What's the problem with Indian media,I just don't get it.Why do they call Bangladesh only Bangla?Bangla is not a name of a country,but a name of a language.Plus there is no unified Bengal in place,so they can's term Bangladesh, "Bangla".Its the trend of every Indian news paper and news channels.
Its like writing,
"Hindi prepares for war against Urdu(Pakistan)"
Dear Leonblack,
You seem to have taken offence at things that you think are wrong and i respect your views.
I also request you to hear out my views (an indian's views).
Pragmatic reasons - Yes our historical linguistical developement has been intricately linked with our society and indians usually think of populations using linguistic references (People in Karnataka are kanada, people in Tamil Nadu are Tamil, I am a Garhwali from Uttarakhand and likewise), considering the fact that we have so many languages and dialects (unlike Bangladeshi people and to a lesser extent Pakistanis who are more or less liguistically homogenous). Even the current scheme of creation of new states is largely tried to be the linguistic (the logic being to enable poor people of India in the villages to communicate with their local government institutions, of which there are many, in a language that suits them and makes there life easy - idea being to remain tolerant to even linguistic minorities whatever be their religion. Remember we were not created based on religion).
Emotional reasons - I had my education in more than one schools and at most schools one of the songs that we used to sing at the top of our voices goes as follows
"MAZHAV NAHIN SIKHATA AAPIS MEIN BAIR RAKHNA;
'HINDI' HAI HUM WATAN HAI HINDUSTAN HAMARA"
(RELIGION DOESN'T TEACH US TO HAVE MUTUAL ANIMOSITY;
WE ARE "
HINDIS" AND HINDUSTAN IS OUR COUNTRY."
Dr Sir IQBAL MOHAMMED
Yes Dr Sir Iqbal Mohammed (one of the benefits of living in a secular country is to be able to claim heritage for all the goodness coming from anywhere and whatever may or may not have been the motivations of respected Dr Sir Iqbal Mohammed, for me and most of my thinking classmates it was a tool for forging a strong and resilient India)
The fact that we have West Bengal as one of our states and they too are called Bangla people in does not mean we want to take over your country (with all due respect). It only means that we find it difficult and illogical to call them West Bangla!!!
If you have anything against, being called Bangla, please communicate this to your government and they can speak to our government and i am sure any instructions from our government will be followed in letter and spirit by our media. As for the common people of India this change cannot be guaranteed since we have a 10000 year plus history that has moulded our personalities and we cannot change ourselves for a foreigner especially since that foreigner takes offence at non-issues and uses a non issue to create unsubstantiated propaganda.
NOW I TOO HAVE MY GRIEVANCE
I also think your signoff is in very poor taste.
"I am "sick" of some people who thinks they have given our freedom.As if we were licking lollipops during that time."
Pls talk direct if you have to. What do you mean by "some people"?
Your inability to talk straight does show how "sick" you are. You are behaving like a bird brain saas/bahu in a stupid saas-bahu serial.
Request the moderators to make this member see reason.
I was writing in a rush of ideas for more then one posts and never intended to hurt anybody in what appears to be pretty stupid mistake. I have suitably amended the relevant post.
