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Com. Duane,
I think you had sent a private message. Because there is
nothing private about the message, I am forwarding it to marxmail, with my
response. Pardon me for doing it, without your permission.
Many of the artists - poets, actors (Raj kapoor, Dev Anand etc., Dilip Kumar)
were from the Pakistani region and settled in Bombay at the time of division of
India into Pakistan and India. So naturally, early Indian films were mostly in
Urdu.
Contrary to what you had expressed, Urdu was not encouraged by the British
colonial rulers. The imposed English on Indians.
Urdu is a language spoken by the people of undivided North-West India and can
not be identified with a particular religion.
But the word Urdu is derived from the same Turkic word ordu (army) that has
given English horde. (Urdu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). It is also said
that the origin of the word "Urdu" is from "Urta", meaning 'tent' in Central
Asia. The Moghuls are of Central Asian origin, and when they occupied the
regions north of Delhi in the 11th and 12th centuries, the invading armies were
speaking Persian and Central Asian languages and the locals were spaeking a
proto-Hindi which descended from Prakrit and Sanskrit. A new language evolved
in the process, Hindusthani or the language of India. The language spoken by
most of the people of Northern India (Except ofcourse, Bengal, Gujarat and
maharashtra and some other regions) was called Hindi and in the North-West, it
is Urdu. Urdu was the official language of the Mughal Rulers.
Urdu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Urdu (/ˈʊərduː/; Urdu: اُردُو ALA-LC: Urdū; IPA: [ˈʊrd̪uː] ( listen)), or more
precisely Modern Standard Urdu, is a standardized register of the Hindustani
languag...
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Even today, most of top actors of Bollywood are muslims (Shahrukh Khan, Salmaan
Khan, Aamir Khan among others), but Indian film industry remains free from
religious fundamentalism and projects religious harmony and brotherhood.
Anyway, language has no religion and Urdu is our Indian language, and we are
proud of it. Though my mother tongue is Telugu and I also speak Hindi, besides
English, I had cultivated a bit of Urdu from many of my muslim friends and we
together enjoy Urdu poetry occassionally.
Urdu is a beautiful language, highly expressive and poetic. Words in Urdu
carry deep magical meanings and may be that is the reason why Urdu
poetry is so enchanting.
Vijaya Kumar Marla
On Saturday, October 18, 2014 10:09 PM, Duane Filan <filan2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
hi
you wrote 'Most of Bollywood films and songs up to the 70's were in Urdu
language'
I liked all six of your poetic flashes. What language are Bollywood films in
now, and why the change?
wiki - Urdu is historically associated with the Muslims and received patronage
under the British Raj
today, I learned the origin of your name and ideas, and what the actors are
saying on the television at my favorite 'east indian ' restaurant out here, on
the west coast of Canada and the british empire.
The owner is Sikh, as are most of the indian diasparites living here. 30 years
ago 2 of them blew up an air india plane. 30 years ago, Sikhs working in the
fields as farm labourers were a common sight. Now, these people are retired and
their sons and daughters work in high tech and have fist fights over whether
there should be chairs in their mini golden temple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4lXXRlUiUJA
wiki - The Vijayanagara Empire gained dominance from 1336 to the late 17th
century, reaching its peak in the 16th century, when Telugu literature
experienced what is considered its Golden Age. The Vijayanagara Empire created
an epoch in South Indian history that transcended regionalism by promoting
Hinduism as a unifying factor.
me - before independence, congress party hindu chauvinists claiming to
represent all Indians, imposed this archaic idea on the religious minorities,
leading to the break up of india - with a little help from the british, of
course.
bye
VANCOUVER April 6, 2013— Some of Bollywood’s biggest celebrities have descended
on Vancouver for the Times of India Film Awards. The province spent $11
million to host and promote the weekend events, according to a Ministry of
Tourism news release, which called the cost money well spent.
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