Kahmir is known across the globe not only for its scenic beauty but also for its rich cultural heritage.being in banglore one can feel the essence of his/her own language which one hardly feels here in kashmir .banglore is known as the IT capital of india and is most popular city not only because of boom in the IT field but also for preserving there language so this means they are developing in both respects which we hardly find in kashmir .kashmiri people are forgetting their language and destroying their culture happily without knowing what will be the ill effects.Language is the identity of a particular society we kashmiris are least concerned about our identity and time will come when kashmiri language will be lost amid winds of trublent times.
i would like to share my experience being a student outside the state.when i reached the capital city of karanataka which is banglore the treatment provided to the mother tongue kannnada motivated me to write about the preservation of language .i was amazed when i saw kannada language written everywhere on buses,shops,railway stations,shopping malls etc which i was not expecting being a kashmiri because we have different ideology about banglore that they are only communicating in english.its true to some extent but not at all from shopkeeper to school teacher ,bus driverdriver to rickshaw driver everyone is communicating in their mother tongue kannada,if anyone has to stay in banglore one must be knowing little bit kannada because they are not aware about national language hindi.another good exmple of preserving kannada language is that you will find names of shops,advertise boards,name of bus stops written first in kannada then in English.In the field of mass media karanataka state has more then 3000 newspapers in kannada language which includes dailies.fortnighties,weekly.mot only this karanataka has their own film industrywhich is booming everywhere and hindi movies are remaking thir films in hindi one good example is aamir khan starrer Gajni which is showing how much they are concerning about their language.In karanataka people often pose questions to kashmiris that do you know how to read and write kashmiri but answer is same no,and every sensitive kashmiri feels ashamed in such a situation.
But comparing kashmir with karanataka story is different ,kashmiri people are hardly concerned about their language they even feel ashamed while speaking in front of others .its trend in kashmir to teach urdu/english to new born child so that he/she will be popular in society.we can find hardly any advertise board or other hoarding written in kashmiri language,now new avatar of kashmir is train and if you have seen train you can find name of railway stations or name of train written in hindi and english not in kashmiri which is big shame for kashmiris who are forgetting and destroying their language.In the field of mass media kashmiri language is also lacking far behind by having only 2 newspapers in kashmiri language that are weekely which is showing hw much kashmiris are careless about their language.on campiring kashmir with banglore we are backward in all respects from IT field upto preserving our language.if this will continue one day kashmiri language will have no caretakers and our future generations would get to read from histroy books that there ancestors once used to speak a language namely "KASHMIRI".
Sooner the better sense prevails to awake the demands of vainishing language to put the mess in order its responisibilty of one and all especially the common masses to help in restoring the gignity of our mother tongue.It has been rightly said by ALLAMA IQBAL"GAWADI HAM NAI JOO ASLAF SAA MEERAAS PAYE THEE....
SURAYA SAA ZAMEEN PAR ASSAMAN NAY HUM KO DAY MARA