With over 1,282,390,303 people, India is the second largest nation in terms of population. It is equivalent to 17.5% of the total world population. An estimated 780 languages are spoken in the country. With an expected literacy rate to touch 80% by end of this year, India is a progressive nation beyond doubt ... But are we really literate in the moral sense? With such a progressive and trend setti
ng nation … doing so well in all aspects … what has become fashionable nowadays is to use swear/curse words and filthy double entendre words almost in every Indian language across the nation … It’s a cultural shock, a kind of addiction that has plagued the use of language. One in three people, use abusive words in their day to day conversations to the extent that some even greet each other using ‘gaalis’. Gaali has literally become a ‘gaali’ for one’s sanskriti, customs, traditional, moral and ethical values. And women are made the scapegoats. Always the soft target, they become easy prey to a never-ending volley of abusive words. We keep talking of clean and green surroundings as the need of the hour for a greener tomorrow, how about clean and swachh bhaasha that’s spoken from the heart and mind? Has anyone thought of cleaning their diction first? Gaali Free India is a humble initiative to let people sweep the filth off their language, filter the words carefully, polish it to touch lives of people and set example to the younger generation and help them respect their language and never corrupt it with the use of abusive words. Many are not even aware of how their language has diseased with the muck of gaalis. They speak as if the gaalis are in trend and a way to vent out their frustrations.
