Consti-tuition - Episode 2: Language - Part 1

Meghnad explains the widespread use of Hindi and how it affects non-speakers.
Is Hindi our national language? Do we have a national language? The answer to both these questions is absolutely not. In this episode, the first part of the Language combo, Meghnad explains how Hindi turned into a language which is so widespread and used in India.
He also wonders out loud: what happens when a person doesn't understand Hindi or English? What all can she not do in a multilingual country like ours?
This is part one of two for Language. In the next episode, we talk about the other widely adapted and used language: English.
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[@TheJusdoit]

Marathi Meghnad is the best!

[@annageorge1992]

The selected malayalam movie clips are spot on

[@ravin2363]

anna george what did they say?

[@satiretwins6199]

Meghnad Sir ,तुमची मराठी उत्तम आहे.( Your Marathi is really good) 👌 कडक!

[@94gau]

Are marathich ahe to!!

[@quishi329]

Superbly written! And presented

[@ankitsonariya918]

We respect KM Munshi in Gujarat so much for writing history novels of Gujarat and being part of Constitution making and he didn't ask to make Gujarati even an official language then. That person wrote in Gujarati. I wonder what the hell were they thinking. Languages matter. However small the number of speakers may be.

[@ChandravijayAgrawal]

This is good topic very needed

[@PabloEscobar-uo7bd]

awesome research

[@tripleh5369]

To all suckular people in 2014 press freedom index india was 140 and in 2018 its 138 lol what do u think about that??

[@afzalahmed9033]

No homework yet superbly described!!! Power of Education...unlike our PM who allegedly does his homework for 18-20 hours yet comes up with false remarks and fake JUMLAS!!!

[@pravin5625]

जय हिंद जय महाराष्ट्र

[@quriositysquared1028]

You are amazing.

[@ketanshelke9261]

Meghnad dada, content laich bhari hota. Thank you!

[@ravin2363]

ketan shelke mala pan aavadate.

[@truthprevails4998]

Thank you meghnad awesome

[@ishan3412]

Very informative content !!! But T-Series ka copyright claim aaya kya?

[@bhavukful]

maine izzat kamaya chote samaj mein aaya kya

[@mbk3719]

I love Marathi language the most

[@Triple109]

This is great.

[@aagantuk7370]

Dude these are so well made!

[@ManfromNoVhere]

Wow. That was amazing. That didn't feel like tuition at all.

[@whatsinanam]

Man, this show is really great and the script writing is so on point! Keep giving us more!

[@quishi329]

Love the way he said 'this was our daddy!' Aww

[@amanshaikh3645]

Your Marathi is amazing, where did you learn it sir??

[@meghnerd]

At home. It's my mother tongue. :)

[@ravin2363]

Meghnad S previously I thought you are a bengali but after listening to your Marathi in some earlier videos I got the clue. Haha. I learned Marathi too but not at home.

[@ravin2363]

@sheldon pereira you Mumbai kar too?

[@meghnerd]

@sheldon pereira Sir Dilli madhech kaam milta aamchya sarkhya public policy walya lokanna. Mumbai madhe unfortunately fakta creative jobs miltil. :(

[@PsuedoMoran]

What a great video. Thumbs up!

[@chintangandhi1]

Wish to Join you guys. As I am A Gujarati born and Brought up in Bihar which was later converted into Jharkhand. I studied my Bachelors in Karnataka and I worked in cities like Mumbai, Delhi and right now am living at Gujarat. I speak broken for and can fully understand 8 languages and can write in 4 Indian languages. I wish we can keep the diversity of the nation. The forceful conversion into a unified linguistic structure can have immense effect on the cultural identity, heritage, and lives. We have seen the ill effects of unification by language in China (More discussion later). If you have ever read a translation of any literary novel/book/poem(Which is next to impossible)/recipe you can understand there are so many things that can not be translated or transcripted from one language to another. I personally feel and am trying to impart it in my nephew & niece is the importance of ethics and respecting other's feelings(Wish our leaders could have the same).

[@theawkwardcurrypot9556]

0:57 "ഇല്ലാ" He an MP from Kerala,now.

[@husainjam]

Wow. Such great content man

[@kashifrehman2567]

Excellent! You are getting better with every new episode.

[@plumageplanet7858]

Awesome

[@devrajshellagi9843]

Good work.keep doing..don't by number of views..Even after many years people will come and see video go and create quality videos

[@masaleem2001]

Great

[@vishalsharmassp]

Congratulations welcome to gang.. 😉😉 balance banaye rakhen life mein 😉😉 now you will understand that chandramukhi in 6 months becomes surajmukhi and in next six months becomes jwalamukhi.. 😊😊 welcome to club ... but just be happy ..a happy guy like you will ensure happiness.. GOD BLESS

[@bhushankabir8906]

जय महाराष्ट्र!😁

[@sameer1589]

this is great guys .... please keep it up guys

[@priyankarmajumder4152]

I'm a Bengali first then only I am an Indian. And thus for us,Bengali language matters the most. So what is that Hindi????

[@vfxyug9099]

very informative and very entertaining..... bot badiya

[@gumnam99]

I love vande materam on TV show

[@shrutijadhav9688]

Bahut maza aaya👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😆

[@राधेलाल-र9ध]

नमस्कार मेग नाथ जी,

[@JustSharawanaThings]

When the man sung the national song I literally paused the video and laughed which I never did before even for a comedy show or a clip...

[@aamirsohail9749]

Starting was impressive.. 👍

[@khelanengti1742]

Blue one love

[@Saurabhnaik]

Hindi is not National Language

[@Saurabhnaik]

Season १ कुठे गेला?

[@abhi4u20]

I see job potential in our languages...translators...writers.. etc for every product portal books...

[@spmanojgowda]

Best intro ever

[@Triple109]

the problem in politics with that is all the politicians want to control the finances of India.

[@justanotherview3243]

Today's video confirms my persisting doubt that Meghnad's mother tongue is Marathi. That unmistakable accent and the 'Meghnad' name. 😂

[@grammarspecial]

next topic reservation....

[@padmeshpawar6788]

‘Prayatna tar karun paha tumhi' dialogue was op 😂😂

[@VarunRajpurohit]

I am a #marwari...support Hindi for Hindus of north

[@ChandravijayAgrawal]

3:00 koi mujhe samjha sakta hai kya 🙁🙁

[@ravin2363]

Chandravijay Agrawal officially hindi English and one regional language is used for official communications in state. When the constitution came into existence, it was written in English and then translated to hindi. At the moment nobody saw the need to covert this complex document into regional languages. So it is officially available in only hindi and English. 3 language rule came in 70's during guess.

[@ChandravijayAgrawal]

@@ravin2363 what is meaning of ...does not ever say,hindi is not a national language, available in not hindi,not english...

[@ravin2363]

@@ChandravijayAgrawal he said is not available for non Hindi and non English speakers. Like rural South Indian population, entire North Eastern tribes and tribes in other parts of india. They don't have it available in their regional or local language. That's what he said.

[@pavantarawade7037]

Good one. But can't ignore the similarity with the John Oliver show.

[@theshahshoaib7813]

Bhai what language u want

[@rajashreechoudhury7155]

Matalab one maharaja 🙏

[@ChandravijayAgrawal]

8:50 it didn't matter what they are saying because nobody is listening to them 😂😂😂

[@CovertlyOvert]

हाहाहा जलज पंकज नीरज सरोज जब मैंने कमल का पर्यायवाची(synonym) search किया तो पाया कि "अरविन्द" भी कमल का पर्याय है ! #FunFact nobody asked for.

[@cendur]

You need to talk about how Hindi obtained it's official language status by just one vote!

[@MoinKhan-uf4pg]

Where is season 1 ?

[@jeetanpatel7036]

Is megnath Marathi Manus?

[@meghnerd]

MARATHI MANUS JAGAA HOOOOOOOOO

[@jeetanpatel7036]

@@meghnerd gadkari for pm😉

[@94gau]

Aekhada episode marathit pan Kara :)

[@charantk]

English hindi and all others should be able to mix and create new languages then the notions of pure languages and its imposition will go.

[@abhishekkadam6439]

Tsunami wala national song

[@paisurjiths]

Bhopuri is a dialect? No way. I guess you're wrong there.

[@prannvdhawan9482]

❤️❤️❤️

[@PraveenKumar-uz2cz]

This is our daddy ha ha ha 5:20

[@tahmidikhlas1984]

#NeedOfTime, @meghnad thank you so much for taking up the topic but you should have also spoken about so many unofficial, tribal languages and a few other which are almost at a verge of extinction.

[@milk6982]

I understand and can read hindi and marathi but my english is better so i prefer that

[@chandrakantsahu25]

Consti- Tuition ka hindi + other versions lao, Better rahega

[@AimonsL_oignon]

South Africa practically has only 2 official languages, others have only been made official just for the same reason they've been in India

[@cenationofjnu]

Best part was the killing of vande mantram by that idiot ghusami😂😂😂. I liked the video. When will you upload the part 2?

[@tripleh5369]

To all suckular people in 2014 press freedom index india was 140 and in 2018 its 138 lol what do u think about that??

[@mayurakshidey7787]

Triple H copy paste in every comment ha?😂😂😂.. per post ka 10 rs mil raha Hai na? At least use some creativity dude 😂😂😂

[@tripleh5369]

@@mayurakshidey7787 what i said is correct also all the places where I wrote it nobody was able to give me any good answer u can check one guy even accused me of being a bot And as far as getting 10 rupees is concerned u r wrong i get 15 per post but look at it this way bjp is creating jobs and liberandu says there r no jobs 😂😂

[@tripleh5369]

@@cenationofjnu ofcouree there is no need to talk about press freedom after all why would there be a need to debate about press freedom in India right 😂 u liberal r all the same the amount of denial u live in is so amazing

[@ravin2363]

@@mayurakshidey7787 true. That's the extent of unemployment in India. These it cell people have to depend on 10rs per comment for their basic needs. Poor soul. We shouldn't make fun of the kinds of him, paapi pet ka sawal hai 🤣🤣

[@rohittaro9121]

I have my own language ..I don't want Hindi..

[@spatia367]

0:28

[@dj41376]

It has just become an election talking point by regional parties for votes against central parties. But the language based education and its development remains an ignored issue by both central n state govt.

[@AjayBhardwaj-p5l]

Good episode though I didnt like his dot joke on Hindi. My opinion is that if you care so much about English Grammar then you should also take care of each other national language.

[@AYUSHSINGH-hv3ot]

Yes, I absolutely agree with you. Had the same thought!

[@susantakumarrath3311]

Ha ha ha, My CBSE Hindi teacher's name was Pyarelal (maybe a brother of Nandlal sir)

[@pravin5625]

हातर मराठी निघाला रे

[@mayureshanand946]

@Meghnad Just because you speak Marathi you put a discriminatory data saying Maithili is a dialect. While Bhojpuri is a dialect Maithili is a language and is one of 22 Official languages of India listed in Eighth Schedule just as equivalent to yours. Also, as per 2011 census only 1.12% population in India speaks it and Bhojpuri is spoken by 4.18%. So I don't understand how your data @9:30 aggregates to 41%. Just to educate your Marathi mind, Maithili is the sister language of Bengali, Assamese, and Odiya. I don't think I need to write more, your bigoted Marathi mind which seems to be fairly knowledgeable can help you assess if your regional bias is justified.

[@afzalahmed9033]

Meghnad Bhai, Please make a video on the advocates who lose their cases yet they don't get jailed or fined for fake narratives and false witnesses!!! Isn't there any provision for them to make them honest??? Because I think that the advocates are responsible for delayed Judgements!!! Do think about it, bro!!!

[@mbk3719]

All languages are good except FEKU language.

[@daudkhan440]

You missed so many opportunities to clarify important concepts (like the difference between official and national language), using jokes to instead carry forward the conversation. This thing about jokes substituting for actual clarification, can be the undoing of this (great) initiative

[@deepmusic950]

Correct pata hi Nahi Chala ki comedy video hai ya knowledge based .. no conclusion

[@deepmusic950]

What you want to say ... Akhir kehana kya chahte ho ?? Sir sadharan bhasa me Hindi rastra bhasha Nahi hai .. To seedhe seedhe bhi bol sakte ho na .. Kosis Kiya tha per view time KZbin pe kam hua

[@prasad4844]

your looks remind me of Stanley Kubrick

[@mamidivivek1]

I’m calling the kabadi wala..

[@bhujgeshojha8215]

10:50...It's Grammar Meghnad and it matters for every language.Hope next time you have some sense in your satires.

[@akshit5795]

I agree. He probably thinks it is cool to make fun of grammar of a language ( which can tell you about his childish and non-analytic mind). This is total propaganda against Hindi. And the irony of all this is that he is from Maharashtra from where many people made lots of money by hiring Hindi and Urdu writters for writing movie scripts and songs.

[@shyamktvmala]

നഹീന്ന് പറഞ്ഞാ നഹീ

[@theawkwardcurrypot9556]

Podo hee

[@priyankarmajumder4152]

What if I do not intend to speak either Hindi or English?? What if I only intend to speak my mother tongue that is part of the 22official languages?? Why the fucking Central Indian government won't allow me any opportunities then???

[@tandonakshat89]

This is so stupid that we still have such debates (on language) in 21st century ...... language kept on (and will in future) changing and transforming...... what today is an official language was once a street or colloquial language and its is just stupid that nowadays people attach their ego with languages, which infact is just a small part of our communication. And there are more than atleast 200 different languages and dialects in india. Applying this theory, even languages like marathi, tamil, etc shouldn't be official languages in their respective states either, as all states have more than one languages spoken by locals. and if everyone in India starts taking their respective ancient languages as cultural pride, then we would end up communicating like cavemen.

[@ThePunee13]

Ooo then we should all learn English then?

[@IndanaSashank]

Did you conveniently ignore Dr B R Ambedkar's efforts to make Sanskrit an official language? It was opposed by members like B P Maurya, who later regretted his opposition in a letter dated 14 February, 2001, addressed to the director of NCERT: "Because of my inexperience, I opposed the resolution. Ultimately the idea of the resolution was dropped." you should atleast add an annotation, 'coz for many people Ambedkar's opinion matters and inturn influences their opinion. I personally think it would be a better idea to try and make sanskrit an official language rather than imposing hindi because of the common vocabulary (not all, but many words are common) it shares with almost all the indian languages (i don't know about tamil.) people even say it is the most suitable language for coding etc.. may be it's time the citizens discuss this in view of rapid modernization and the need for an edge for india to surpass the other developed nations. it is a difficult language but i think in 5-6 generations it can be adopted.

[@mythilinsk3520]

Reservation language both have resistance initiated from tamilnadu

[@merazul007]

water planting with urine to make them grow.....seriously. Deva utha re baba.

[@deepmusic950]

Correct kaise kaise log hai na Kuch bhi botle hai , gadhe pe baith k space me bhi chale jate hai

[@mohitsachan11]

Why don’t your channel have content in all regional languages of India?

[@nandanachar5597]

English is official .

[@dhribbler7303]

Their channel is not the government, big difference. They don't provide essential services to citizens.

[@mohitsachan11]

@@dhribbler7303 They are contradicting thrmselves.

[@dhribbler7303]

@@mohitsachan11 I think I explained why there's no contradiction, they're a private organisation providing content to their target audience, mostly English speaking. They're not the government which serves all citizens irrespective of their language:)

[@mohitsachan11]

@@dhribbler7303 But people who dont know Hindi or English will not be able to get the msg, to whom this video should be targeted.

[@Sherlock03]

Can you Guys at least show focus on the Assam's current situation . Whole state is opposing against fascist Citizenship Amendment Bill,2016 and no one is showing any interest on this topic

[@ravin2363]

Steve Rogers we the citizens of this country, know. Don't worry. Hindu and Indian express has covered the news on daily basis.

[@jay2jaykp]

Bhai this is a season 2 of a series that has objective defined already. You should raise the comment on their general news videos.

[@tanikachandna6776]

They definitely will!

[@diplodocus3]

But I had a big-ass copy of our Constitution in my home written in Marathi since 2003. Fact-check Meghnad

[@shashikiran4393]

Venkaiah Naidu is faking about being anti hindi and lying about painting tar on hindi sign boards.Anti hindi campaign never happened in the region where he was from(Nellore or Andhra Pradesh). He created this story by adapting the anti hindi movement of Tamil Nadu during Periyar time. Venkaiah often does some gimmicks to impress his party high command.what a joker 😂

[@infihight_6005]

تم بک گی ہے حکومت😂😂 #UP

[@Trendingmews]

Chl pagal

[@akshit5795]

You still do understand that broadly Indian languages is divided in to 4 families 1.indo Aryan 2. Dravidian 3.austric 4. Tibeto Burmese . There are obvious differences between these languages. But there are still many similarities especially within the family for eg. most of Indo Aryan use devanagari script. We are also not living in an era of isolation as we are one country not many "riyasats" that used to exist. We need to intermingle culturally as language is a divisive force in Indian context. Roughly I will say 60% speaks speaks those languages which are written in devanagari script and from my own personal experience people in Andhra and Karnataka understand Hindi (at least the semi urban and urban). No one is saying don't protect your native language as I am from hp so I speak fluent kangri, mandyali, kahluri ( see the diversity of languages alone in small state like h.p.), but it will help if we can all use one language to communicate as it becomes difficult for one to live settle in other states.

[@ravin2363]

What are your views about learning malyalam?

[@akshit5795]

@@ravin2363 if I get shifted to kerala, then of course. Is not this what we do when we go to European countries like Germany, France? But still it would be great if one language can be used as a medium to communicate so a person shifting his base does not feel isolated in his own country.

[@ravin2363]

AKSHIT GUPTA English, as was already in practice due to British rule and easier to learn, I feel choice of common language English in not bad. Over and above that, learning English has provided Indian software and bpo industry an edge as compared to other south Asian countries. It has helped our economy a lot. English as a single language seems a better option although I like hindi , I also right poems and prose in hindi but when it comes to such topics I feel I need to keep my mind open. Also I asked about learning malyalam because similar is the case with people in southern part or north eqstern part of India. They think they will learn when required.

[@dsbdsb6637]

I have no problem with English as link language but don't you think that making it a link language will essentially kill all Indic Languages & Dialects ? Hindi was preferred over other language {at the time of independence} as it is derived from Sanskrit & has many similarities with various regional languages like Marathi, Punjabi, Malyalam, Bengali etc. {Check various common words among them} & was similar to the spoken language - Hindustani or Hindavi. Having a link language similar to the other regional languages of the nation will help preserve it's unique identity {regionally & internationally}.

[@akshit5795]

@@dsbdsb6637 Exactly, couldn't have explained any better.

[@satyamebajayata1694]

Number of liberandu(liberal gandu) is increasing 😂

[@yadavdeepak8681]

Mtlb English Ko apna sakte ho or hindi language ki uda sakte ho !!!

[@yadavdeepak8681]

@@ravin2363 I am very proud to be a hindi medium student, because I am not like you...🖕

[@ramitkumar6844]

Regional arrogance must be eliminated in order to integrate oneself to the mainstream indian society your arrogance of not assimilating yourself is your loss. nation should have one voice else it will become a circus

[@charantk]

English hindi and all others should be able to mix and create new languages then the notions of pure languages and its imposition will go.