Should English be Indias national language?
India is a diverse nation with its banks flooded with culture, traditions, food types, literature, and art. It’s the only country where SMS is available in more than 10 languages. The 21 official languages don’t count the numerous ones of each state making India a hub of “communication”. To everyone’s notice, this diversity has taken tremendous attacks by “foreign blood” containing a virus ignored, but slowly penetrating in our lives. We all fell ill for 200yrs, 65 yrs back. Our own language antibodies were host species for the virus and slowly they gave up. We were their employers and toiled hard. After freedom, we adapted every possible thing from them since we were amateur to create our own.eg: the constitution and judiciary. Later, we pursued English as our official language to stay high on markets giving the local one the 2nd place.
Trends changed. Now people with zero English base toil hard to “learn” English the “world’s way” because it’s the fuel for their gas stoves. Those who have no idea of it, feel discarded from the society. Time is showing up again when we were “their” employers. We spent nights and days working, just to fulfil their pockets. The MNC’s surely are making Indians their slaves. Like the older days, this is creating tensions in society, among relations and the social network is mostly through touch screens. We copy their lifestyle, but when it comes to life…We don’t want to live he same. T he society is more divided than united.
How many of us know of Hindi, kannada or Tamil writers or of the ancient regional festivals, but we know of Shakespeare and Halloween. The government’s vaccine is slow over this virus. Local theatre show’s run empty. Even the movies tend to mix the English touch, but that rather disappoints viewers. We never accept that rockets were first used by Tipu Sultan of Mysore against the British and later they copied it. We neglect our own knowledge, however most of the world inventions had already occurred or their ideas originated back during VEDAS. If this is the scenario when it’s not the national language, what will happen if it turns out to be one??
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A little info on the language matter: When India pushed it’s demand of getting Hindi recognised as an international language, the first opposition it suffered was from one of it’s own states(you guessed it right a southern one!)
Another point: Mind you, the GoI spend crores just to have all the legal works translated in Hindi, there’s separate departments for these….. I don’t remember the exact figures but it was around Re. 38 croresper year!!!
Sajal
January 18, 2011 at 12:12 pm
that was a really good piece of info, frankly..i didnt knew that..moreover after reading ur comment i believe its the society that’s making things worse.. but tell me one thing “ek sarkari office mein,angrezi bolne waale ki baat pehle suni jaati hai kyunki woh “bada” aadmi hota hai…” if govt. spends so much, y are the officials still living a british era mentality??
ABHAY MAHESHWARI
January 18, 2011 at 4:18 pm
As per your “sarkari office” point, depends on the level of people you’re dealing with: a clerk would respond in a better way if you convince him in English, whereas the same might/ might not be true for say, a manager……..
Sajal
January 19, 2011 at 6:32 pm
well,we should be proud of our mother language…rather than chasing the most used language……
abhi
January 19, 2011 at 2:32 pm
well,i guess we should be proud of our mother language rather than chasing most used language….
abhi
January 19, 2011 at 2:37 pm
thats the case, we indians feel ashamed of our wealth, and advantage automaticaly goes 2 the english..they dont hav ne problem roaming around the world. english is served as platter for all meals for them..the reason being, they never gave up themselves for others,rather they took whatever possible..
ABHAY MAHESHWARI
January 19, 2011 at 4:52 pm
i would also like to know the reason..why not english.,,i know m sounding a bit “ajeeb” but we must hav strong reasons to support or neglect any intel..right??
ABHAY MAHESHWARI
January 19, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Man! So many nos!!!! Let me ask you a question though… Would you prefer to read Indian Fusion in English or Hindi???
anwesha
January 19, 2011 at 10:23 pm
there you go…great question..and i frankly say, its better in english..
ABHAY MAHESHWARI
January 19, 2011 at 11:16 pm
I was just stalking your blog when I came across this piece of work. Really liked the way you expressed yourself. You did bring out your point clearly.
As for my views, English SHOULD be chosen as the National language. Oh, not only that, this thing should be done worldwide. One might be knowing of the global village theory..one needs a portal to communicate. English just fills the gap. As I was looking up on the comments, I came upon this clear, strong point put up by ‘anwesha’, ‘Would you prefer to read Indian Fusion in English or Hindi???’. Precisely.
And as for the first comment, ‘(you guessed it right a southern one!)’, dang, you’d better not call yourself an Indian with that kind of discrimination and prejudice.
Aditya Kamath
January 23, 2011 at 11:16 pm
Buddy den hw ho we change the attitue of indians to start using hindi as our 1st language…..I can surely say dis tht u cn write/converse proper english but not proper hindi ……
Shivam
January 26, 2011 at 12:25 pm
Den hw cn we change dis trend buddy……cuz i can surely say tht u can converse / write proper english but nt proper hindi……..cuz english ws given a preference in skl…
Shivam
January 26, 2011 at 12:31 pm
English is our main official language followed by other languages that have been recognized by the constitution but terming any one language as ‘national’ would be inappropriate as ours is a country of great diversity.. it is the same reason why we don’t have a state religion.. because we respect everyone equally.. that is what makes us unique and keeps us united..
pankhuri pathak
January 26, 2011 at 1:10 pm
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ABHAY MAHESHWARI
January 28, 2011 at 9:08 pm
NO.
kritika
March 4, 2011 at 1:29 am
WATS THAT “NO”
shrivastava
April 18, 2012 at 3:55 pm
nice ideals! ur thoughts appreciated
idealistic
January 15, 2012 at 7:30 am
ENGLISH – INDIAN NATIONAL LANGAUGE ..PLS AGREE!!!!
shrivastava
April 18, 2012 at 3:54 pm
yes,we know that English is international language but on the score of this point we can’t change our mother language. don’t you know that in India most of people live in village they unable to speak English, now a question arises here that what has Indian (who unable to speak English)got to do with English.
mahendra jat
August 22, 2012 at 2:33 pm
Naahh.
Manvi Saxena
April 18, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Naahh.
Manvi Saxena
April 18, 2012 at 5:57 pm
no ways…
Mansi Gupta
April 18, 2012 at 6:13 pm
no ways…
Mansi Gupta
April 18, 2012 at 6:13 pm
why not?
The Indian Fusion
April 18, 2012 at 6:14 pm
why not?
The Indian Fusion
April 18, 2012 at 6:14 pm
No it is not possible that we should change our mother language. in india hindi is not only spoken in rural area but also it is spoken in parliament. some days befor i saw meeting of locksabha was broadcasting on television. there are lot of politicians they were speaking hindi that’s why i think there is no need to change our mother language.
mahendra jat
August 22, 2012 at 2:24 pm