A criminal case should be booked against the parents who send their kids to english medium schools. They are killing our beautiful language Malayalam and this is a serious crime which should be punished to the fullest extent of law.

Says a professor of a Government school on national radio this morning. I almost spit the coffee I was drinking all over myself. Capital punishment for killing a language? I do make fun of friends who migrated from the gulf when they strutter words like “Malayalam Kurachu Kurachu (Bow Bow) Arriyam”, but sending them to prison? Gimme a break!

I still remember the time when we went on a trip to Tamil Nadu some years back. Thanks to their immense love of Tamil language, we spent half the day trying to figure out where we were supposed to go. Thankfully in recent times the National Highways Authority have started making signs in 3 languages.

So, can a language be really killed? I bunked my first exam in school when I was 13 and went to see Kaho Na Pyaar Hai, and that exam was malayalam. I never saw the reason to study Malayalam as it almost came naturally to me. Though I am from a Tamil brahmin living in Kerala for the past 4 generations,   I speak malayalam, and read/write it with some difficulty, yet I do not see the point in learning poetry and prose! I mean, what is the whole idea?

I understand people blogging in Malayalam, but that has more to do with expressing yourself in languages you know best than to do with love for the language. Languages evolve, but do they get killed? Malayalam spoken across the households today is drastically different from what it was some generations back. Times change, so do the ways to express it.

Some years people said “Send a letter after you reach..” but today its more like “Gimme a missed call after you reach….”. After religious fanatism, the thing I hate the most is region or language based fanatism. It is something which has to be checked in the roots so that a country with as diversity as ours is kept united.

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