Technology plays a very important role in development of human society. Also it can be argued that technology can be very important in growth and proliferation of particular language. English is spread across the globe like a wild fire because of technology especially internet.
To spread and increase the use of Marathi we need to convert content in English on internet into Marathi. People should be able to write in Marathi on net, yes of course there are some ways to write even now but they are quite cumbersome to use. People prefer to write Marathi in Roman script rather than Devnagari. We need to create online encyclopedias like Wikipedia in Marathi. This will make Marathi ‘The language of knowledge’.
Instead of crying foul and projecting intolerant image coupled with politics of resentment and hate over the issue of language. Let us do some constructive work for Diasporas’ spread and development of our Marathi!
The most disturbing thing that I find is younger generations of Maharashtra are raised in such a way that there “Emotional world” is not shaped and developed in Marathi. For instance take the example of Cartoon channels. There are plenty of them floating on air; they are in English, Chinese, Hindi even in Tamil and Telegu. But is there any in Marathi??? If not, why? If this is the case how we will be able to attach emotional world of younger generations to our soil, our culture and our mother tongue!
In my opinion if we do this we do enough service to our beloved mother tongue!!
Jai Hind!!
Jai Maharashtra!!!
