Sunday, 7 June 2015

Murdering a language


My blood boils when I hear and see the beautiful Urdu language being murdered by wrong pronunciation of its words, e.g. 'zaroor' being pronounced and written as 'jaroor', 'buzurg' as ' bujurg', 'zamaana' as 'jamaana',  خود as 'khud', 'zila' as 'jila', etc.

 There was a Judge in the Allahabad High Court named Justice Raza. One day when I was a Judge in the Allahabad High Court a lawyer pronounced his name as Justice 'Reja', and I took him to task.
 Pronunciation ( uchcharan or talaffuz ) should be correct, otherwise you will be regarded an uncultured boor.

 Once some lawyer said in my court that he is filing a 'petisun'. I asked him " Do you believe in Lord Shiva ?'

 He replied yes.

 I then said to him " Then say ' Shiva Shambho, Shiva Shambho, Shiva Shambho ' 100 times every morning before coming to Court ".