To Rashmun

Rishi wrote:Chennai, thought of as a conservative city, is a bold one in matters of
literature. From the time of Subramanya Bharati, India’s South Asia's oldest living
language has produced a string of stylish poets and novelists.

Why would you want India’s South Asia's oldest living language to replaced by Hindi?

Rishi wrote:Chennai, thought of as a conservative city, is a bold one in matters of
literature. From the time of Subramanya Bharati, India’s oldest living
language has produced a string of stylish poets and novelists.

Why would you want India's oldest living language to replaced by Hindi?

truthbetold wrote:Rishi,
Are you suggesting tamil produced stylish poets and novelists only in the last 100.plus years only?

Has english replaced tamil? The issue was about hindi replacing english as the primary official communication tool.

I just quoted what the writer Arvind Adiga wrote in the recent edition of the outlook magazine. The keywords are "conservative" , "oldest" and "stylish".

Read what he said. I have copied and pasted below.

Chennai, thought of as a conservative city, is a bold one in matters of
literature. From the time of Subramanya Bharati, India’s South Asia's oldest living
language has produced a string of stylish poets and novelists.
Sanskrit is also old like Tamil. But it has not adapted to modern literature in ways Tamil has .

Rashmun wrote:

Rishi wrote:Chennai, thought of as a conservative city, is a bold one in matters of
literature. From the time of Subramanya Bharati, India’s oldest living
language has produced a string of stylish poets and novelists.

Why would you want India's oldest living language to replaced by Hindi?

Would you agree that both Hindi and Tamil would eventually be replaced by English?

Kayalvizhi wrote:Tamil will die in about 150 years as a "useful" language until Tamils have a country. Hindi will live unless Chinese or some other occupy Hindi lands.

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

Rashmun wrote:

Rishi wrote:Chennai, thought of as a conservative city, is a bold one in matters of
literature. From the time of Subramanya Bharati, India’s oldest living
language has produced a string of stylish poets and novelists.

Why would you want India's oldest living language to replaced by Hindi?

Would you agree that both Hindi and Tamil would eventually be replaced by English?

nobody can predict stuff like that. neither hindi nor tamil are on the UN's list of endangered languages. there is no danger of either disappearing in our lifetime, although english will gain increasing prominence in india. meanwhile redirect your strenuous advocacy in favor of hindi into other more deserving causes.

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:whatever.

Rashmun wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:whatever.

I was informed of a futuristic television series about a time when even Mandarin has become extinct. But the English the people speak and communicate with has some mandarin words ingrained into it. When Hindi becomes extinct it will still continue to live in a way because English would have absorbed many hindi words into it. The process for this has already started. For example words like pundit, guru, chutney, etc. I am unsure about the extent of tamil loan words to English now and in the English of the future.

Seva Lamberdar wrote:
It's like throwing out or putting aside the ancient clay pots and pans and replace them with the latest cutlery, china and utensils.

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

Seva Lamberdar wrote:
It's like throwing out or putting aside the ancient clay pots and pans and replace them with the latest cutlery, china and utensils.

it is sad to see you call sanskrit an ancient clay pot.

Seva Lamberdar wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

Seva Lamberdar wrote:
It's like throwing out or putting aside the ancient clay pots and pans and replace them with the latest cutlery, china and utensils.

it is sad to see you call sanskrit an ancient clay pot.

It was a general statement (about replacing the obsolete with the modern) and not meant specifically to any particular ancient language, custom or law.