1. Ethno centric and linguistic fanaticism
pursued with a massive mass mania is a deadly combo and dangerous trend, even
if it increases our pride in our ancestry, especially when it tries to intrude
into every realm of human activity. Probably it can or may back fire as it happened with the European
religious fanaticism which was broken by the age of reason, scientific temper,
trade and commerce etc a combined counter combo, which all got together, and
literally threw away the religious fanatic imposition and intrusion into all
realms. So much so, when thrown out the religious fanaticism lost its relevance
and its fortresses turned into museums of antic value. Most of these citadels
of power, pride and pomp in the past are now protected and promoted as tourist attractions as heritage centers or monuments and
in some cases where they have lost even this relevance and respect are being
used as lovers’ parks or lotus-eaters joints.
2. Resurrection, repair and remodeling can never
replace the robustness of the original.
3. ‘Madisaru mami kalaiyil kondaiyil poovaithu
kolamita kalai kandu kavithai pirandhadhu’ can never bring out the essence
however well or expertly it may be translated in any other language in the globe.
4. I observe,language too evolves in contexts to name
new things, to label new activities and to fulfill the need for injecting new
meanings for expressing feelings and emotions hitherto unexpressed verbally
etc.
5. I feel it has more to do with the
socio-cultural milieu in which the interaction or communication happens; the
socio- cultural milieu in which the language got churned up during it evolutionary
process and also the predominant factors that contributed to the growth of that
language.
6. Some languages have too many words and expressions
for religious activities; some have similarly for philosophical concepts; some
have similarly for nature; some have
similarly for technology; some have
similarly for winter sports and snow;
some have similarly for food etc
7.
Like
everything else language too is more susceptible to these factors contextual
utility, socio cultural acceptability and to cater to the necessities that
arise in a new environ [like words that have cropped up after the advent of
cyber world]
8. I do not think this requires an elaborate
thesis to establish.
I wish you read fully these links that I have
been writing in the past few days and give a feed back in this link has
reference to some other in links in it
The following links were written of course for
an unwanted raging controversy in the past week in India
9. On19th Nov.
10. On 22nd Nov.
11.
On 23rd Nov.
The factors contributing to the greatness of
Sanskrit are too many to enlist but primarily they could be classified as:-
a. Its ancientness,
b. Its great structure,
c. Its flamboyant syntax,
d. Its enormous literature [many yet
unearthed],
e. Its multiple layers of meaning- its
ability to express one thing on the surface while ensconcing something esoteric
for the perceptive interpreter with a profound
knowledge unraveling the multiple layers of meaning as Mike Magee mentions in http://www.shivashakti.com
[This fact I feel has not yet been fully
explored especially from texts like Devi Bhagavatham]
f. Its geopolitical life- Most importantly
the geopolitical influences which did a great damage to Sanskrit as excellently
written by the great scholar Rajiv Malhotra almost a decade ago
in this link which I have been repeatedly posting in my facebook page
Some interesting links
16. Any
language survives based on its relevance at specific times and that in turn
depends on too many factors which cannot be oversimplified or over generalized.
