The ban was lifted,Again Dahi Handi was not banned as you said there were several restrictions on it.
http://indianexpress.com/article/in...ams-bengal-bid-to-appease-minorities-3073102/
3 layer Dahi Handi is like saying only kissing is allowed on a honeymoon. Do you understand what a 3 layer Handi is? you can climb on a stool and break the Handi
That's what the courts have 'allowed'. It's a 20feet pyramid, assuming each player to be 5.9ft.
@Project Dharma I don't think the language should be imposed through syllabus. Anyone who travels to another state for work can pick up a new language in 6 months. At least, the transactional bits of it. If he stays longer, he may even become fluent.
I'm against the 'primacy' of any language. Especially Hindi. Hindi is no more 'Indic' than English is. Hindi has its etymology in the language of the invaders. It has Urdu, Farsi nouns, bound together with local glue. Hindi and Hinglish are both vestiges of the invaders and they are nothing but backdoors to their parent languages.
During partition, there was a campaign by Urdu poets and singers association to use Hindi but filter out all Sanskrit origin words and use only Persian and Urdu origin words. In this case, all Sanskrit nouns were flushed out systematically and Hindi became a 'gateway drug' towards learning pure Farsi. The purer Hindi you spoke, the closer it was to Farsi. If Hindi becomes the national language, we face the same risk again. Already Bollywood is using Arab words more frequently, just look at the songs "ishq, khudaya khair, allah maaf kare, blah blah". 'Pure Hindi' as per BJP will be Sanskritized Hindi like what Shaktimaan (Gangadhar) spoke, but this is a slippery slope. Hindi is just a transmission medium and it is very easy for Muslims to flush out the Sanskrit words and turn Hindi into Urdu.
Remember the kind of Hindi spoken by Javed Akhtar. Alfaz, lafz, guftagoo, ulfat, this is the risk in promoting Hindi. Imposition of Hindi was responsible for the partition of India because it was the facilitating bridge between the invaders and the locals. It smudged the ideological divide between separatist Muslims and nationalist Hindus because they both spoke the same language so the Taquiyya was cloaked.
There's big money involved in promoting Hindi because it has common words from Islamic vocabulary, Bollywood loves it. It makes Bollywood movies more acceptable in Muslim nations, this increases profit. I learned Hindi as a co-incidence, I may learn another language if I go to another state. It's just a tool in the arsenal, I don't want it to be the only tool or the most important tool, and I certainly don't want the government to decide it.
At the same time, there is a certain nuance that even South Indian's are missing. Hindi is portrayed as the 'language of the north' but if you look carefully, which northern community considers Hindi as their language? Those in Bihar have Maithili, Bhojpuri. Those in Punjab have Punjabi, Haryana has Haryanvi. UP has Awadhi, Khariboli etc. Who has Hindi is their original language? none. So where is this filth coming from? It is Urdu trying to raise its ugly head again.
Not many people know that in 1989 Urdu was made the official language of UP. UP is the one which contributes most MPs, MLAs and RajyaSabha seats, UP is the one which has been dominating the Indian scene since independence. Even Nehru was from UP. That retard had to undertake a train journey to the rest of India to 'discover' the real India beyond the jihadi heartland of UP that he was born in.
UP has given 8 of India's 14 prime ministers and this is an Urdu speaking state trying to impose Urdu through the backdoor in the name of Hindi. The BJP is trying to appease the UP filth to consolidate their position in 2019. Let them do it, even I want them to win in 2019, but don't get carried away with their narrative that Hindi is a nationalist language. It's just 'Urdu for Dummies 101'.