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Sanskrit as Link Language and Devanagiri as Common Script continues...
To avoid being forced to use Gurumukhi they even declared that their language is Hindi and not Punjabi although they spoke the latter. This was out of misguided exuberance-because the Gurumukhi script is very similar to the Devanagiri script, just as the Gujarati script is. Anyone who knows Devanagiri can master Gurumukhi in 24 hours. Yet a senseless agitation took place, followed by an unhealthy polarization process that culminated in Operation Bluestar in 1984, the tragic aftereffects of which we feel even today.
The point is that even if Devanagiri is the most scientific phonetic script ever invented, for practical reasons there is every reason to respect the scripts of other Indian languages. In a calm dispassionate atmosphere which may take decades to attain, young people, especially those entering primary and secondary schools, will learn at least two languages and two scripts: (1) mother tongue and Sanskrit and (2) own script and Devanagiri. In the meantime, Hindi should continue to Sanskritize itself to the point where it becomes almost indistinguishable from Sanskrit. It will then merge into Sanskrit, disappearing excepting in local dislects. Sanskrit was once long ago uprooted from India by Pali. But after some centuries, this versatile language was rethroned by the same process via Mahayana Buddhism. A second rethroning of Sanskrit can now be achieved through Hindi. Till that day, if the three languages formula, which requires northerners to learn one southern language, is sincerely implemented, we can make a steady progress towards the goal of making Sanskrit once again the national language of India. Already 70 lakh students are currently studying Sanskrit, more than 200 universities in 35 countries offer courses in it. It may take years to accomplish that but we must commit ourselves to that goal now. We should also commit ourselves to see that no language, especially Urdu, suffers because of the dominance of Sanskrit. In day-to-day conversations, such languages will continue to flourish.
to be continued....
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