Behenji conquers DravidaNadu

Thursday, 25 December 2008 00:09

Written by maverick58

Karunanidhi was part of the youth brigade who had bitterly fought against the imposition of Hindi in the early 60s and helped the DMK to trounce the Congress in power on that slogan, has now grown up to be a sober citizen, along with the rest of that generation, accepting the preeminence of the national language.But it has come about not without the usual political machinations.There has been something to cheer for the die-hard Tamil souls as their language is now officially recognized as a 'classical language'. The octogenarian DMK chief minister gets the credit for using his political clout in Delhi to get the UPA Government grant the 'semmozhi' status for Tamil.

Keeping in mind that the BSP is a predominantly dalit party claiming to toil for the uplift of the downtrodden, the behenji on its posters and banners is heartening as it implies wholesome acceptance of the rashtra bhasha by the true sons and daughters of Dravida Nadu, errrrr, TamilNadu. In her electrifying speech calling for uniting all sections of the society under the BSP banner, promising benefits to the economically weaker sections of the 'forward' community and not staying content with just the dalit label, Behenji used only Hindi. Her speech was translated by a local party functionary with fair accuracy. The enigmatic Mayawati, however, who does not hide her Prime Ministerial ambition, would not do  the customary ritual that the other Hindi-belt leaders on Tamil Nadu yatra perform: punctuate the speech with 'vanakkam' [Namaste]and 'nandri'[Thank you]. One must admit that to that extent, she was more honest than most others.

The Congress must not be faulted for using the 'ji' suffix to the names of their visiting dignitaries for its a national party. For all we know, even the DMK might someday print posters for Karunanidhiji or Dayanidhiji; after all, didn't Kalaignar refer to the young Maran's fluency in Hindi as one of the main reasons for elevating him as his spokesperson in Delhi, until he fell out of grace? As a counter to the growing influence of Behenji, Sun TV is seriously pursuing the idea of a Hindi channel featuring 24x7 speeches of the Dravidian leaders with sub-titling in Hindi, our sources said.

'Captain' Vijaykanth, hitherto wooed by both the Dravidian and the leading national parties was not amused. According to our sources he is looking for the mole in his party who gave away his election manifesto's highlights to Behenji. He has also hired a private tutor to pick-up and learn the rashtra bhasha for his anticipated election to the cackle-house in Delhi called the Parliament. Such is his avid interest that he has shelved shooting for his upcoming film, Desiya Veeran meaning National Warrior based loosely on the Richard Gere film, The Hunting Party. Those in the know, vow that instead of nabbing war-criminals, the 'Captain' had trained his lens-gun on 'terrorists'.

All-in-all, Behenji's visit seems to have revived interest in the rashtra bhasha in the hinterlands of the dravidian state.

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