Telangana cupboard minister Okay.T. Rama Rao addresses the gathering throughout a street present forward of Telangana Meeting elections, in Kamareddy district, on Nov. 18, 2023.
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HYDERABAD
As election campaigns chopping throughout occasion traces in Telangana warmth up, the jibes have develop into blunter, the swipes more durable, and verbal skirmishes sharper. However when all these blows are delivered in Dakhni, it provides a component of mirth and impishness. And what’s extra the crowds find it irresistible.
At a latest assembly, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president Okay.T. Rama Rao inspired members of the general public to place up with queues and solid their vote. In a jocular style he sought a present of arms of those that have been from Hyderabad, and proceeded to pepper his Telugu with Dakhni. “Maloom Hyderabad ke logaan bhot busy rehte [I know that the people of Hyderabadi are busy],” he mentioned. Then got here the Dakhni clincher, “Khaali peeli baithke: ino kya hai, uno kya hai, ye baigan hai, woh hai? Em osthadi?”
Curiously, “baigan” in Dakhni shows dexterity, and is utilized in a variety of contexts. It may be an intensifier, a substitute for an expletive, softening the blow, and on this context, seems to have been used to explain, in a hypothetical scenario, an individual who’s ineffective.
At one other public assembly, it was Mr. KTR’s father and Telangana Chief Minister Okay. Chandrashekhar Rao who chided a member of the general public for interrupting him, and referred to as him a idiot in Dakhni. “Haula”, he mentioned.
In different political conferences and gatherings, hau, which means “yes”, and the nakko, which means “no”,have been commonplace in political rhetoric within the run as much as the Telangana Meeting election. The case was the identical with the Dakhni contractions of aataou and jaataou, phrases which imply that one is coming and going respectively.
However, it was All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi who introduced out, from his verbal arsenal a less-heard idiom. Criticising the Opposition at a public assembly he quipped, “Apni Dakhni mey ek kahaavat hai: Divaanay uthhay, sirr ku mussal laptay [simpletons got up and wrapped a wooden pestle around their heads].”
Telangana’s Congress president A. Revanth Reddy too used Dakhni to assault Mr. Owaisi. At a press convention, Mr. Reddy, flanked by cricketer Mohammed Azharuddin, his occasion’s Jubilee Hills candidate, instructed the AIMIM chief to not lie. “Aap aise jhootay baataan mat karo [Don’t lie like this],” he mentioned, whilst he used the aataou, an expression meant to state that he would go to a specific place. Difficult Mr. Owaisi to refute his allegations with an oath on the Mecca Masjid, Mr. Reddy mentioned, “Jumme ki din mai aataou [This Friday, I will come].”
The opinion about Dakhni, whether or not it’s a language in its personal proper, distinct from Urdu, or a dialect of Urdu has polarised students and audio system alike. On condition that it has absorbed phrases from Telugu and Kannada and Marathi, it stays fashionable in lots of elements of South India, Telangana included.
However for Sajjad Shahid, a chronicler of Hyderabad from the Centre for Deccan Research, Dakhni is a separate language. He identified that over the previous few many years, Dakhni has been used for humour and satire. “Dakhni is popular because it is an embedded language. Despite North Indian influences, and given that it being sidelined from serious subjects, it has become the language of humour and satire. It was fully developed in the mid or late 1300s as can be seen from the poetry of great Sufi Hazrat Khwaja Banda Nawaz. Therefore, to say that it is a dialect of Urdu is wrong,” he mentioned.
