Maharashtra government issues unusual directive on Saturdayuh October. Local executives asked all public service employees to no longer use the English word “hello” to greet their telephone interlocutors, do we study at Indian Express. According to the administration of this state in southern India, which includes the city of Bombay, the term “hello”, which means “hello” in English, is “imitating Western culture and a ‘a greeting without special meaning that does not evoke any emotion’”, continued the English daily, citing the intended directive.
Instead of answering the phone with “Hello”, officials are encouraged to use the term “Vande Mataram”. Which “means we submit to our mother”Local Culture Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said on Sunday at the launch of an awareness campaign aimed at getting rid of English terms commonly used in India.Explain Hindu. Pak Mungantiwar added that the use of the term “Jai Shri Ram” is also acceptable, which means “Long live Lord Ram”Hindu pantheon. “During the independence movement, the slogan ‘Inquilab Zindabad'[longue vie à la révolution] has been banned by the British.” especially justified, according to Hindu.
This directive comes as India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, from the ranks of Hindu nationalists, has vowed to remove symbols of British colonialism. He recently renamed the iconic street Rajpath, in New Delhi, whose name means “way of kings”. The Prime Minister also removed the St George’s Cross from the Indian Navy flag with the aim, once again, of ending India’s colonial past.
