05-03-2007, 09:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-03-2007, 10:02 PM by Bharatvarsh.)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->New Culture: Thus, Telangana was coerced to develop a distinct culture and language in the past 7 centuries under Muslim autocratic rule. The language of Telangana may be termed Turdu, a language dominated by Urdu vocabulary written in Telugu script. While Andhra had developed a Telugu dominated by Sanskrit and English. Even the food habits were influenced by Muslim and Western cultures. Even traditionally vegetarian, yoga practitioners and believers of non-violence like Brahmins in Telangana proudly proclaim that they relish chicken and mutton biryani, a Hyderabad special!
Is it a constitutional stupidity or political suaveness to distinguish and segregate the slaves into forward, backward, scheduled groups when all of them had served under Islamic and Christian yoke for a millennium? Is there any relevance to obsolete Brahmin Manuâs principles in India except to use them as fuel for attacks on Hinduisms by anti-Hindu groups like proselytizing and militant Jihadis and Christians, Pakistanis, communists, leftists, dalit Christians , crusaders and the likes? A millennium of Muslim rule under Shariat and centuries of British rule under common law in India has impacted Indian Jurisprudence. The fact of the matter is that the so-called Hindu law is derived from common law of England and has nothing to do with plethora of ancient diverse regional laws of the Indian Continent. And, of course, Shariat continues to rule!
What about dress? Menâs wear changed long time ago. They gave up their traditional lungi and dhoti and took Islamic kurtapajama and then European dress. Every aspect of life in the society has been influenced, including the genes . One can write several books on each and every individual cultural, physical, genetic change that Indians have experienced. I leave it to cultural mavens, geneticists and anthropologists.
Well, that was all in the past during the horrible millennium of slavery and before! What is happening now? Let us look at a fundamental aspect of culture, the language. I am not a snooty linguist or leftist phony historian to decipher arcane mysteries of language evolution, but let us take a look at it from the perspective of a layman!
In the past 50 years, Turdu speaking Telangana and Telugu speaking Andhra and Rayalaseema in the new democratic state of Andhra Pradesh have developed a new language and culture, of their own sweet accord without any coercion form any autocratic or imperialist rule. Today, the language in Andhra Pradesh is Tenglish, a Telugu dominated by English vocabulary. The words borrowed from English include such fundamental vocabulary like father, mother, brother, sister, wife, family, gender, food, water, milk, rice, air, numbers, home, house, hall, flat, apartment, animals like dogs, cats, etc., verbs and activities like, eat, sleep, make love, sex, love, live, brush, wash, bath, bathe, think, thank etc., fruits, vegetables and flowers like apples, banana, tomatoes, jasmine, roses etc., colors like violet, blue, green, yellow, orange, red etc. Body parts like ears, teeth, nose, hair, skin etc., diseases and conditions like fever, cold, cough, tired, headache etc., body fluids like phlegm, tears, semen, blood etc. replaced the old, archaic and embarrassing words! Words borrowed and modified by English from Telugu like curry, bandicoot etc. are now in Tenglish in their modified English forms. And of course, there are technical terms and inventions that must be borrowed from English or Latin, as Europeans discovered them, like car, bus, train, phone, etc. The list is endless.
By the way, they are replacing only those basic words that were borrowed from Sanskrit and Urdu! It is cyclical, just like life! By the end of the first millennium of Christian era, various kings of this region voluntarily embraced Sanskrit, invited Sanskrit speaking Brahmins from everywhere and by the time Muslims came Telugu was Sanskritized so much that until recently it was considered one of the Indo-European Sanskrit languages. So, some extremist Telugu chauvinists wish to translate (or misappropriate?) technical words for inventions and ideas they didnât know and invent like car, TV, phone, Windows 95, (maybe) Bill Gates etc., into Telugu using Sanskrit vocabulary. If I were a Tenglish or if the Americans had their way, my name would be easily pronounceable "Wealthy-Sir Neem-Bitter " (Sreenivasa-rao Vepa-chedu ) or simply Rich Bitterman! Note that American government tempted me with that opportunity to change my name free of any hassles two times! While educated Hyderabad citizens told my mother that it was inappropriate to use Telugu word annamu and that the proper word was rice at functions in Hyderabad. Sad part of it is that my mother knows more Telugu literature than many of them and yet she is considered uneducated by Tenglish standards. And I have to add that she is now as educated as other Tenglish Hyderabadis are, much to my annoyance and frustration.
Last year when I visited Hyderabad to attend my brotherâs marriage, I went to a barbershop. The barber thought I was a villager visiting Hyderabad! He not only disliked my hairstyle, but also my language! Why? Because I was worse than an uneducated villager! Today, even an uneducated villager uses some Tenglish! Note that Andhra Pradesh is one of the most uneducated and illiterate states in the Indian Union! Telangana is the lowest with less than 36% literacy! Yet, I say bagunnara, they say "havaar yu ?" I say namaskaaramu, they say hello. I say snaanalagadi , they say baathroomu. I say annamu, they say raisu. I say okati, they say van (one). I say uppu, they say saalTu (salt)â¦. Well, you get the idea. I am not talking their language. My language is dead. My language is Telugu. Their language is Tenglish . Good thing about it is that Telugu joined the group of great languages like Sanskrit and Latin! The Tenglish donât understand Telugu any more than they understand Sanskrit or Latin! Actually, you can never express in Telugu sentences like "I love you," "thank you," etc. without feeling extremely awkward! I feel like a Thescelosaurus (vegetarian dinosaur) amongst modern omnivores!
The Benefits: As a matter of fact, life is easier now. I can simply speak English and the Tenglish will understand me better! In every office, Tenglish gets the job done. In every home Tenglish has more currency. I just have to be careful not to be an arrogant American and add a couple of Tenglish words here and there and my English would be very good Tenglish! Anybody can do it, even a Russian who can speak some English! Amazing! Isnât it?
And out of my sheer selfishness, I feel sad because I can't speak anywhere my language anymore. Of course, the bitterness is not only due to my family name, but also due to lack of enough practice of yoga as required by my family tradition to attain Nirvana. Let me digress a little bit here. You see, it requires a minimum threshold level of practice to get the benefit of any process. To get the benefits of meditation one has to meditate at least 40 minutes per sitting. Donât forget that you need to do aerobic exercises for one hour to get their benefits and practice yoga exercises for another hour and then do yoga meditation. Who has the time? Nevertheless, if you want peace and health, you have no choice!
After all, who can stop the tide and control human nature? The Tenglish know better! The Tenglish people of Andhra Pradesh have a unique quality, which makes them the fittest supple and malleable survivors (be careful, I didnât say âspinelessâ) and helps them through slavery and freedom equally! This ability is also responsible for their survival as Hindus for now. At least 50% of the population in Hyderabad City and 70% in Andhra Pradesh is still Hindu (including millions of Dalit Christians that are counted as Hindus), even after 700 years of Muslim rule, much to the chagrin of Gilanis, Osamas, Pakistanis, communists, leftists, and the likes. Although it is a foregone conclusion, but it takes at least another millennium to wipeout all Hinduisms from the Indian Continent , unless Jihadis and proselytizers come up with a better and aggressive plan. Thus the Tenglish technique guarantees Hindu survival for the time being.
This accomplishment also makes the life of an English speaker easier in Hyderabad, at least until English is replaced by another useful language which may not happen until several hundreds of years from now, hopefully. Also, that is why Telugus didnât need a Telugu dictionary until C. P. Brown came along to Christianize (enlighten). They still donât have a Thesaurus, because C. P. Brown failed to prepare one! Even if I want to teach my children my dead Telugu language, I donât have the resources. One great payoff of this is that I donât have to teach my children my dead Telugu at all. They will do better than me in Hyderabad with just English! Now Tenglish people just have to get rid of their script and adopt roman script. Thanks to Internet, it is already happening!
Conclusion: The Tenglish should feel vindicated and proud when they read Jerry Knowlesâ comments in this 1997 article . Tamils would do better if they use Tamglish and stop fighting for Elam in Sri Lanka, and, of course, only if Sinhalese became Singlish. I wish the French were as wise as the Tenglish and scrapped their strict rules related to their language and developed Frenglish! Similarly, Runglish, Spanglish, Itanglish, etc. are better than their counterparts. World would be a better place, if everybody learns the Tenglish way - the best way and the Tao!
avaru Tenglishu madaru ku jasminu gaarlanDu (Jasmine Garland to Our Tenglish Mother)
Better yet,
jasminu gaarlanDu Tu avaru Tenglishu madaru (Jasmine Garland to Our Tenglish Mother)
haava haappi nyu yiyaru! <!--emo&:roll--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ROTFL.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ROTFL.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Sreenivasarao Vepachedu
http://www.vepachedu.org/hyderabad.html<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The last sentences are a Tenglish translation of the famous Telugu saying "Ma Telugu Thalliki Malle Puvvu Dhanda" (Jasmine garland to our mother Telugu).
Is it a constitutional stupidity or political suaveness to distinguish and segregate the slaves into forward, backward, scheduled groups when all of them had served under Islamic and Christian yoke for a millennium? Is there any relevance to obsolete Brahmin Manuâs principles in India except to use them as fuel for attacks on Hinduisms by anti-Hindu groups like proselytizing and militant Jihadis and Christians, Pakistanis, communists, leftists, dalit Christians , crusaders and the likes? A millennium of Muslim rule under Shariat and centuries of British rule under common law in India has impacted Indian Jurisprudence. The fact of the matter is that the so-called Hindu law is derived from common law of England and has nothing to do with plethora of ancient diverse regional laws of the Indian Continent. And, of course, Shariat continues to rule!
What about dress? Menâs wear changed long time ago. They gave up their traditional lungi and dhoti and took Islamic kurtapajama and then European dress. Every aspect of life in the society has been influenced, including the genes . One can write several books on each and every individual cultural, physical, genetic change that Indians have experienced. I leave it to cultural mavens, geneticists and anthropologists.
Well, that was all in the past during the horrible millennium of slavery and before! What is happening now? Let us look at a fundamental aspect of culture, the language. I am not a snooty linguist or leftist phony historian to decipher arcane mysteries of language evolution, but let us take a look at it from the perspective of a layman!
In the past 50 years, Turdu speaking Telangana and Telugu speaking Andhra and Rayalaseema in the new democratic state of Andhra Pradesh have developed a new language and culture, of their own sweet accord without any coercion form any autocratic or imperialist rule. Today, the language in Andhra Pradesh is Tenglish, a Telugu dominated by English vocabulary. The words borrowed from English include such fundamental vocabulary like father, mother, brother, sister, wife, family, gender, food, water, milk, rice, air, numbers, home, house, hall, flat, apartment, animals like dogs, cats, etc., verbs and activities like, eat, sleep, make love, sex, love, live, brush, wash, bath, bathe, think, thank etc., fruits, vegetables and flowers like apples, banana, tomatoes, jasmine, roses etc., colors like violet, blue, green, yellow, orange, red etc. Body parts like ears, teeth, nose, hair, skin etc., diseases and conditions like fever, cold, cough, tired, headache etc., body fluids like phlegm, tears, semen, blood etc. replaced the old, archaic and embarrassing words! Words borrowed and modified by English from Telugu like curry, bandicoot etc. are now in Tenglish in their modified English forms. And of course, there are technical terms and inventions that must be borrowed from English or Latin, as Europeans discovered them, like car, bus, train, phone, etc. The list is endless.
By the way, they are replacing only those basic words that were borrowed from Sanskrit and Urdu! It is cyclical, just like life! By the end of the first millennium of Christian era, various kings of this region voluntarily embraced Sanskrit, invited Sanskrit speaking Brahmins from everywhere and by the time Muslims came Telugu was Sanskritized so much that until recently it was considered one of the Indo-European Sanskrit languages. So, some extremist Telugu chauvinists wish to translate (or misappropriate?) technical words for inventions and ideas they didnât know and invent like car, TV, phone, Windows 95, (maybe) Bill Gates etc., into Telugu using Sanskrit vocabulary. If I were a Tenglish or if the Americans had their way, my name would be easily pronounceable "Wealthy-Sir Neem-Bitter " (Sreenivasa-rao Vepa-chedu ) or simply Rich Bitterman! Note that American government tempted me with that opportunity to change my name free of any hassles two times! While educated Hyderabad citizens told my mother that it was inappropriate to use Telugu word annamu and that the proper word was rice at functions in Hyderabad. Sad part of it is that my mother knows more Telugu literature than many of them and yet she is considered uneducated by Tenglish standards. And I have to add that she is now as educated as other Tenglish Hyderabadis are, much to my annoyance and frustration.
Last year when I visited Hyderabad to attend my brotherâs marriage, I went to a barbershop. The barber thought I was a villager visiting Hyderabad! He not only disliked my hairstyle, but also my language! Why? Because I was worse than an uneducated villager! Today, even an uneducated villager uses some Tenglish! Note that Andhra Pradesh is one of the most uneducated and illiterate states in the Indian Union! Telangana is the lowest with less than 36% literacy! Yet, I say bagunnara, they say "havaar yu ?" I say namaskaaramu, they say hello. I say snaanalagadi , they say baathroomu. I say annamu, they say raisu. I say okati, they say van (one). I say uppu, they say saalTu (salt)â¦. Well, you get the idea. I am not talking their language. My language is dead. My language is Telugu. Their language is Tenglish . Good thing about it is that Telugu joined the group of great languages like Sanskrit and Latin! The Tenglish donât understand Telugu any more than they understand Sanskrit or Latin! Actually, you can never express in Telugu sentences like "I love you," "thank you," etc. without feeling extremely awkward! I feel like a Thescelosaurus (vegetarian dinosaur) amongst modern omnivores!
The Benefits: As a matter of fact, life is easier now. I can simply speak English and the Tenglish will understand me better! In every office, Tenglish gets the job done. In every home Tenglish has more currency. I just have to be careful not to be an arrogant American and add a couple of Tenglish words here and there and my English would be very good Tenglish! Anybody can do it, even a Russian who can speak some English! Amazing! Isnât it?
And out of my sheer selfishness, I feel sad because I can't speak anywhere my language anymore. Of course, the bitterness is not only due to my family name, but also due to lack of enough practice of yoga as required by my family tradition to attain Nirvana. Let me digress a little bit here. You see, it requires a minimum threshold level of practice to get the benefit of any process. To get the benefits of meditation one has to meditate at least 40 minutes per sitting. Donât forget that you need to do aerobic exercises for one hour to get their benefits and practice yoga exercises for another hour and then do yoga meditation. Who has the time? Nevertheless, if you want peace and health, you have no choice!
After all, who can stop the tide and control human nature? The Tenglish know better! The Tenglish people of Andhra Pradesh have a unique quality, which makes them the fittest supple and malleable survivors (be careful, I didnât say âspinelessâ) and helps them through slavery and freedom equally! This ability is also responsible for their survival as Hindus for now. At least 50% of the population in Hyderabad City and 70% in Andhra Pradesh is still Hindu (including millions of Dalit Christians that are counted as Hindus), even after 700 years of Muslim rule, much to the chagrin of Gilanis, Osamas, Pakistanis, communists, leftists, and the likes. Although it is a foregone conclusion, but it takes at least another millennium to wipeout all Hinduisms from the Indian Continent , unless Jihadis and proselytizers come up with a better and aggressive plan. Thus the Tenglish technique guarantees Hindu survival for the time being.
This accomplishment also makes the life of an English speaker easier in Hyderabad, at least until English is replaced by another useful language which may not happen until several hundreds of years from now, hopefully. Also, that is why Telugus didnât need a Telugu dictionary until C. P. Brown came along to Christianize (enlighten). They still donât have a Thesaurus, because C. P. Brown failed to prepare one! Even if I want to teach my children my dead Telugu language, I donât have the resources. One great payoff of this is that I donât have to teach my children my dead Telugu at all. They will do better than me in Hyderabad with just English! Now Tenglish people just have to get rid of their script and adopt roman script. Thanks to Internet, it is already happening!
Conclusion: The Tenglish should feel vindicated and proud when they read Jerry Knowlesâ comments in this 1997 article . Tamils would do better if they use Tamglish and stop fighting for Elam in Sri Lanka, and, of course, only if Sinhalese became Singlish. I wish the French were as wise as the Tenglish and scrapped their strict rules related to their language and developed Frenglish! Similarly, Runglish, Spanglish, Itanglish, etc. are better than their counterparts. World would be a better place, if everybody learns the Tenglish way - the best way and the Tao!
avaru Tenglishu madaru ku jasminu gaarlanDu (Jasmine Garland to Our Tenglish Mother)
Better yet,
jasminu gaarlanDu Tu avaru Tenglishu madaru (Jasmine Garland to Our Tenglish Mother)
haava haappi nyu yiyaru! <!--emo&:roll--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ROTFL.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ROTFL.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Sreenivasarao Vepachedu
http://www.vepachedu.org/hyderabad.html<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The last sentences are a Tenglish translation of the famous Telugu saying "Ma Telugu Thalliki Malle Puvvu Dhanda" (Jasmine garland to our mother Telugu).