“Jab tak ee desh ma sanima (cinema) hai, log ch***ye bante rahenge”
Boasts a Bollywood hating Ramadhir Singh in Gangs of
Wasseypur 2. I took him too seriously for a moment. But, is it really so
Ramadhir?? Has not Bollywood given us anything worthy??
Look at the poster above, it is the famous film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, we read it
fluently don’t we??
That’s what Bollywood has been promoting since its
inception. An all new Indian script called Romanaagarii Script. For those who didn’t
get me yet, it is a kind of hindi/native language written in Roman script. Eg :
Samajh me aya??
I had always conversed in Hinglish/Benglish scripts since I started
texting short messages back in school. It used to be kind of an agreed code
language between fellow teenager friends. ‘Coded’ coz we didn’t want our
parents to read but understand our messages.
Then one day my dad missed one of my calls and replied me
with a sms which said “Amra vhalo achi
(we are fine). How are you?” Damn!! I was like, how could Dad write like that? It
felt as if the generation gap had narrowed by more than a kilometer :D
Recently I came across an article in The Telegraph which
reported about this strange new language evolving in India; or as we call it…
Youngistaan!!! It was a totally technical report on how this language is more
tough to ‘decode’ and consumes more brain functionality than regular scripted Hindi
or English. Hence, I did my regular Google search.
Indeed, a professor Virendra Pal Singh by name is working on
a Romanaagrii script based on English (Roman), Devanagari script and ASCII,
which is another created script for programming. Virendra knows Hindi,
Sanskrit, Gujrati, Punjabi, English, Arabic, French and Spanish and is a master
of computer science from McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
He has developed a concept of Simple, Alphabetic and
Rational Approach to Literacy (SARAL)
and innovated SARAL fonts for writing several languages.
So, this code language of our teenage is official now. Mr.
Virendra’s website infact promises a 9 lesson tutorial of Romanagarii writing.
No doubt this new style of writing one’s native language in
English script is a mass phenomenon among the young Indians who memorized English
alphabets long before they understood it came from England; and grew up with
the digital revolution. IMs, SMSs, Facebook posts, tweets, everywhere Hindi and
other local languages are being fluently used in English scripts.
But, this thing has a drawback too; it becomes cumbersome when
the message is too long. It is best for short messages.
As languages like Bengali, Asomese, Oriya, all evolved
separately from the same Devanagari script, the day aint far when a new nation
called Youngistaan will emerge with a new global language called Romanaagarii.
And if so, we will again find it easier to read The Bhagavad
Gita like this… ;-)
Jo Hua Hai, Accha Hua
Hai,
Jo Ho Raha Hai, Accha
Ho Raha Hai.
Jo Hone Wala Hai,
Accha Hi Hoga.
Tumhara Kya Kho Gaya
Hai – Jo Tum Ro Rahe Ho?
Tum Kya Leke Aye The –
Jo Tumhara Kho Gaya?
Kya Tumne Wo Shristhi
Kiya Tha – Jo Ab Nahi Hai?
Tumne Jo Liya Hai,
Yahi Se Liya Hai.
Jo Diya Hai, Yahi Pe
Diya Hai.
Aaj Jo Tumhara Hai,
Kal Wo Kisi Aur Ka
Tha
Parso Kisi Aur Ka Ho
Jayega
Pariwartan Hi Iss Sansar
Ka Dharm Hai.
Yeh Dil Maange More ?? Visit : www.saralhindi.com.