Well-known filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt has appealed to the citizens to join hands to restore Urdu to its equitable position in India.
Recalling that his mother Shireen was a Shia who was married to a secular Hindu Brahmin, she had to hide her religion because she didn’t want her children to suffer and face communalism or develop multifaceted personalities, he writes in an expressive piece of writing in The Hindu.
He tells how his father made Indian movies that had Urdu language used as the medium of communication but had shouted when he heard All India Radio’s Urdu service programmes on radio in the house. Mahesh says that his father had labeled it Pakistani radio and she humbly turned off the radio. Despite the fact that she frequently visited Majlis, she raised Mahesh as an idol worshiper and told him stories about Hindu myths.
It was afterward when he got old, he came to know that he is somehow related to Muslim legacy which he needed to represent and be a part of proudly. Mahesh Bhatt is miserable that the state doesn’t endorse education of Urdu.
After the modification in constitution, it is the duty of the government to make sure teaching the language at primary and secondary level. He urges people to struggle for the rights of Urdu population. ‘It is the essential right of every Urdu speaking child to get schooling in his mother tongue and all Urdu lovers must force the government to act immediately.
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