60 years back but still we shy to use our mother tongue  freely.

Is it the real freedom or only a physical freedom?Arent you people feel that still we are mentally slaves of Britishers? May be its an effect of globalization but still many European countries and many other developed countries like China,Russia,Japan etc. are maintaining their own language very well. But in India,we Indians are doing our best to disrespect our mothertongue by giving very stupid excuses that for a development of India we have to use English Language. If those countries(non-english) can developed,Why cant India?

Someone once said that When the whole world is switching over to English, Mr. Vajpayee has shown disrespect to it by addressing the U.N. in Hindi, which no other Indian PM had dared to so far. Leaders of many countries such as China, Japan, Russia, France, Germany and Spain address the international forums in their own national language. Do they all disrespect English by doing so?

But we Indians always give an excuse that for the better development Of India we need to use English.Why so? But still there are many states in India like Maharashtra,Gujarat,Karnataka and whole of south India prefers their mothertongue.Arent the South India is more developed as compared to North India?And if we compare Jammu(so called educated,urban,modern society of Jammu) with other cities,its very shameful that we cant even standup with them in giving repect to our mothertongue.

As per UNESCO,a research have shown that children who begin their education in their mother tongue make a better start, and continue to perform better, than those for whom school starts with a new language. The same applies to adults seeking to become literate. This conclusion is now widely implemented, although we still hear of governments that insist on imposing a foreign language of instruction on young children, either in a mistaken attempt at modernity or to express the pre-eminence of a social dominant group.

Few lines of Mahatma Gandhi:-Polak and I had often very heated discussion about the desirability or otherwise of giving the children an English education. It has always been my conviction that Indian parents who train their children to think and talkin English from their infancy betray their children and their country. They deprive them of the spiritual and social heritage of the nation, and render them to that extent unfit for the service of the country. Having these convictions, I made a point of always talking to my children in Gujarati. Polak never liked it. He thought I was spoiling their future. He contended, with all the vigour and love at his command, that, if children were to learn universal language like English from infancy, they would easily gain considerable advantage over others in the race of life. He failed to convince me.

As per Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,(who introduced the Transcedental Meditation technique and related programs and initiatives, including schools and universities with campuses in several countries including India, United States, Mexico, United Kingdom and China) Mother tongue is the Language of Nature, which is intimately related to the individual because it is structured and upheld by local Laws of  Nature, which structure the physiology of the individual. Vedic Language is the Language of Nature, which is structured and upheld by the universal Laws of Nature, which are the common basis of all the physiological structures in the universe.

This means that there is a direct relationship of the whole with the part — between the mother tongue and the Vedic Language. This means that mother tongue is the closest to the Vedic Language.?

But my question here to every single Dogra is that When we start giving respect and importance to our mother tongue. Do we realize how important the mother tongue is? Without language you would have to talk to one another by means of signs. If you had a headache and you wanted to tell your mother about it, you would have to use signs, such as pointing to your head, or your eyes. You mother would not be able to tell at once if you meant you had a headache or your eyes hurt you. And the problem is with us that we prefer to use other languages instead of our mother tongue.Why step motherly behavior with our mothertongue whichever it is Dogri,Gojri,Pahadi,Poonchi,Kishtwari etc.?Is it so because our mothertongue too doesn’t demand anything from their speakers but use to cry from inside.

Its really a shame for the Sons(speakers) like us who  treat our mother language as their step mother language.We don’t deserve to be live in that  place where we don’t have any respect for our mother language and motherland.Do we?

Thanks.