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| Mar 09, 2009 12:59 pm |
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re: Hindi nahin maloom |
Nagarajan Vadivel
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You are better than me. You chose to remain in Chennai and dare not to cross Basin Bridge. I had to go and work in Delhi in 1970 without knowing a single word of Hindi. I still remember the waiter in the India International Center talking to me in Hindi and when I told him I do not know Hindi then he asked me whether I know English.
Due to my work i traveled very frequently and even after 39 years even today i do not know even a single word of Hindi. If any one speaks to me in Hindi I resigned to the point that he is not interested in communicating to me.
Yes since in India (may be the only country) 100% of the graduates know English (of questionable standard) one may manage, unless the other person prefer to talk to you in a language you cannot understand. For six years I attended Board meetings regularly in Varanasi (best Hindi by any standard) and for the past four years I go to Kolkatta (most of the deliberations will be in Bengali)
Only Tamils are exceptional. At the cost of their own language they prefer English without realizing that English is spoken by only 3% of the population. The largest English speaking population lives in china and I had the experience that most of the Chinese mug 100 English words to converse with English knowing people.
I have traveled to seventeen countries and I noticed that the local language is the main mode of communication. My experience is that if you cannot know the local language whether Hindi, Bengali you will be disadvantaged. Of course if you are a business person (last month I met a person from Argentina) you can engage an interpreter or a friend to translate. I do not vouch that if you know Hindi you will be able to manage outside your own state without any difficulty.
Nagarajan Private Reply to Nagarajan Vadivel (new win) |
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