![]() ![]() Why is my social status, my background or even my upbringing judged on what particular language I speak? Why is speaking Urdu or English to our children considered a sign that we are educated, and speaking Punjabi is a stigma, a telltale sign of being uncouth, illiterate, uncultured, unrefined -my anguish forces me to blurt out more derogatory epithets to vent my catharsis. I abide by it fanatically to use Urdu or English at formal platforms but a few Punjabi words I use to add colour to otherwise dull and drab activities of English to Urdu translation of a text. OpenSubtitles2018.v3 Sorry honey, theres just no way I can take a whole evening of cocktail party chitchat. I cannot understand why we feel insecure and inferior while speaking our mother tongue. You bell me, say you want to talk about something important, and now youre sitting having a chitchat Tu mapelles, tu me dis quil faut que tu me parles dun truc important, et maintenant tes assise là, à me raconter ta vie. It is ingrained in our students that speaking English is a sign of intelligence and brilliance. Once a student asked me whether my English are also weak. ![]() The same arguments that I gave to my daughter, had been put forward assertively then, but the school management was shockingly paranoid against the use of Punjabi words, and sustained its objection. All this is just a facade and a manoeuvre to mint money!īeing myself a teacher of English, once at an English medium school, the only complaint against me was I used Punjabi words, though quite sparingly. Once, my daughter made us purchase a Punjabi outfit provided by the school itself. I reminded my daughter that last year she danced with her friends to a Punjabi song at some school function ‘’Ballay ballay ni tore Punjaban di’’, is it allowed then? Schools hold cultural programmes to highlight the cultural variety and the importance of various local cultures. I involved her and other siblings in polemics that if we can use English words while speaking Urdu, why we can’t use Punjabi ones in Urdu. Upon my inquisitive prodding, she surprised me that her school teachers and friends always ridicule the one who speaks even a single word or phrase of Punjabi. Once during a chit-chat with my daughter, a student of grade two, I interjected a Punjabi word in a moment of glee, she abruptly and victoriously objected to it. Why is speaking Punjabi at educational campuses deemed uncivilized? Being a native language of a large population in Punjab, it must be given its due status.
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