As the Marathi department at the University of Mumbai is struggling for it existence with just 35 students opting for it in MA Part1 this year, the class of Hindi (MA Part1) is packed at Kalina and Fort campuses.
As the Marathi department at the University of Mumbai is struggling for it existence with just 35 students opting for it in MA Part1 this year, the class of Hindi (MA Part1) is packed at Kalina and Fort campuses. Interestingly, 35 of them are Marathi.
The scene is not different at KC College (Churchgate), one of the four postgraduate Hindi centres in Mumbai, where 8 out of 25 pupils are Marathi manoos. Of the 16 students in MA (part1) in Sathaye Cllege, 10 are Marathi-speaking and in first year BA, 60 out of 80 seats have taken by Marathibhashi students. Clearly, though the Shiv Sena and the MNS are playing Marathi card aggressively for years focusing on vote bank politics, it seems that Marathi youth have focused on the future.
“I am a proud Marathi but I believe that Hindi has better prospects,” says Marathi Mulagi Suneeta Darvesh, MA (Hindi) student at Kalina campus, who aspires to become a teacher at government or international schools.
A Marathi boy of final year MA has chosen Hindi as he wants to join film industry as script writer. These youth feel that Hindi will give them a bigger canvas than Marathi.
“Many MPhil and PhD students are also Marathibhashis. The driving force behind this is the film and TV industry,” says head of the Hindi department Prof Ratan Kumar Pandey.
Youth has a reason to believe so. Mumbai is the HQ of the entertainment industry, including film, TV, radio and other media which has tremendous job prospects. Many foreign channels, which started in English, have switched to Hindi.
Major cartoon and knowledge channels are available in Hindi now. This has created a number of jobs in Hindi dubbing, translation, transcription.
Though, opportunities are there in Marathi theatre, TV and film industries too but Hindi is better pay master. Clearly, Marathi pride is a different issue and career is another. Students have no option but to flock to Hindi.
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